OWNING WESTERN HISTORY: A Guide to Collecting Rare Documents, Historical Letters, and Valuable Autographs from the Old West
Missoula: Mountain Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 118pp. Illus. Fine in dj.
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HOME GROUND: Language for an American Landscape (Signed)
San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 447pp. Illus. Intro. Bibliographic Note. Index of Terms. Index of Places. The Writers. Signed (signed only) on the title page by both editors. A wonderful reference work that works as literature describing landscape with geological and other.....
BRITISH MUSEUM: A GUIDE TO THE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, ORIGINAL CHARTERS AND ROYAL, BARONIAL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL SEALS, EXHIBITED TO THE PUBLIC IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS
British Museum, London, 1864, 1864. First Thus. Soft cover. 12mo printed wraps. 32pp. Rather fragile with paper cover mostly split at fold, but archivally repaired. Back cover with some chips. Interior signature loose. Browning to paper. Scarce.
DICTIONARY OF INDIAN BIOGRAPHY
NY: Haskell House, 1968. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. 1st printing of facsimile reprint. Cloth. 494pp. Bibliography. First published in 1906. This book is a biography of people and history associated with INDIA, not American Indians. Fine. No dj, probably as issued.
THE INTERPRETER'S DICTIONARLY OF THE BIBLE (4 vols + Supplemental)
New York & Nashville: Abington, 1962. Hardcover. Various early printings. 4to cloth. Various paginations. Complete in 4 volumes plus supplemental volume. Bookplate of former owner in copies. Extraordinary compilation of information. Light wear. Near fine. Because each volume is heavy, there will in some cases be extra postage required. No.....
BOOK PRICES USED AND RARE 1993
Peoria: Spoon River Pr, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped 4to cloth. 613pp. Thousands of books cited. Your bookseller was a contributor. Fine. No dj as issued.
BOOK PRICES USED AND RARE 1996
Peoria: Spoon River Pr, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped 4to cloth. 798pp. Thousands of books cited. Your bookseller was a contributor. Fine. No dj as issued.
Hammond Ambassador World Atlas
Maplewood: Hammond, Inc, 1988. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped hardbound. No printing stated. 484pp. Thumb-indexed. a.e.g. (all edges gilt). Endpaper maps. Owner's signature on ffep. Fine in dj.
THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY The men & women who have shaped the world's destiny
New York: Dorset, 1990. Revised Edition. Hardcover. New Edition, Fully Revised & Updated. Hardbound. 256pp. A number of portraits & illustrations go with various entries. Fine in dj.
CANINE MASSAGE: A Practical Guide
NY: Howell Book House, 1999. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial wraps, with spiral binding. 190pp. Illus. Index. Former owner's signature. Vg.
WESTERN MEMORABILIA Collectibles of the Old West.
Maplewood, 1980. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated 1st edition. Padded "Classics Edition". Gilt-stamped 4to simulated leather. 256pp. Illustrated. Values (read 'em & weep) printed in text. One of the first books of the current boom in the field. Fine in dj.
A Dictionary of Superstitions
New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 1989. Hardcover. Cloth & boards. 494 pp. Fine in dj.
SHOGAKUKAN RANDOM HOUSE ENGLISH - JAPANESE DICTIONARY
NY: Random House, 1982. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Revised edition. Stamped hardbound. 3,048pp. Fine in dj & in original printed, excellent slipcase. Oversized.
THE LITERARY GUIDE TO THE BIBLE
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 678pp. Glossary. Index. A phenomenal resource for biblical studies. Fine in vg, pc dj.
THE FRANK T. SIEBERT LIBRARY of the North American Indian and the American Frontier
Sothebys, NY, 1999, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 4to gilt-stamped & applied label pictorial maroon cloth. 370pp. + 394pp. on glossy stock. Illustrated with selections from the sale, held on May 21 & Oct. 28, in both color & b/w. Index. Decorated endpapers. A superb looking set that will.....
A PRICE GUIDE TO VALUES OF FIRST EDITIONS, SELECTED REPRINTS, AND SPECIAL EDITIONS OF BOOKS WRITTEN BY JESSE STUART And Other Informational and Statistical Data 1930-1978.
BCP Publications, Chesapeake, Ohio, 1979. 1979. Limited First Edition. Soft cover. Revised Second Limited Edition, ltd to 500 copies. Small printed red wraps. 57pp. Fine.
DICTIONARY OF THE OLD WEST
NY: Knopf, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards, with sculptured design on front board. 399pp. Illustrated with drawings. Bibliography. Small rust or stain upper corner of fore edge, else fine in dj.
THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Signed)
Oxford, NY, 2003, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 260pp. Illust. Index. Bibliography. Endpaper maps. Signed & dated by Winchester soon after publication. A wonderful book to read, this is the author's latest book. Fine, as new in dj.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GREAT PLAINS
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 919pp. Illus. Index. A huge volume of information on the subject. Fine, like new in dj. Offered by a real flesh and blood bookseller, not some phantom with a boiler-plate listing that suggests the copy may ore.....
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