We Are All Fine Here (Signed)
E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. Berkley Signature, 2006. 1st printing in wrappers. Soft cover. Glossy pictorial trade wraps. 201pp. Signed & dated by Guterson right after publication. Fine, as new.
New Arrivals
THE LOCH NESS MONSTER AND OTHERS
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Yellow cloth. 228pp. Illus. Index. Endpaper maps of the Loch Ness, "Index-map of Loch Ness showing the various sightings described in chapter one.' This copy with an vivid, non-authorial several line presentation, including a colored pencil drawing of Nessie and a......
ROGER PATTERSON'S SNOWMAN BOOK: A Comparative Bibliography of Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist? (LIMITED EDITION!)
Renton: Gene W. Baade Books on the West, 2016. Limited First Edition. Soft cover. First Edition limited to 300 copies. Quarto pictorial and color glossy wraps. xxii + 90pp. Twenty-seven illustrations, many in color. The extended subtitle adds, "... including a commentary on book collecting and the significance of the.....
OREGON HISTORICAL QUARTERLY108 mixed 1950s - early 1990s
Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1960. First Edition. Soft cover. 108 Oregon Historical Quarterlies, a mixed bunch 1950s into the early 1990swith several duplicates. Vg condition overall; I don't see any "poor" issues. Will ship in three boxes. Total of shipping (well boxed/protected will be $50 - $60.
THE APACHES: Eagles of the Southwest
Norman: OU, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 389pp. Illus. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Fine in dj. Fresh copy as if just off the press.
SOLDIERS ON HORSEBACK: The Story of the United States Cavalry
NY: W. W. Norton, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. 141pp. Illus. Index. Fine in pc dj.
MACKENZIE'S LAST FIGHT WITH THE CHEYENNES: A Winter Campaign in Wyoming and Montana
Bellevue NE: Old Army Press, 1970. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint, first printing thus with new material. Silver-stamped cloth. 44pp. Illustrated, including an attractive double-page color print in the center of "Crook's Headquarters - 1876 / FORT FETTERMAN." One-page intro by Michael Koury, editor. Initially published in 1890. Fine. No.....
THE CONQUEST OF APACHERIA
Norman: OU, 1975. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Cloth. 405pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Couple of maps. Fine in very slightly rubbed pc dj.
SITANKA: The Full Story of Wounded Knee
West Hanover MA: Christopher Pub House, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Silver-stamped cloth. 194pp. Bibliography. A couple of maps. Fine in dj.
WAH' KON-TAH The Osage and the White Man's Road (Signed)
Norman: OU, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Decorated cloth. 359pp. Illus. Hand-drawn map of the Osage Agency in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, is printed on the end papers. Also, there is a folding map of the agency following p.40. Presentation copy to Bill ____ "with the hope that he will find.....
GROUP OF NINE (9) MOSTLY UNIVERSITY PRESS PAPERBACK BOOKS ON THE AMERICAN INDIAN
various: various. Soft cover. Trade paperbacks on the American Indian. Various paginations. 1: Davis, GERONIMO (Yale). 2: Prucha, BROADAX AND BAYONET: The Role of the United States Army in the Development of the Northwest 1815-1860 (Nebraska). 3: Boyd, CAVALRY LIFE IN TEND & FIELD (Nebraska). 4: John Stands in Timber.....
GUIDE TO NUT COOKERY: Together with a Brief History of Nuts and Their Food Values
Battle Creek: Joseph Lambert & Co, 1899. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Decorated dark brown cloth binding. The copyright page gives the year 1898 and the title page 1899. Either this is the second edition or second printing of the first edition, or the book was not actually published until the year.....
GUARACHA TRAIL: Adventures of an American Doctor Battling for a "Lost" Silver Mine in the Bandit Country of Northern Mexico
NY: Dutton, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 251pp. I've read a few pages of this book and it's a real good read. Fine in vg dj with a couple of short tears/snags. Unusual. Reprinted in paperback but scarce in the first edition.
THE ORIGIN OF THE COWBOY (Signed)
Jourdanton TX: Privately published, Village Printer, 1970. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 42pp. Illustrated with a couple of simple drawings. Short bibliography. Signed "Best wishes" by Parker. Parker, of Pleasanton, Texas, writes in an honest style about the subject. He relates that western author Jack Thorp was.....
THE STORY OF PARKER RANCH (Signed)
Kansas City: Lowell Press, 1976. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Oblong glossy pictorial wraps. This is NOT the limited edition. 39pp. Illus. Signed by Ornduff. Short treatise on the famous Hawaiian ranch. Near fine, perhaps a trace of smudging in a couple of spots.
HISTORY OF LINCOLN, ONEIDA AND VILAS COUNTIES OF WISCONSIN (binding copy)
Minneapolis-Winona: H. C. Cooper Jr. & Co., 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Leather and boards. 787pp. Illustrated with portraits. Index of leading citizens and at least a couple of family portraits. Index to biographies, which begin on page 206, in back of book. The first 205pp are histories of.....
KIT CARSON'S OWN STORY OF HIS LIFE: As dictated to Col. and Mrs. D. C. Peters about 1856-57, and never before published
Taos: Privately published, 1926. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Green-gray wraps with attractive SW Pueblo Indian design drawn by authority Kennety Chapman, which is reproduced on a page after the copyright, and which identifies it as signifying "wind and rain." 138pp. Illustrated with a number of photographs and prints.....
BOOTHILL GRAVE YARD: A DESCRIPTIVE LIST of the more than 250 GRAVES IN BOOTHILL
(Tombstone): Privately published, 1962. First Edition. Soft cover. Apparently the first printing of this interesting booklet. Tall pictorial wraps. 17pp. "In compiling this list, each history has been checked with all available sources of information, including relatives, old residents and the Arizona Historical Society." Fascinating item and the causes of.....
WAGHORN'S GUIDE -- BY RAIL, STAGE, OCEAN, LAKE -- AND POCKET DIRECTORY TO MANITOBA AND THE NORTH WEST
Winnipeg: Waghorn, 1909. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of this guide and directory, April, 1909, printed as No. 304. 12mo wraps with front cover sporting the title and several ads, and the back cover sporting one full ad. 160pp filled with all sorts of data. Bound in rear.....
THE MANLY ART OF SELF-DEFENSE
NY: Excelsior, 1886. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Wraps missing front cover. Back cover soiled & repaired tears. 79pp + 10pp of promos. Illustrated with 40 engravings showing various stances and blows of boxers. This is basically a manual of boxing. Donnelly "Professor of Boxing to the London Athletic.....
COMPENDIUM OF ANATOMY SANITARY SCIENCE AND EMBALMING
Chicago: The Trade Periodical Company, 1908. 4th Edition. Soft cover. Silver-stamped 12mo leather with marbled endpapers.112pp. Illustrated with several anatomical drawings of the human body. Last few pps present ads for publications from the publisher. Several lines of pencil writing mostly erased on blank page facing the title page. Penciled.....
FEATHERS: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle (Signed)
NY: Basic Books, 2011. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Cloth. 336pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Signed & dated by Hanson in year of publication. Not inscribed to anyone. This a book exploring the nature and use of feathers. Fine, like new in dj.
WHEN TIME STOOD STILL: The S. S. Dorchester's last heroic night (Signed)
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 109pp. Short presentation to Jack Cory, once editor of the Rhinelander (Wisconsin) Daily News, signed by Szymczak. This is the author's account, using the pseudonym of Johnny Westcott in the text, of his sailing on the troop transport ship.....
FIDDLE HILL: A Novel
NY: Crown, 1960. q. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 343pp. One of the classics of railroading fiction. We grade this copy good in a good dj, but it could easily be graded higher. Moderate wear to head & toe of spine. Dark area top fore edge of spine. Dime-sized.....
THE NEGRO IN MINNESOTA (Signed)
Minneapolis: T. S. Denison & Co., 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 215pp. Footnotes in rear. Bibliography. Index. Presentation signed by Spangler on ffep. The author was Assoc. Prof of History at Macalester College, St. Paul. Intro by Carl T. Rowan, Deputy Ass't Sect. of State, Dept of State.....