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NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 639pp. Historical novel about John Charles & Jessie Fremont. Some page corners (top) very slightly bend, else fine in vg dj.
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 639pp. Historical novel about John Charles & Jessie Fremont. Some page corners (top) very slightly bend, else fine in vg dj.
Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1920. First Thus. Soft cover. Disbound wrappers with covers missing and with text beginning as it should on (page 49 for Volume XXI Number 2) and ending with page 164 with it looks like a page or to missing. Lead article "David Thompson and Beginnings in.....
Garden City, 1973. 1973. Hardcover. No printing stated. 4to gilt-stamped pictoral cloth. 488pp. Illust. Fine in vg, pc dj.
NY: Viking, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 452pp. Illus. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Fine, like new in dj. Presentation copy signed by the author to your bookseller in year of publication.
Seattle: The Marco Polo Foundation & Bennett and Hastings, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Royal 8vo cloth. 270pp. Illus. Double page map. This copy signed by Rutstein and who further dated wrote, "September 15, 2008 / Marco Polo's birthday". Laid in is the publisher's promo sheet. The publisher provided.....
NY: Harper & Bros, 1849. First Thus. Hardcover. Blind-stamped decorative cloth. 235pp + 4pp ads. Signature of owner, Robert A. Bacon, three times, twice in pencil (ffep & t.p.) & once in ink (t.p.). Also ink stamp of Frederick Thompson, Mill Valley, on front paste down. In the middle of.....
Cleveland: International Fiction Library, 1915. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint, not actual date of printing. Red cloth. 345pp. Edited, & with a 19pp Intro, by Horace Kephart. Original title was Life in the Far West, which the editor calls a "thinly veiled romance" (hence this publisher?). Of course Ruxton is desired by.....
Norman: OU, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 114pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Table of Elevations and Geographical Locations. Fine in pc dj.
Lippincott, Grambo, & Co., Philadelphia, 1855, 1855. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint, without maps, in same year & with same imprint as 1st edition. Decorated cloth. 596pp. Appendices. Index. This edition recapitulates, to borrow Wagner-Camp-Becker, the earlier editions of the 1820 & 1832 expeditions of Schoolcraft to the upper reaches of the.....
NY: Review of Reviews, 1903. First Edition. Soft cover. Royal 8vo original pictorial wraps. Approx 253pp. Illust. Ads. This monthly periodical of new books published by major publishers included about 125pp of scholarly articles written by various people, & columns on different subjects. This issue's primary articles were written about.....
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 182pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Non-authorial gift inscription ffep. Fine in dj. Quite scarce.
Berkeley: Univ of California, 1909. First English Language Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed wraps.15pp. Front. "Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History" Vol. 1, No. 2. English translation of preliminary report of the occupation of Monterey, the first permanent settlement in Califonia. Minor loss of paper top of.....
Clarke, Irwin & Co., Toronto, & Weybright & Talley, NY, 1968, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Cloth & boards. 282pp. Bibliographical Notes. Index. The first Canadian edition, scarce thus. Fine in pc dj.
Bloomington: Illinois Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped cloth. 138pp. Illinois Wesleyan University - Reports of Major John Wesley Powell's Explorations: 1867 - 1874. Appendix: "Salt Lake City and Its Environs." Fine, no dj as issued.
Denver, 1965. 1965. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Ltd to 1,000 copies. Small folio (or large quarto, you choose) pict cloth. 84pp. Illustrations from the Journal of William H. Myers. Very nicely printed by Lawton Kennedy for Fred Rosenstock's Old West Pub. Co. Near fine copy with bit of wear to.....
Albuquerque: U of New Mexico, 1988. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of 2nd edition, revised & enlarged. Cloth & boards. 524pp. Illustrated with vintage photos. Index & extensive Notes & Bibliography. New Preface to the 2nd edition. The key biography of one of the most important & adventurous men of.....
NY: Harper & Brothers, Cliff - St. 1841. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Apparently the 1st American edition. 12mo printed paper over boards. 302pp. Folding map (with closed 4 1/2" tear). Map, "Map of the North-East Part of Siberia" is 10 1/5" x 15 1/2" . Cover information says volume is Harpers'.....