NY: Macmillan, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 531pp. Illus. Maps. Glossary, List of Explorers by Nationality, List.. by Area of Exploration, Bibliography, Index. Laid in TLS from the Assoc Editor of Terrae Incognitae journal asking for a review from the owner (book dealer George Tweney). Also laid.....
Nine Mile Falls, WA: Spokane House Enterprises. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial trade wraps. 248pp. Illus. Index. Presentation copy signed by Bond. A rather interesting compilation of short biographies of "Firsts" in the Pacific Northwest, by "Firsts" meaning famous and lesser known men including the likes of DeSmet.....
Flagstaff, 1976. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to cloth. 212pp. Illustrated by Wilson Hurley. Bibliography. Maps. Index. Donation bookplate from Northland Press on ffep. Attractively designed as usual by this press. Fine in dj protected with archival sleeve.
Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 254pp. Illus. Map. Presentation copy from the author to your bookseller dated in 2006. Fine, like new in dj.
Surrey & Blaine: Hancock House, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 176pp. Illus. Index. A couple of maps. Signed by Peter Byrne and also the photo editor, Chris Murphy. This book is the late Mr. Byrne's advice on "monster" hunting after decades of searching and exploration. We.....
NY: Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth. 144pp + 17pp. Illus. Index. Map. Silver endpapers; ffep with two numbers on it. Laid-in one sheet, folded, promoting the "Wellcome Chemical and Galenical Works and Laboratories, Ville LaSalle, near Montreal." Near fine. Unusual.
Vancouver: Univ of British Columbia Pr, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped hardcover paper over boards in two volumes. 296pp + 315pp. Index. Map. "One of nineteenth-century Canada's most distinguished scientists, ... (Dawson) ... began exploring and studying the virtually uncharted territory of British Columbia when he joined the.....
Wash D. C. Smithsonian, 1952. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed wraps. 164pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Two folding maps bound in of section of Pacific Railroad Office illustrating Lt. Warren's Report, and Bad Lands of Nebraska from draft by John Evans. Former owner's signature top front cover. Near fine.....
Mansfield Centre: Martino, 2000. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Quality facsimile reprint ltd to 150 numbered copies. Cloth. 311pp. Illust. Publisher: "It is safe to say that there is no more important history of the publications of the Lewis & Clark Journals than Cutright's classic account." Fine, as new; no dj as issued.....
Washington DC: 30th Congress, Wendell & Van Benthuysen, 1848. Hardcover. 5th issue. House Ex. Doc. No. 41. 30th Congress, 1st Session. AND James William Abert, REPORT OF LIEUT. J. W. ABERT, OF HIS EXAMINATION OF NEW MEXICO IN THE YEARS 1846-'47. Bound in recent cloth (ca 1950?), moderately soiled, with.....
Austin: Texas State Historical Assn, 1991. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing thus. Cloth & boards. 509pp. Illus. Maps. Appendices. Bibliographical Essay. Index. One of the great, scholarly books on this important subject. This edition features a new Intro by the author & "a pocket of five large fold-out maps not.....
NY: Knopf, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 656pp. Illus. Notes. Index. Maps. "Profusely illustrated with photographs, prints, and paintings and with numerous old and modern maps.'" An important companion volume to Goetzmann's 1959 Army Exploration in the American West. Very scarce in the first edition and in this.....
Pullman: Washington State Univ Pr, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 122pp. Illus. Selected Bibliography. Maps. Fine in fine dj.
NY, 1986. 1986. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Cloth & boards. 528pp. Illust. Maps. Bibliographical Notes. Index. Fine in dj.
Boston: Goodspeed's, 1940. First Thus. Soft cover. Original printing of Feb., 1940 issue of the Goodspeed's monthly publication. Pictorial wraps, about 12mo. (28pp). Illus. Four pages devoted to an offering of Bodmer aquatints, "Illustrations for the Travels of Prince Maximillian." The prints were separately listed from $3 to $20 each.....
Madison: Univ of Wisconsin, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 275pp. Illus. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Signed "In hearty friendship / (author". Fine in moderately soiled dj.
n.p. Privately Printed, 1991. First Edition. Soft cover. This Richard C. Hoagland booklet about the planet Mars, THE BREAKTHROUGHS OF CYDONIA. This is the First (and only?) Edition thus, printed April 16, 1991, so stated. Hoagland is associated with several publications dealing with purported structures built on Mars, centered on.....
Norman: OU, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 240pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Map. Christmas gift inscription to former owner on ffep. Fine moderately edgeworn dj.
New Haven: Tichnor & Fields, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & bds. 228pp (including 12pp historical introduction). A fine western historian speculates what Thomas Jefferson's canceled expedition to the Southwest would have discovered. Scholarly fiction that reads more like history than fiction. Advance praise from Dee Brown &.....
NY: St. Martins, 2019. ARC. Soft cover. Advance Readers' Edition. Trade pictorial wraps. 366pp. Bibliography. Maps. Publisher's promo sheet laid in. Fine, like new.
New York: Educational Publishing Co, 1910. Soft cover. No printing stated; original edition in first or early printing. Printed wraps. 31pp. Illus. Map. Vol. V No. 99 of Young Folk's Library of Choice Literature. Rather scarce it seems. Light stains front cover, front cover browning. Good copy nevertheless.
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 276pp. Illus. Endpaper maps. Custom bookplate from library of William D. Waltman. From Wiki: "In the early 1920s, Richard Marsh was sent by Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone to look for suitable rubber lands. He unsuccessfully explored the.....
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.....
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.....