Houston: Frontier Press, 1957. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing thus limited to 1,000 copies. Gray cloth. 112pp. Illustrated with vintage photos of outlaws & lawmen. Bookseller's label bottom of rear paste down, "OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS ... SEVEN BOOKHUNTERS. . . OLD CHELSEA STATION NEW YORK CITY..." Covers stained moderately, but dark.....
NY: Award Books, 1969. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial mass market paperback. 153pp. This is a non-fiction work compiling various research and reports from around the world, including the Yeti in the Himalayas, behind the Iron Curtain, Asia, below the equator, and the North American sasquatch, especially in.....
NY: Brazoria County Abstract Company, 1968. Revised Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of mass market paperback revised edition. Pictorial wraps. 265pp. A few illustrations. Maps. Index. Bibliography. Appendices. Gift inscriptions inside front cover. A Bigfoot, Yeti, and sasquatch classic. Bit of wear to extremities. VG. Somewhat common in mass.....
Colonial Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, 1942. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Lovely leather bound copy, the 1942 fourth edition of this classic colonial cookbook printed in facsimile. Small 8vo leather with raised bands gilt-lettered spine label. 276pp. As the very few copies of this 1942 are in paper over boards or cloth, this.....
various: Continental Oil Company, 1934. First Thus. Soft cover. Group of maps, booklet, pamphlets, & cards issued by Conoco - Continental Oil Company, the owner of which lived in Yankon, SD. Although some of this material MAY be later than 1934, the "Conoco Passport and Conoco Travel Club Membership booklet.....
Chicago: Concordia Lutheran Church, 1941. First Edition. Soft cover. Original booklet cord-tied in stiff wraps with flocked surface. Gold-imprint and illustration on front cover almost lost in the deep blue. (32pp). Illustrated with photos including photos of pastors who served Concordia which is located at the corner of Belmont and.....
NY: Splinter, 2011. ARC. Soft cover. Advance Reading Copy. Trade wraps. 543pp. Signed (signed only) by Houck. Fine, like new. Scarce signed.
Yakima: n.p., 1952. First Thus. Hardcover. Original Kingscraft Deluxe Covers yearbook with padded & decorated covers over boards. 120pp. Filled, of course, with class, staff, and activities photos, and with lots of student notes, best wishes and all that to the original owner which fill up preliminary and rear pages.....
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).....
Cove, OR: Reflections Pub Co, 1996. 1st printing in wrappers. Soft cover. 1st printing in wraps. Pictorial wrappes. 219pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Map of Pacific Northwest. Signed to (name) and "best wishes, Jon and Donna." "This is the first biography of (Vaughan), a colorful character of the Old West...
Seattle: The Mountaineers & Univ of Washington Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth.220pp. Illus. Maps. Bibliography. Appendix. Endpaper maps. Signed & dated on the half-title by Wood in year of publication. Not inscribed to anyone. Fine in dj with a couple of chips & some moderate wear otherwise.....