OKLAHOMA TREASURES AND TREASURE TALES
Norman: OU, 1976. Hardcover.
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GOLD FEVER (Signed)
La Mesa CA: Privately Printed, 1974. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 129pp. Illus. Signed (signed only) by Wilson. Historical survey of Jarbidge, Nevada. A good copy; corner crease to front and back covers noted.
GOLD AND SILVER IN THE WEST: The Illustrated History of an American Dream
Palo Alto: American West Pub. Co, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 287pp. Nicely illustrated with a variety of vintage photos, prints, broadsides, etc. Glossary of Mining Terminology. Index. Endpaper maps. This copy a good reading copy as the ffep and following page is repaired at the gutter/hinge.....
REFLECTIONS OF THE KETTLE RIVER REGION: Bodie, Curlew, Danville, Ferry, Malo, Toreda, and Surrounding Areas
Grand Forks BC: Kettle River History Club and Orris Press, 1975. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing, circa 1975. 4to pictorial wraps. 229pp. Illus. Map. This old mining area in NE Washington is a fascinating one. Very good.
THE PIONEER WOODSMAN AS HE IS RELATED TO LUMBERING IN THE NORTHWEST (Signed)
Minneapolis: Gov't Printing Office & Smithsonian, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 1/2 leather & cloth boards. 184pp. Illustrated with nice photogravures. Family copy with unusual custom bookplate on the front paste down of the author's son & daughter-in-law, Frank and Alice Warren, which has three half-tone photos on it.....
VANCOUVER BRITISH COLUMBIA: Its Parks and Resorts
Vancouver: Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Vancouver, B. C., 1920. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Original copy of 3rd edition, previously editions published in 1918 & 1919. Overlapping pictorial 8vo wraps. 70pp. Illustrated with half-tone photos including one tri-fold of Kitsilano Beach with bathers and watchers. Park Statistics.....
BURRO PICTURES: Photographs
Manitou, Colorado Springs: Gowdy-Simmons Press & W. A. Tracht, 1902. First Edition. Soft cover. Apparently the 1st and only edition. Only three copies found in worldwide libraries. Oblong cord-tied brown and maroon pictorial wraps, 7 1/4" x 10". Twenty-eight (28) half-tone photos of burros, most in humorous situations. Photos are.....
SNAKE RIVER HILLS
Moscow ID: News Review, 1975. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 56pp. Illustrated with vintage photos & portraits. A nice Idaho item of local history. Light ink stamp on lower cover of the owner & address in Walla Walla. Near fine. Scarce in any printing.
THE HORSE SOLDIER 1776-1943: The United States Cavalryman: His Uniforms, Arms, Accoutrements, and Equipments (4 volumes)
Norman: OU, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printings all four volumes. 4to blue cloth in dust jackets. The set was published in three different years: 1977, 1978, 1978, and 1979. Pagination: 195, 215, 268, 136pp. Illustrated mainly with black/white drawings, but with some color plates. Index. Appendices. We note that.....
THE HORSE SOLDIER, 1776-1943, Us Cavalryman His Uniforms, Arms, Accoutrements, and Equipments. Vol 2: The Frontiers, the Mexican War, the Civil War, ther Indian Wars 1851-1880 (Volume II)
Norman: OU, 1978. Hardcover. 2nd printing. 4to cloth. 215pp. Wonderfully illustrated mainly with b/w drawings, but with four color plates. Index. Fine in moderately rubbed, vg gj.
THE DEATH OF MERIWETHER LEWIS: A Historic Crime Scene Investigation
Omaha: River Junction Press, 2009. ARC. Soft cover. Advance Reading Copy. Trade pictorial wraps. 366pp. Illus. Appendix. Notes. Fine, like new.
DIGGER: The Tragic Fate of the California Indians from the Missions to the Gold Rush
NY: Crown, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 103pp. Illus. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. Fine, like new in dj. For younger readers, which often means adults will enjoy it, too.
ALASKA
Seattle: Superior, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 157pp. Illustrated with fine and descriptive photos bin color and b/w by the author-photographers. Endpaper maps. A vg copy, but has a mild vertical crease running all the way down the ffep, noticeable really only from the verso. Dj has.....
THE BOOK OF THE TONGASS (Signed)
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial trade wraps. 297pp. Illustrated with small drawings. Maps. Signed & dated by Snow in year of publication. Important book on this remarkable region on the Alaska Coast. Fine, like new.
THE SETTLERS' WEST
NY: Bonanza, 1955. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint edition. 4to cloth. 258pp. Profusely illustrated with great vintage photos, broadsides, & prints. Bibliography. A really great survey volume on the settling of the Trans-Mississippi West. Content on railroads, cattle, oil discoveries, logging, wild west shows, homesteading, gunmen, etc. Fine in good dj with.....
ANNIE OAKLEY AND BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST
NY: Dover Publications, 1981. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Glossy pictorial 4to wraps. 89pp. 102 b/w illustrations. The covers are brown, unlike the "stock" images online. Fine, like new.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Lynching of Florentino Suaste
Washington DC: House of Representatives, 1900. 1st printing in wrappers. Soft cover. Disbound original printed report HR Doc. N. 142, 56th Congress, 2nd Session. 39pp. "A report from the Secretary of State, with Accompanying Papers, in Relation to the Lynching, in LaSalle County, Tex., on October 5, 1895, of Florentino.....
OLD WEST ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES: Illustrated Price Guide
Austin: Great American Pub. Co, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial hardbound. 192pp. Illus. Laid in is a folded, 4 page price guide. Dated of course, but still an interesting record of values. The text is ample and informative, and the photos, all in b/w, are very good.....
LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR Transmitting, ... certain reports on the settlement of Oklahoma, etc.
Washington DC: U. S. Gov. - Senate, 1890. First Edition. Soft cover. Disbound original printed Ex. Doc. No. 33 of the United States Senate regarding the settlement of the land of the 1889 land rush. 30pp. This report relates, among other issues with the famous first land rush in Oklahoma.....
MASSACRED FOR GOLD: The Chinese in Hells Canyon (Signed)
Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 208pp. Illus. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed & dated by Nokes in year of publication. Fine, like new.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO 1891 ARBOR DAY PROCLAMATION
n.p. Territorial Governor of New Mexico, 1891. First Edition. Soft cover. 11 ½" x 18" (exactly 17 15/16") letter press poster on good grade of paper. Printing is a light maroon. A gorgeous broadside proclamation by Territorial Governor L. Bradford Prince, the proclamation issued on March 2, 1891 for a......
ARIZONA HIGHWAYS (2 issues from 1974, pottery and weaving)
Phoenix: Arizona Highway Dept, 1974. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st, original printing these issues, Feb. & July, 1974. 48pp. each. Splendidly illustrated. Two of the very popular issues that year devoted to art and artifacts, these two the pottery issue and the Southwest Indian Weaving issues. Five articles. Light rubbing.....
HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES: Centennial Edition
Wash. D. C. Natl Geographic Society, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing, stated "Centennial Edition." Folio gilt-stamped and pictorial blue cloth, plus portfolio, and both in custom slipcase. 287pp. Extravagantly illustrated with maps, photos, prints, etc. Bibliography. Index. Honestly, this is the most stunning modern books/atlases I've ever seen. Shipping.....
THE FRED MUELLER SADDLES AND HARNESS CATALOG NO. 60: 1932
Denver: The Fred Mueller Saddle and Harness Company, 1932. First Thus. Soft cover. Original catalog. Pictorial tan wraps. 120pp. Illustrated with all this company's products. "Stick to the Fred Mueller Saddle / Phone Main 1454," "Saddles You are Proud to Own at Prices you are Glad to Pay!" etc. Condition.....
THE NUSHAGAK DISTRICT OF ALASKA: Geological Survey Bulletin 903
Washington DC: U. S Gov Printing Office, 1938. 1st printing in wrappers. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed gray wraps. 96pp. Illus. Index. Maps. Charts. Both topographic maps are in the rear pocket. Owner's ink stamp in several places, "A. G. Burritt / Mining Engineer / Salt Lake City." The Nushagak.....