Richmond, B. C. Alcuin Society, 1973. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Copy #364 of 500 in gilt-stamped oblong cloth. 32pp. Beautifully designed & with a couple of pen & ink illustrations. Endpaper maps. On verso is glued the finely-printed bookmark paper slip of Burnaby Village Museum. Alexander traveled to the gold fields of.....
Norman: OU, 1945. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped cloth. 445pp. Illus. Index. Maps. Large folding map in back pocket. Endpaper maps. "Compiled by the Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration." Fine in spine darkened dj which is otherwise vg. A fine resource yet today.
n.p. Privately Published, 1962. First Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial 4to wraps. 128pp. Illus. Warm inscription on front cover by Anderson to C. C. Simpson. Also signed Mrs. Woods ("Mary"), Anderson's sister. Anderson, the author of the classic biography of Chief Seattle, had her 1962 world travels published from place to.....
Phoenix: Arizona Highway Dept, 1960. First Edition. Soft cover. 4to color illustrated wraps. 6 issues plus 1 specials: Nov.'58 (Gunslingers of the Old West), Aug '60 (Ghost Towns), Mar '69 (John Wesley Powell), Oct '70 (Cattle, Guns and Cowboys), Mar '71 (The Southwest of Olaf Wieghorst), July '71 (Glass Indian.....
Kenosha: Bain Wagon Co., 1913. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus. 4to pictorial wraps. 55pp. Illustrated with superb architectural - type drawings of the Bain Company's products & a few photographs making wheels, axles, etc. Index. Price listed printed for each product. We grade this copy good even though.....
Mount Vernon WA: Skagit County Historical Soc, 1971. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Tall, narrow, pictorial wraps, 4 1/2" X 8 1/4". 22p. Illus. Bibliography. Attractively printed with an Old West font of typography. Skagit County Historical Series, No. 1. Fine. Very scarce.
Camera Craft, S. F., 1947, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to decorated cloth. 324pp. Illustrated with fine b/w photos by the author. Gorgeous color frontispiece of Mt. Rainier. Maps. Contents are listed according to Western states. Folded route map in back pocket. This book, although dated in some ways, is a......
n.p. Tremont Dispatch and United States Mail Coach, 1840. Soft cover. Original "Way Bill From Brattleborough and Keene to Lowell and Boston." 8 1/2" x 14/ 3/4" WITH RARE TICKET (3/3/4" x 6"). Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western Lines of Stage. Three mild fold lines. The way bill is almost.....
Seattle: Alaska Northwest Books, 2005. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. 2nd edition. Pictorial wraps. 287pp. Illust. "Further Reading", "Distance Charts". Index. Signed by Brown. Fine, like new.
Chicago: p.p., 1909. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. 352pp. Illus. Index. fos on front blank page & red stamp of "T. G. Weston's Mexican Art Shop Mexico City." Nice original purchase provenance copy thus. Couple of small marks on front cover; near fine.
NYC: Grafton, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. 189pp. Mojave Desert, Ramona, San Juan Bautista, etc. This copy unread as some leaves un-opened. Spine-darkened, thus good only. Cowan p108.
C. R. Chisholm, Montreal, 1880, 1880. First Thus. Hardcover. 1st edition thus, greatly expanded from editions in the early 1870s that did not include the far West. 8vo royal blue cloth with heavy gilt decorations & titles. xii, 556pp. Illustrated with engravings. Contents. Classified Index to Advertisers. Index of Cities.....
Rockford, IL: p.p. & Bliss Printing Co., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorially blindstamped in green cloth. 91pp. Illustrated with the author's photos, mainly in b/w. Endpaper maps of Colehour's trips. Signed by Colehour on h-t. The hunting memoirs of the author in Idaho, British Columbia, the Rockies, the.....
Denver: A. B. Herschferld Press, 1972. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus. Oblong pictorial wraps. 51pp. Illustrated mainly in gorgeous color. 8 1/2" x 11". Maps. A lovely travel booklet for Colorado. Fine.
Yokohama: Yoshikawa, 1936. First Edition. Soft cover. Apparent 1st edition. Gold silk over paper wraps, with applied title label & bound with small cord. 203pp. Illus. There is an affixed postage stamp sized "stamp" on the back page & the page is titled, "Printed in Japan." The subtitle continues, ".......
Atglen: Schiffer, 2005. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Oblong color pictorial stiff wraps. 175pp. Profusely illustrated with vintage photos & prints of stagecoaching in the West. Short bibliography. A must for just about every collector of the West because the subject of stagecoaches was connected with just about every.....
Toronto: Little Brown (Canada), 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 239pp. A travel memoir by the author. Fine in near fine dj (small chip bottom corner). No longer common.
Crown, NY, 1964. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. 4to decor cloth. 328pp. Lavishly illustrated. Bookplate on h-t. Includes establishments both East & West. Fine in pc dj.
NY: Tudor, 1937. New Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 1,530pp. Illustrated appropriately with 400 b/w illustrations plus 12 color plates & two maps. Bibliography. Index. A massive amount of information! Fine in vg dj (clipped at all flaps corners possibly by publisher). Scarce in this nice condition with dj.
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial, hard leather-like hardbound. 208pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. "Here are the wagons, the trails, and the drivers -- Western Americana at its most exciting..." Fine in dj. Front flap has small red ink owner's signature.
NY: Hastings House, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 184pp. Illustrated with the terrific frontier transportation drawings of the author. the noted Western artist. Conestogas, Carts, Freighters, Army Wagons, Stagecoaches, & much more. Fine in dj. The latter is reinforced at the top of the backstrip with tape, which runs about.....
Seattle: Enetai Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 257pp. Illus. Maps. Endpaper illustrations. Foreword by Murray Morgan. Signed by Faber. Fine in dj which is faded at & around backstrip, we suspect typical for this ink, but otherwise with now tears or chips.
Monroe OR: Privately Printed, 1977. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of facsimile reprint printed in double columns. 4to decorated wraps. 108pp. One page Intro to this edition by Rodney McCallum. Small chip to top left of front cover, else fine. This reprint uncommon. W-C 85 ("... the best.....
NY: William Pearson, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Boards. 216pp. A tongue-in-cheek look at the early United States. Buy this if you want to laugh at 1830s humor. Bookplate of Arthur T. Hamlin Personal Library on front paste down. Hamlin was a noted librarian. Fair copy only: slanted binding.....
Norman: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1975. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Ltd to 200 copies of which this is #105. Cloth. 230pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Signed by Keith Lummis. The subject of this book was one of the truly important writers in the early Southwest of Arizona, New Mexico, & California. Fine in.....