NY: Pegasus Crime, 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 615pp. Inscribed to no one in particular, "Best bookish wishes / Otto Penzler." Fifteen short bibliographic detective / mystery stories. This copy gently read once. Fine in dj.
NY: Pegasus Crime, 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards.526pp. Inscribed to no one in particular, "Best bibliophilic wishes / Otto Penzler / Aug. 7, 2017." Fifteen short bibliographic detective / mystery stories. This copy gently read once. Fine in dj.
NY: Newcomen Society in N. A., 1957. Soft cover. 2nd printing. Cream-colored printed wraps with Newcomen emblem in red ink. 28pp. Illus. An address to the society by the former VP of the CPRR. Light soiling. Vg.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 338pp. A couple of illustrations. Appendix ("A Protocol for Encounter"). References. Index. Map of the Dark Divide. Warmly-written presentation on the half-title signed & dated by Pyle in year of publication. Also Pyle's signature on the title page.....
OKC: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1959. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st and only printing. Pictorial wraps. Pagination is pps. 272 - 391. Illus. Several essays: Ranching in the Choctaw & Chickasaw Nations, Family Life in Logan County O.T., and more, + supplementary material. Bit of foxing to cover margins. Good. Scarce.....
OKC: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1958. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st and only printing. Pictorial wraps. Pagination is pps. 2 - 112/ Illus. Several essays: Fort Sill, Indian Traders, Health Conditions in Indian Terr, Okla City before the'89 run, Law & Order crusader Thompson Benton Ferguson, and more, + supplementary material.....
OKC: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1948. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st and only printing. Pictorial wraps. Pagination is pps. 120 - 264. Illus. Owner's name in ink top front cover. Several essays + supplementary material including B. B. Chapman's on the Otoes and Missourias, and one on Panhandle cattleman Boss Neff.....
OKC: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1949. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st and only printing. Pictorial wraps. Pagination is pps. 2 - 135. Illus. Several essays + supplementary material. Front cover browning; back cover missing. Poor thus but still a reading copy. Scarce.
NY: St. Martin's Press, 2023. ARC. Soft cover. Advance Reader Copy. Pictorial trade wraps. 298pp. Bibliography. NO index. NO illustrations. However, laid in are three printed sheets from the publisher promoting the book. Two of these pages have photos of famous frontiersmen & Westerners: Custer, Sitting Bull, George Crook, Hickok.....
OKC: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1949. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st and only printing. Pictorial wraps. Pagination is pps. 342 - 452. Illus. Several essays + supplementary material. Owner's address stamp top front cover. A strip of foxing or exposure 3/4" wide across the bottom of the front cover; back cover.....
OKC: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1958. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st and only printing. Pictorial wraps. Pagination is pps. 114 - 230. Illus. Several essays + supplementary material. Light wear and foxing; doesn't really look fresh off the press, but no major problems. Copies now a little scarce.
Tucson: Univ of Arizona, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 163pp. Illustrated with drawings by Vic Donahue. Signed by Adams to no one, "Cordially Yours / Ramon Adams." An excellent work on cowboy words, slang, and phrasing. This is not a glossary but is written in narrative style.....
NY: W. W. Norton, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 308pp. Illustrated with drawings by James Ryan. Former owner's signature and address (Wagon Mound, N. M.) on front paste down. Somewhat of a Montana classic, "An Easterner's lusty, free-swinging life as a rancher in Montana's Tongue River country." Fine.....
San Antonio: Naylor, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 188pp. Illustrated with drawings by R. L. McCollister. Printed review slip "To the Literary Editor" from Naylor laid in. Also laid in is a folded t.l.s. (typed letter signed) from Gann on his Lakewood, Colorado letterhead to Robert Perkin of.....
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 342pp. Signed (signed only) by Binns on the half-title. A novel of the Columbia River by noted historian Binns. It "... has the refreshing effect of a cool, salt breeze blowing across the country it describes..." (from the dj).....
Lopez Island: Heron Moon Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial hardbound. 140 pp. Beautifully taken photos of working hands in company with all kinds of tools and items. Signed & dated by the writer, Graville, in year of publication. Fine, like new in dj.
The Branford Electric Railway Assoc., Short Beach, CT. First Edition. Soft cover. 4to pictorial wraps. 94pp. Illust. Endpaper maps. Slight crease extreme bottom corner of front cover & first few pages. Vg+.
Orange Empire Railway Museum, Perris, 1980, 1980. Reprint. Soft cover. Reprint. Light blue printed & pictorial wraps. 259pp. + (47pp. ads). Modern 1 page intro by Eugene Boswell. Reading copy; short tear closed on front cover; soiled; discoloration on back cover; several pages formerly creased at bottom corner; one leaf.....
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pittsburgh, 1972, (1924), 1972. Facsimile reprint. Soft cover. Facsimile reprint. 4to printed wraps. 19pp. Illustrated with photos & blueprints of interurban & other urban railway cars. Near fine. Scarce. 1972, (1924).
Interurbans, L. A., 1962, 1962. First Thus. Soft cover. 4to pictorial wraps. 72pp. Profusely illustrated. Map. Slight edgewear. Near fine.
Bonanza, NY, 1983, 1983. First Thus. Hardcover. Reprint, 1st thus. Oblong cloth. 152pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Appendix. Index. Fine in pc dj with rather long (2" and 3"), but long closed tear on front panel & also back panel. Nice reading copy.
Privately Printed, Forty Fort (Pa), 1978, 1978. First Edition. Soft cover. 4to pictorial wraps. 96pp. Illustrated with photos & maps. "This volume is the fifth in our series dealing with the street railway lines of Pennsylvania on a county by county basis." Fine.
National Tramway Museum, Printed by Jarrold Printing, Norwich, 1989, 1989. Soft cover. 1st thus? Colorful pictorial stapled wraps. (28pp.). Beautifully illustrated. Vg with slight bump top left corner. The musum, for folks like me who regretfully haven't been there, is in Derbyshire, England, "readily accessible", its website says, "from Sheffield.....
Lehigh Valley Chapter, Nat'l Railway Hist Soc., Allentown, 1964. First Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps, plastic spiral bound. 82pp. Illust. Diagram. Some spiral rounds missing, else vg.
The Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline, Pittsburgh, n.d. First Thus. Soft cover. Pictorial stapled wraps. 24pp. Illust. Attractive booklet. Fine. n.d.