TRADITIONAL DRESS Knowledge and Methods of Old-Time Clothings
Summertown: Book Pub Co, 1990. Reprint. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps. 80pp. Illustrated with drawings & vintage photos of Native Americans & their dress. Fine.
Summertown: Book Pub Co, 1990. Reprint. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps. 80pp. Illustrated with drawings & vintage photos of Native Americans & their dress. Fine.
Washington, D.C. Natl Geographic Society, 1993. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of the buckskin leather-like 4to hardcover binding richly decorated in gilt. a.e.g. (all edges gilt). Silk ribbon. 399pp. Illus. Tribal Supplement. Index. Laid in folding map, "Indians of North America." Fine, no dj as issued. Scarce in this fine.....
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover. Early reprint of 1927 book. Golden yellow pictorial cloth. 242pp. Illustrated by James. Eight stories. In Frazier's bib of James' books. he found no Scribners' printings between the second printing of 1927 and a 1945 reprint. However, an Internet search turns up 1930 and.....
Naylor, San Antonio, 1968, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 107pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Notes and References. Index. "a vivid picture.. a pleasure to read." Fine in pc dj.
Toronto: William Briggs, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Maroon cloth with gilt-stamped titles & illustration. 468pp. Illus. Former owner's signature on the front paste down (slightly offset on the ffep when the ink was not yet dry). I cannot make out the signature, but it is very likely from.....
NY: Harper & Row, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 148pp. The story of Panhandle cowboy, Henry Blanton. Near fine in near fine, pc dj.
Democrat Print, (La Junta?), 1908, 1908. First Thus. Soft cover. Not a book. Original printed folder, 4 1/2" x 6" which opens to a cord-tied, printed & folded leaf. The cover continues to say, "Given by The Boys of the Eastern Range La Junta, Colorado Wednesday, December Thirtieth, '08". An.....
Norman: OU, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 370pp. Illus. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Inscribed by editor Wheeler (grand-daughter of Records) to B___ & M___. Artist Jack Wells dis a great dust jacket painting & he has also provided an original pen & ink drawing on the half-title.....
San Antonio: Naylor, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. 179pp. Illustrated with chapter head vignettes. Signed by Lamb. Fiction, but based of course on real rodeo cowboys. Cover corners bumped, else vg. Dj is slightly chipped and has a tiny label on the bottom.
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 280pp. Illus. Warmly inscribed by "The Author" to Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Irish. Frontispiece is portrait of Lampman on horseback on Lampman Brothers Ranch in North Dakota. Fine. No dj. Very scarce. Herd 1302.
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.....
Iola, 1920. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped cloth. 647pp. Illust. Spine faded (but gilt still strong & showing). Minor wear to cover extremities. Tight & good copy. Herd 1310.
Vancouver: Mitchell, 1968. Hardcover. 3rd printing of trade edition. Cloth with small gilt vignette. 58pp. Designed & produced with great bookmaking values. Most attractively illustrated with the author's drawings. Tipped in folding facsimile map of Western Canada & routes to the Klondike. Tipped in facsimiles of original documents related to.....
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. Fine in dj. Scarce now.....
Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to cloth. 128pp. Illus. Glossary. "Born in 1902 in the rugged ranch country of eastern Oregon, as a youth (Leonard) made his living as an 'oldtime cowboy'" In this book he writes of "his friends and family and especially of his work.....
Norman: OU, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Hardbound. 215pp. This book is Linderman's previously unpublished account, "somewhat fictionalized", of the Gros Ventre leader. Linderman "knew him, admired him, & mourned his passing." Fine, as new in dj.
Austin: Encino Press, 1967. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Royal 8vo pictorial cloth. 62pp. Illustrated by the publisher, William D. Wittliff. #27 of 750 copies, this exceptional copy with appreciation presentation signed & dated (1967) on limitation page by Wittliff to Darlyne Lowman, wife of noted Texas printer, bookman, & author, Al Lowman.....
Vancouver: Cypress, 1970. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Reprint by different publisher (Ryerson did the 1st in 1963). Cloth. 178pp. Illustrated endpapers. The author recounts the history of his family's "76" ranch in the Cypress Hills region of Saskatchewan. A ranching memoir at its best. Fine in slightly worn dj.
Phoenix: Phoenix Indian School Print Shop, 1953. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Decorated wraps. 216pp. Well-illustrated with drawings & photos. Abundant design plates. Fine.
Wash DC, 1962. 1962. Soft cover. 3rd printing. Royal 8vo wraps. 116pp. Illustrated with photos & drawings. Minor crease to back cover corner. Near fine.
NY: Studio, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Colorful pictorial hardbound. Unpaginated. Colorfully and cleverly illustrated by Sinclair. "CD inside! Features the Hit Song plus A New Instrumental Version." The ballad of Cow Tse-Tongue is a barnyard of laughs for anyone who looks with a jaundiced eyes at cows and.....
NY & Washington D. D. Harper & Row & Library of Congress, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st hardbound edition, 4to cloth. 228pp. Illust. Selected Reading. Index. List of Exhibition Items Not Illustrated. A sumptuous, well-produced book on the cowboy with lots of great vintage prints & photos. Material on Oklahoma.....
Saskatoon: Modern Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 248pp. Illustrated with nice chapter head drawings by William Perehudoff. The author wrote at least a couple authoritative books on western Canadian history, and this one is on ranching & cattle drives, mainly in Alberta & the western plains. Fine.....
College Station: Texas A & M, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 152pp. Illus. Appendix (Statistical Tables). Bibliography. Index. Fine in dj.
Texas A & M, College Station, 1981, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 152pp. Illust. Appendix of Statistical Tables. Bibliography. Index. Scholarly. Fine, as new in dj.