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.
Stillwater: Indian Territory Posse The Westerners, 1972. Limited First Edition. Soft cover. Unstated ltd to 500 copies. Pictorial wraps. 14pp. Illus. Fine. Scarce.
Palo Alto: American West Pub Co, 1970. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printings. Twenty-one (21) issues. All vg to fine. July 69, Sept 71, Jan 72, Mar & July 72, Jan & Mar 74, Mar, May, July, & Sept 75, Mar/April & Nov/Dec 76, Jan/Feb & Mar/April 77, Jan/Feb, Mar/April.....
Dallas: Banks, Upshaw & Co, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Dramatic pictorial cloth. 301pp. Illustrated with wonderful wood cuts executed by Creston Baumgartner. Fine. No dj.
Dallas: Banks Upshaw, 1950. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Pictorial cloth. 315pp. Really nice illustrations by Creston Baumgartner. Glossary. Index. Owner's address label on top of title page. A nice selection of writings by Barker, Dobie, Harte, La Farge, Bechdolt, Sharlot Hall, & many more. Fine. No dj.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Hardcover. Attractive gilt-stamped cloth with cover image surrounded by a decorated gilt emblem. 266pp. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. t.e.g. (top edge gilt). While not the first edition, probably a second or almost immediate printing. A California literary classic. Binding a little slanted, but still very.....
NY: Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Oblong cloth & boards. 220pp. Illus. An essential work for collectors of any of these writers. Fine, as new in dj.
Santa Barbara & SLC: Peregrine Smith, 1976. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 343pp. "Review" written inside front cover. "California - from the 16th century to the present - as seen through the eyes of writers of fiction." Tiny foxing spots fore edge. Near fine.
Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Silver-stamped cloth. 177pp. Frontispiece portrait. Neihardt was the fine poet laureate of Nebraska who expressed the history of the high plains in epic poetry & prose. This copy is an unusual review copy that has laid in a glossy.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. 366pp. Illustrated by Tom Lea. Appendices. This copy is inscribed by the illustrator & by 2 or 3 known individuals, but not by Dobie. On the ffep Joe M. Evans, noted cowboy author, has a nice six-line.....
Austin: Texas Foklore Society, 1946. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st separate printing. Printed wraps. 24pp. Fine. Uncommon. McV D36.
Boston: Little Brown, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 204pp. A collection of Prefaces Dobie wrote for other authors' books, & compiled posthumously by his wife, Bertha McKee Dobie. ffep (front fly) is pulled just a bit from the following page at the glue joint. But good copy in.....
Austin: Southwest Review, 1962. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing of separate edition. Royal 8vo green printed wraps. 11pp. The Dobies' Christmas Keepsake for 1962. Very slight fading. Near fine. Quite scarce now. McV D82.
Boston, 1945. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo decorated cloth. 285pp. A delightful book based on Dobie's residence in England while teaching at Cambridge during WWII. Near fine in dj that has a couple of narrow strips torn from the back panel (longest is 2 1/2" long & 1/4" wide).....
Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1924. First Edition. Soft cover. Gray printed wraps. (73pp) (pages 254 - 327). One of Dobie's earliest published writings, an essay in the Sept., 1924 issue of Chronicles of Oklahoma; Vol. II, # 3. At this time Dobie was head of the Dept. of English.....
Eugene: Lone Goose Press, 1996. Limited/Numbered. Soft cover. Broadside 10" x 14 1/4" limited to 100 copies, this copy being #38. Printed at the Lone Goose Press of Eugene, Oregon, and signed by illustrator Susan Lowdermilk & the great modern novelist of Montana and the Pacific Northwest, as well as.....
Evanston: Northwestern University, 1992. First Edition. Soft cover. TWO original issues of Northwestern Perspecive signed by Doig. Winter, 1991 on page 20 has a brief reference to Doig and the completion of his Montana trilogy. A portrait of Doig accompanies the notice and Doig has signed beside the notice. Issue.....
College Station: Friends of the Sterling C. Evans Library, 1992. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Small 4to pictorial wraps. 8pp. Illus. Friends of the Library Keepsake # 21. Fine.
NY: Knopf, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 228pp. Illustrated with several lovely woodcuts by Glenn Wolff. A classic book on Texas & its land. This copy with a gift inscription on the ffep; also an abrasion from an erasure on the same. Still a vg copy.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 346pp. A fine classic novel of the Pacific Northwest. Fine in worn but complete, good dj.
New York: Harpercollins, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 375pp. Illustrated with photos of Hillerman. Detailed endpaper maps of Hillerman country. Fine in dj.
New York: Harpercollins, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 528pp. Introduction by Hillerman. Signed by Hillerman on half title. Selected exerpts from dozens of writers both famous & little-known. Fine in dj. Scarce signed.
Norman: OU, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 432pp. Illus. Checklist of Rhodes Writing. Index. Fine in near fine (very slightly rubbed in a spot or two), pc dj.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY, 1951, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Narrow 8vo pictorial hardbound. 31pp. Illustrated with charming red vignettes & woodcuts by Tom Lea. Owner's name/address on verso of decorated ffep. "The Mexican legend about the (poinsettia) is the basis for this beautifully told... story." Vg+. The dj has a......
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Small 8vo pictorial cloth. 31pp. Illustrated by Tom Lea. Decorated endpapers. "The Mexican legend about the flower now known as the poinsettia is the basis for this beautifully told and handsomely illustrated story." Some edge browning to boards, else.....
Berkeley: Far Afield, 1953. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing in Autumn, 1953, issue of Far Afield. Pictorial wraps. (26pp) 2pp poem. This issue also includes "To and From a Forest" (10pp) by an "Amateur Forester," plus a couple of other poems & short essays. Of California interest. Vg. Scarce.....