WESTERN SPEECH AND WESTERN STORIES
Stillwater: Indian Territory Posse The Westerners, 1972. Limited First Edition. Soft cover. Unstated ltd to 500 copies. Pictorial wraps. 14pp. Illus. Fine. Scarce.
General Frontier
THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY IN BRITISH POLITICS
Clark, Cleveland, 1917, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Two volumes blue buckram with gilt-stamped spines. 358pp + 396pp. Maps. Special Bibliography. General Bibliography. Index. Subtitled: "A Study of the Trade, Land Speculation, and Experiments in Imperialism Culminating in the American Revolution". Ex-library. Several pages in the index portion of.....
THE NATIONAL TOMBSTONE EPITAPH The Historical Monthly Journal of the Old West - 1980s (26 issues)
Tombstone: Tombstone Epitaph, 1982. First Edition. Soft cover. 26 issues; newspapers. 20pp each. Illus. An incomplete run from May 1982 through June 1985. Missing 7/82, 12/82, 2/83, 9 & 10/83, 6 & 7/84, 9 & 10/84, 1 & 2/85. Normal yellowing, but in vg condition without brittleness. A wealth of.....
WONDERS OF THE WEST A Book for Young People and All Others Who Would Know Western America.
Dallas: Banks Upshaw, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. 219pp. Very attractively illustrated with color & b/w drawings, color plates of paintings (by Lillian Smith), & some terrific b/w portraits & other photos. Gift inscription on prelim. blank page. Upper cover corners slightly bumped. No dj.
THE MYTHIC WEST IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA
Lawrence: Univ Press of Kansas, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 319pp. Essays on Sources. Index. Fine in dj.
POEMS
Moorhead, Minnesota: Privately printed & Klenk's Modern Printerie, 1924. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed wraps. 141pp. Poems and ballads incorporating American West & frontier subjects and Christian faith themes. There is a reference to this priest-poet in the Catholic World. The binding is stapled & the covers have.....
THE PROMISED LAND: Settling the West 1896-1914
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 388pp. Illus. Maps. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Laid in is the publisher's printed bookmark specific to this book. Western Canadian Plains is the subject. Fine in dj with a couple of corner and edge tears.
THE AMERICAN FRONTIER.
Wash DC, 1958. 1958. First Thus. Soft cover. Wraps. 32pp. Essay on Turner's Frontier Hypothesis. Vg.
LAND OF SAVAGERY LAND OF PROMISE The European Image of the American Frontier.
NY, 1981. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 364pp. Illust. Vg in pc dj.
FOLK-SAY IV: This Land Is Ours (Signed)
Norman: OU, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 297pp. List of Contributors. Presentation copy by author dated in 1943. Botkin produced one of the very best, if not the best, collections of American folklore with his several books. Fine in vg dj; small chips. The large clips the flaps.....
WISCONSIN WITNESS TO FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER A Collection of Essays on The Historian and the Thesis (Signed)
Madison: State Historical Soc of Wisconsin, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 204pp. Illus. Presentation on ffep from author (using his initials) & dated 12/21/1961. Fine in dj, which is backstrip browned & has a closed short tear on back panel. Scarce signed.
THE WEST
n.p., 1996. Soft cover. Not a book. Long pictorial panel promoting the book based on the famous TV mini-series. This unusual paper over board promotional is 14 5/8" tall x 57 3/8" long. Folds have been created by the manufacturer so tha t it can stand as a square with.....
FAMOUS FRONTIERSMEN, PIONEERS AND SCOUTS, etc.
Chicago: Donohue Bros, 1883. Later Printing. Hardcover. Later edition, date not printed. Original edition was 1883. Decorative red, black, silver cloth. 540pp. Illus. fos & early price in ink on ffep. Chapters on Boone, Crawford, Girty, Finney, Adams & McCullough, Wetzel, Kenton George Clark, Capt Brady, Crockett, Houston, Carson, Custer.....
THE 1,001 MOST-ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AMERICAN WEST
Chicago: Swallow Pr, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 349pp. Illus. Index. Endpaper maps. Truly interesting questions & knowledgeable answers. Fine, like new in dj. Scarce now.
The Arthur H. Clark Company: An Americana Century, 1902-2002 (Signed) with Personal Reflections
Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Full gilt-stamped leather bound limited edition to 100 copies, of which this is number 40 signed by the authors. 300pp. Illus. Along with this volume is the matching 37 page booklet, "From Father to Son, and Once Again" signed numbered (#40).....
TRAVELS IN THE OLD SOUTH: A Bibliography
Norman: OU, 1969. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped red cloth in publisher's slipcase. 2nd printings, 1969. Vol I: The Formative Years, 1527-1783 (327pp). Vol II: The Expanding South, 1750-1825 (289pp). Vol. III: The Ante Bellum South, 1825-1860 Cotton, Slavery, and Conflict. 403pp. Indices in all three volumes. Required for any library on this.....
PIONEER LIFE PANEL POSTERS
Ideal School Supply Co., Chicago, 1935, 1935. First Edition. Soft cover. Not a book. Unusual ephemera. Four large (12" x 36" each) stiff & heavy paper panels with color paper appliqu�s. Each panel is folded. Included is a small sheet, "Directions for making". A larger (2/3 page) sheet, "Pioneer Life".....
IN THE EARLY DAYS ALONG THE OVERLAND TRAIL IN NEBRASKA TERRITORY IN 1852
KC: Franklin Hudson, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 12mo gilt-stamped green cloth. 125pp. Personal overland account to California in 1852 from Monroe, Mich., to Hangtown, Cal.. Ex-lib, but good reading & reference copy. "Cole took only three months to cross the continent. His recollections are refreshing for their vividness.....
REMNANTS OF A GENTLEMADNESS: The Stephen C. Blumberg "Library" of Americana
Cincinnati: Cowan Auctions, 1999. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing this catalogue. 4to pictorial wraps. 40pp. Blumberg was an infamous book thief. This catalogue is of 516 lots of Americana that went to auction because they were unclaimed. One page has notes in pen by your bookseller who purchased an.....
HOW TO WIN AN ELECTION and be a thoroughgoing politican
Grosse Pointe: Junto, 1976. Limited/Numbered. Soft cover. A printed memento, ltd to 100 copies, of which this is copy #3. 12mo pictorial wraps. (8pp). From the private press of Julius Goodman & signed by him. The frontiersman made this speech in 1836. Fine. Scarce.
WESTERN YESTERDAYS Volume V (Signed)
Boulder CO: Boulder Pub, 1967. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed stiff pictorial wraps. 93pp. Illus. Map. Signed by Crossen. Price on cover inked out. Twenty chapters of various Western history subjects: Deadwood, Mexican Border, Oregon Trail, Assiniboines, Steamboat to Montana, Railroader in Mexico, and much more. Fine.
THE AMERICAN FRONTIER: Pioneers, Settlers & Cowboys 1800-1899
NY: Smithmark Pub, 1992. First Thus. Hardcover. Attractive folio pictorial hardbound. 256pp. Profusely illustrated with vintage photos & prints. Index. Color maps for the endpapers. One of the most desirable modern pictorial survey books on the Old West. Recommended. Fine in dj (1" closed tear on back panel).
TALES FROM THE AMERICAN FRONTIER
NY: Pantheon Books, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth & boards. 443pp. Illustrated with silhouette drawings. Ohio Fever. Long Hunters. Backwoodsmen. Gold. Timber. Mountain Men. Cattle. Much more. Fine in dj.
THE LOOK OF THE OLD WEST
New York: Viking, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to cloth. 316pp. Nicely illustrated with drawings of various aspects of Western life. Bibliography. Index. A good general study of the West & its trappings. Abrasion to upper ffep. Owner's address label on same. Good in shabby dj. 6-guns 751, Herd 828.
ARICKAREE! Summer, 1962
Western Publications, Austin, 1962. First Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps. 64pp. Illust. "Eighteen features and a special array of authentic old-time photos..." Volume 36, #3. Fine condition. No mailing label.