OKLAHOMA foot-loose and fancy-free.
Norman, 1949. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 258pp. Illust. Debo cuts a wide swath through her home state: pioneers, Indians, oil, etc. Vg in worn, but virtually complete, pc dj. Herd 667.
Norman, 1949. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 258pp. Illust. Debo cuts a wide swath through her home state: pioneers, Indians, oil, etc. Vg in worn, but virtually complete, pc dj. Herd 667.
Girard: Haldeman-Julius, 1946. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed orange wraps. 32pp. Printed on cheap paper. Includes some outlaw accounts. Tide-line water mark lower front cover corner; still vg.
Stillwater: New Forums, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 174pp. A whole saddlebag full of stories about real people, places, and events, by the famous Perkins, Oklahoma, cowboy, Eaton, whose likeness is the mascot of the Oklahoma State University Cowboys. Fine, like new in dj.
OKC: Abalache Book Shop, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial cloth. Unpag. Signed on t-p by both author/compilers. On ffep is a gift inscription & on front paste down is 2' x 2" store sticker. A nice volume reproducing vintage post cards. Fine, no dj as issued.
Enid: Enid News and Eagle, 1993. First Edition. Soft cover. Original sections of Enid (Okla) News and Eagle newspaper celebrating the centennial year of the Cherokee Strip (Cherokee Outlet) Land Run. There are 5 newspaper sections with intentional sepia-tone front pages, each one presenting different aspects of the Run and.....
Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Heritage Association, OKC, 1982, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped cloth. 406pp. Illust. Index. Bass' initials in facsimile on title page. Bass, of Enid, Oklahoma, had a huge collection of books relating to Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, cattle trails, the Cherokee Outlet, & Oklahoma & the West.....
Norman: OU, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 363pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Maps, including folding map. A very important book by a master historian on the Southeast Civilized Tribes and others, including the Comanches, especially as related to Indian Territory. Near fine, lacking the dj. Rader 1429, Dobie p29.....
Norman: OU, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Red cloth. 455pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Folding map of Indian Territory from "A Traveler in Indian Territory," a book edited by Foreman. The back cover has a small white mark, but is otherwise fine. The dj is chipped with pieces missing (3/4".....
Muskogee: Mrs. Carolyn Thomas Foreman, 1966. Reprint. Soft cover. Lovely reprint of 1948 booklet. 57pp. Illus. Study by an important Oklahoma historian of the American Indian. Vg.
Norman: OU, 1953. New Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of the new edition of this title first published in 1932. Cloth. 415pp. Illus. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Former owner's name & date (1957) on ffep. A fine, crisp copy in near fine dj of an important scholarly work on the Five Civilized.....
Arthur H. Clark, Cleveland, 1926. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth gilt-stamped on spine. 349pp. Bibliography. Index. Illus. One map inside ((sketch map of Three Forks & Ft. Gibson). Folding map (Routes of Early Explorations & Expeditions). fos (J. B. Murry?) on the ffep dated Mch 8, 1926. One of.....
OU, Norman, 1971, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardbound. 212pp. Bibliography. Index. Map. Foreword by former Gov. J. Howard Edmondson. Very interesting material involving, of course, early Oklahoma politics. Fine in moderately edge-rubbed, pc dj.
Norman: Arthur H Clark, 2008. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped hardbound. 218pp. Illus. Map. Notes Bibliography. Index. Copy #6 of an edition of 200 signed by both Editors, who added Commentary & Notes. One of Oklahoma's "Favorite Sons", a cowboy, Spanish-American War Rough Rider, & musician (McGinty's Oklahoma Cowboy Band). Fine, like.....
Garfield Co. Hist. Soc., Enid, 1982, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto gilt-stamped & embossed, simulated leather hardbound. 1,120pp. Two heavy volumes with many illustrations, mostly family portraits, but also scenes, landscapes, buildings, etc.. There are some nifty and only-published-here photos from the cattle range days & early Cherokee Strip settlement.....
Trave-Taylor, OKC, 1939, 1939. First Thus. Soft cover. Printed wraps. 110pp. Facsimile reprint with new Foreword (1 page) of the rare 1890 booklet on Oklahoma City written by Geffs, with the pseudonym "Bunky". "No songs, roundelays or hot air blasts of poetic inspiration adorn the pages of this work", says.....
NYC and Chicago: Lewis, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Beautifully rebound in three-quarter leather and cloth with gilt titles (slightly flaked) on spine and with new endpapers. 956pp. 100 photogravure portraits plus several other photos. A. E. G. (all edges gilt). Originally owned by and with the signature (three.....
Naylor, San Antonio, 1969, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial hardbound. 211pp. A memoir with many references to the early days of Oklahoma as well as mid-century. Fine in dj with 1" hole in the backstrip & worn at the edges.
Ardmore: Bunn Brothers, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Decorated green cloth. 178pp. Illustrated. Index. Maps. 10" x 13 1/2" color folding map of the State of Oklahoma. The author was Professor of Geology at the State University of Oklahoma and Director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey. A fine copy.....
NY: Doubleday, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 338pp. Illus. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. Endpaper maps of Osage County, Oklahoma. Signed by Grann on a preliminary tipped-in page. Some collectors exclusively prefer author signatures directly on the title page or fly leaf. If you have a somewhat wider.....
Norman: OU, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 294pp. Illus. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Please note the flaw to the following signatures: Green inscribed the book to "my good friend and fellow OHS (Okla Hist Soc) Board Member (name given) -- it is an 8 line inscription. On the verse the same.....
Levite of Apache, Norman, various publication dates, 1987. First Edition. Soft cover. This special offering is a labeled box containing 8 booklets published by Levite of Apache. It was prepared in 1889 at the time of the centennial of the run into Old Oklahoma, the Unassigned Lands. It contains also.....
N.p., (2004), 2004. Reprint. Soft cover. Reprint (not facsimile). Stapled wraps. 56pp. Names, addresses, & occupations of the citizens who inhabited Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, about a year after the run into Old Oklahoma. Alphabetically listed by name. Includes lawmen William Tilghman (saloon) and E. Dumas Nix (grocer). Fine.
Norman: OU, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Hardbound. 207pp. Illus. Intro by Ramon Adams. Bibliography. A Western Frontier Library original title. Well received bio of the famous Oklahoma outlaw. Fine in fine dj. 150 #65, 6-guns 917.
Norman: OU, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Hardbound. 207pp. Illus. Intro by Ramon Adams. Bibliography. A Western Frontier Library original title. This copy with a 1995 presentation on a preliminary page from Hanes to R__ & P____ N_____ for being good friends to his son. Well received biography of.....
Houston: Frontier, 1954. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing in booklet form; originally published in 1898 in the author's huge book on Ft. Smith. Wraps. 56pp + photos (7pp). Quite small stain upper corner, else fine. 6-guns 928.