Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth and boards. 321pp. Index. Chapter head vignettes. Long considered one of the better cowman autobiographies; Northern Plains: Nebraska, South Dakota. This book won the 1970 Spur Award of the Western Writers of America. Mark on lower front cover.....
NY: Knopf, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Cloth with gilt pictorial image. 279pp. Illus. Map by Jose Cisneros. Dj painting by Peter Hurd & Intro by him, also. The former owner's address sticker is on the front paste down, and his wife wrote a lovely Father's Day inscription on.....
Caldwell: Caxton, 1948. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Edition limited to 1,000, this copy #670 and signed by the author. Cloth. 366pp. Illus. Maps. Bibliography. Index. "Edited and arranged by E. A. Brininstool." Slight bump to edge of front board, else fine in near fine, pc dj. THIS COPY HAS BOTH THE PLAIN.....
Lincoln: U of Nebraska, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 221pp. Illus. Endpaper maps. Memoirs of the upper Niobrara cow country in Nebraska by the son of Capt. James H. Cook whose own book, Fifty Years on the Old Frontier, is a classic. Fine in near fine, pc dj.....
Columbus MT: Stillwater Sun, 1989. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial wraps. 134pp. Illustrated. Signed by Abarr. A nice Montana cattle item. Vg.
Mesa AZ: Privately Printed, 2004. Revised Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing of Revised Edition. 4to pictorial glossy wraps (glue bound). 169pp. Illus. Map(s). Signed by the author/compiler. A well-illustrated book on an Arizona ranch family. Fine. Scarce.
Stillwater: Redlands Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Hardbound. 177pp. Appendices. Index. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of C V Rogers & photo of the Rogers' home ranch house. Will Rogers, Jr., once noted that this was the best book on his grandfather, "carefully researched, accurate and it give a......
Austin: Univ. of Texas, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial cloth in photo-pictorial slipcase. 112pp. Illustrated in several dozen plates with the simply truthful & wonderful b/w - sepia cowboy photographs of Smith, who was recently written-up in True West Magazine. Pictorial endpapers. Signed by Haley on the.....
n.p. n.p, 1900. First Edition. Soft cover. Printed wraps. 80pp. + 3pp index. No editor or publisher. No date of publication. This is a rare little item containing quite an assortment of ballads, hymns, and songs, many of them tearjerkers such as "She is More to be Pitied than Censured,".....
Goldendale: Klickitat County Historical Soc, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped 4to cloth. 520pp. Illus. Index. Ads. The paste downs present 198 Klickitat cattle and horse brands; free endpapers (flyleaves) list them. Family histories and community history of this county in Washington State bordering the Columbia River. One cover.....