New Hope PA: Tompkins Wild West, 1912. Original. Soft cover. This two page letter appears to be a carbon copy but is on letterhead and not blank sheet although the letterhead paper is thin. It is unsigned. Dated August 10th with the cancelled envelope dated Mar 5 -12. I cannot.....
Alexandria: Time Life, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Twenty-three volume set of this fine series on the American Indian. 20 of the 23 volumes are first printings. 4to pictorial fabrikoid. Published in the 1990s. Various paginations. Illustrations. Indices. Bibliographies. The three second printings are: The Spirit World, The First Americans, and.....
Missoula: Morton John Elrod, Press of the Missoulian Publishing Co, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth. 304pp. Illus. Owner's name & address on ffep. "The stories which make up this little book were written originally for The Missoulian and for a year constituted a feature of the.....
NY: Beaufort Books, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 318pp. A fine account of ranching in the Chilcotin country of interior British Columbia. Vg in vg dj which has a mark on the back panel and the label of Wit's End Bookstore.
NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 613pp. Illus. Notes. Index. Maps. Fine, like new in dj.
Ft. Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1986. Heinzen, Steve (Edit.). 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth with gilt-stamped spine titles. 339pp. Illustrated with an abundance of fine plates, over 150, of Gilpin's photographs taken in Navajoland. Checklist of the Exhibition at the Amon Carter, Appendix: Chronological Bibliography, Notes. Index. I......
L. A. Rounce and Coffin Club, 1938. First Thus. Soft cover. Stapled wrappers, most decorated. Forty-eight (48) Rounce and Coffin Club annual exhibition booklets. Each one presents a number of books of Western Americana deemed exceptional for the year in question by the club, and exhibited at the club. Each.....
Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, 1968. First Edition. Soft cover. Original issue of the Gilcrease Museum American Scene magazine. 4to pictorial wraps. 24pp. Illus. A beautiful production about the great Western, Northern, and wildlife artist. Fine. Scarce.
Saanichton & Seattle: Hancock House Pub Ltd, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 182pp. Illus. Signed by Roger along with a general, "best wishes." The author was born on the Cruikshank Ranch in Alberta. Her life after marriage continued on the "huge Chilco Ranch in the Chilcotin region of.....
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to red cloth with Von Schmidt piece in stamped in black. 239pp. Amply illustrated with the work of the artist in color and black and white. In the back is Summary, Civil Affairs, Sculpture, Bibliography. Fine, like new in dj.
London: R. C. Power, 1897. First Edition. Soft cover. Original one page (folded) printed document apparently issuing a stock split group of shares between the "Old Company" and the "New Company." Dated February 12, 1897, this company, located in London, England, exchanged for the owner 460 share in the old.....
LA: Friends of the UCLA Library, 1957. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed wraps. 4pp. A wonderful short essay -- a speech given by the great librarian and lover of books, Powell, to a conference of librarians in California. Fine copy.
LA: Clark Memorial Library & Ward Ritchie, 1966. 1st printing in wrappers. Soft cover. 1st printing of the wrappers binding of the book. Decorated wraps. 46pp. Laid in is a narrow slip finely printed crediting the underwriters of this work and given to those attending a convocation honoring Powell in.....
Davis: Univ of California, Davis, 1970. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Limited to 850 copies. Lovely printed wraps with woodblock illustration on the cover. 16pp. Keepsake Number 3 issued by Library Associates of the University Library, Davis. Reading Powell is always a wonderful experience. What a writer he was! Fine copy.....
n.p: n.p., 1910. Soft cover. This real photo post card (RPPC) of an unidentified mounted cowboy has a classic look it to it, and he is well appointed, as is his horse. This is a generic divided back post card with no stamp block. On the back of the card.....
Billings: Yellowstone County Democratic Central Committee, 1970. Original. Soft cover. Original program. Flocked deep blue wraps, stapled, gilt-stamped. (8pp). Frontispiece photograph of Senators Mike Mansfield and John Melcher in collage with U. S. Capitol & another location. Contains: list of sponsors and contributors, Note of Appreciation by Chairman Ralph Bond.....
n.p. M K & T RR, 1904. Original. Soft cover. A very nice if cancelled engraved stock certificate issued by the M, K, and T (the "Katy") railroad appropriately mounted and framed and under glass. Fifteen shares issued in 1905 to De Coppet & Co. Frame size 12" x 16.....
Ottumwa: P B L, Limited, 2014. q. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to glossy pictorial wraps. 85pp. Illus. Wapello, "the county's namesake -- chief of the confederated tribes of Sac and Fox and the successor of Chief Black Hawk of Black Hawk War fame." Fine.
Flagstaff: Northland, 1962. 1st printing in wrappers. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 186pp + full page plates in rear. Illustrated with stunning color photography in the old, somewhat "soft" style before razor-sharp digital photography. The subject matter is the Colorado River with many of the images dedicated to the country.....
San Carlos: Nourse, 1949. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Colorful pictorial wraps. 24pp. Illustrated with fine drawings by Lea. Perhaps a bit soiled or slightly dark at the cover edges, but near fine.
Denver: Old West Publishing Co, 1962. Limited Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the Fred Rosenstock's Old West publishing company, limited to 999 copies finely designed & printed by the great El Paso printer, Carl Hertzog. Introduction by the equally great bookman and range authority, Jeff Dykes, who entertained me and.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Decorated cloth. 271pp. Index. Slight toning to endpapers, else fine in a good, unclipped dj with some chips and wear to extremities. Scarce now in a dj.
Minneapolis: T. S. Denison & Co., 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 232pp. Bibliography. Index. Endpaper maps. Fine in vg pc dj which has some shelf rubbing on the back panel.
NY: Rinehart & Co, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of the American edition. Red cloth with blindstamp of the publisher on the front cover. 368pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Former owner's signature on ffep and some penciled notes on the same. Stewart Holbrook's long review in the New York Herald.....
Phila: Chilton, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 303pp. A lovely, short, non-authorial gift inscription from "Grandpa" to "Davy" on ffep. Two Deseret Book Company stickers on rear free endpaper. Short stories by a fine Western fiction writer. Vg copy in dj with tiny spot on front panel. Dj.....