MESA LAND: The History and Romance of the American Southwest
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933. Hardcover. Later, unstated printing. Cloth. 235pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Tiny rub on bottom edge, else fine in chipped dj.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933. Hardcover. Later, unstated printing. Cloth. 235pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Tiny rub on bottom edge, else fine in chipped dj.
La Jolla: Prospect Avenue Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 113pp. Illus. Presentation inscription on ffep signed and dated by Jeffrey in 1973. Near fine copy, but we note the minor distraction of browning along the gutter of the free endpapers and facing pps as two leaves.....
Phoenix: Heritage Pubs, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to Hardbound. 349pp. Illustrated with vintage photos & prints. Extensive Bibliography. Index. Presentation copy by the author to actress & singer Audrey Meadows (The Honeymooners' Alice Kramden) signed & dated in 1991. "Best wishes to Audrey -- a great little actress -- Jean.....
NY: MacMillan, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Orange cloth with black stamping. 387pp. Illus. Index. Presentation copy on ffep but recipient not named. "Your sincere friend / Frank C. Lockwood / Tucson, Arizona / Oct 12, 1932." This one of the best books on Arizona pioneering history. A former.....
NY: J. J. Augustin, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial paper over boards. 121pp. Illus. Illustrated folding map in back pocket, "Reg Manning's Cartoon Map of Arizona". Unique copy with a neat original drawing in green ink by Manning on title page extending over to facing page. It is.....
NY: William Morrow & Co, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth & boards. 1st printing. 480pp. Illus. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Block edges have soiling & some stain - but not intruding onto pages. Lower front corner bumped. Slightly edgeworn, soiled dj.
NY: Hastings House, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 59pp. Illustrated with fifty very nice b/w portraits of Arizona Indians presumably taken by the author. Photo pictorial endpapers. Vg in vg dj which is browned on part of the reverse, but clean on the visual side. Uncommon.
Privately Published, n.p., (1939), 1939. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. 2nd edition (Fray Marcos Edition). Pictorial wraps. 151pp. Nice b/w illustrations. Full page inscription by Murdock (1942) to the wife of a judge (unnamed). Material on Father Kino, Juan Anza, Padre Garces, James Pattie, Cochise, Charles Poston, Al Sieber, John Clum.....
Phoenix: Arizona Highway Dept, 1974. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st, original printing these issues, Feb. & July, 1974. 48pp. each. Splendidly illustrated. Two of the very popular issues that year devoted to art and artifacts, these two the pottery issue and the Southwest Indian Weaving issues. Five articles. Light rubbing.....
Flagstaff: KC Publications, 1968. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed gray wraps. 26pp. Portrait of Barboncito. Faded along the spine both front and back covers. Good copy thus.
S.F. Privately Published, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped pictorial hardbound. 133pp. Illus. Small ink vignette stamped on ffep. Lower corner margin of front cover illustration with reddish ink applied to cloth, almost as though done at the bindery. Else near fine. No dj.
(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.....
Austin: Eakin Pr, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Simulated leather hardbound. 222pp. Illust. Appendices: "The Ranger Roster", "Arizona Ranger Legislation". Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. Well-written & researched history of the rangers 1901 - 1909. Virtually fine in dj. Couple of dimples in dj; almost unnoticable superficial line mark on front cover. Very.....
Tucson, 1973. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped cloth. 207pp. This bib includes 2,060 non-fiction entries about Arizona. Fine in lightly soiled & slightly torn dj. Top of dj near backstrip has been reinforced with what appears to be archival tape.
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Oblong silver-stamped cloth. 64pp. Illus. A well-written piece by the great Southwest librarian. Affixed on the front paste down is custom-printed label from Northland Press saying this book was donated. Fine in good dj. The latter has some white wear spots.....
Douglas, Ariz: Cochise County Historical and Archaeological Society, 1982. First Edition. Soft cover. Oblong pictorial wraps. 32pp. Illustrated with some truly fine vintage ranching photos. Vol 12 #1 of The Cochise Quarterly. Informative text. Former owner's address label inside front cover. A card referencing Jeff Dykes catalogue is neatly attached.....
Lund MN & Bisbee AZ: Privately Printed, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 323pp. Illust. The author, born in Norway, came to the U.S. & after achieving a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1903, came to Bisbee. This book is his life in "The Copper Capital of the Southwest" & his.....
n.p. AT & SF, 1948. First Thus. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps. (32.pp). Illus. "Souvenir Chicago Railroad Fair - Summer 1948." Illus. 2pp map: "Arizona and New Mexico showing Indian Reservations and Principal Groups of Ruins". Vg, attractive booklet.
Chicago: Santa Fe & R. R. Donnelley, 1948. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing of the Summer 1948 booklet. Small (5/1/4" x 7 1/2") pictorial wraps. (32pp). Artist isn't given, but the color print on the front cover is a nice one; illustrations inside are monotoned. Contains double-page map of.....
Tucson: Univ of Arizona, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. 140pp. Illus. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Map. Fine, no dj (probably as issued). 6-guns 1963.
Naylor, San Antonio, 1973, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial hardbound. 90pp. Signed & dated by Seibold. Laid in is is a double sided, folded, publisher's promo. The author was a "well-known cattleman.. near Patagonia." Nice Arizona cattle book. Fine in dj.
LA: Skelton, 1926. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing in wraps, published in February, 1926, in same year as the hardcover edition. Elaborately decorated front cover has as centerpiece "Geronimo - War Chief of the Apaches". He is on horseback. 215pp. Bottom corner of rear blank page has label of.....
Tucson: Arizona Pioneers Hist. Soc. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 325pp. Illus. Foreword by Frank C. Lockwood. A carefully written memoir of a remarkable man who was born in Yorkshire, came to the U. S. and was a cowboy in Kansas & Texas, then to Arizona where he.....
NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. True 1st printing with the appropriate dj flap price & ISBN on back cover. NOT the bc edition even though the book was a HBC choice, as noted on the dj. Hardbound. 403pp. Illus. Notes & Sources. Bibliography. Index. A highly.....
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 325pp vol 1 & 323pp vol 2. Appendices. Sources. Indices. Maps. Signed by Terrell (signed only) on ffep of both volumes. Volume One: "The California-Arizona Controversy." Volume Two: "Above Lee's Ferry-The Upper Basin." Both volumes fine in dj. Scarce.....