Palo Alto: American West Pub Co, 1969. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing this issue, March 1969. 4to pictorial wraps. 64pp. Illus. Contains article, Part I, of Charles M. Russell, "Charles, Thou Art a Rare Blade," by William Ellsberg. Small crease lower front corner; slightly rubbed. Near vg.
Palo Alto: American West Pub Co, 1969. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing this issue, May 1969. 4to pictorial wraps. 64pp. Illus. Contains articles celebrating the centennial of the Pacific Railroad AND Part 2 of William Ellsberg's article on Charles M. Russell, "Charles, Thou Art a Rare Blade." Top of.....
Phoenix: Arizona Highways, 1950. First Edition. Soft cover. 28 original issues of Arizona Highways. 1946/1, 1948/1, 1949/1 and a duplicate, 1950/1, 1951/5, 1952/6, 1953/5, 1954/4, 1961/1, 1962/1. All in vg condition. This period features soft saturated coloring in AZ Hwy photo reproductions; just lovely.
Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Larger size 8vo gilt-stamped cloth. 237pp. Illustrated with photos. Frontispiece is color portrait of Arness as Matt Dillon in the long-running TV Western, Gunsmoke. Appendices. Index. Arness inscribed this copy to a John Waddell, and it is written in over-sized handwriting.....
Portland: Privately Printed & West Coast Printing & Binding, 1933. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Folio (10 1/4" x 13 7/8") subtly, but beautifullly decorated wraps. (32pp). Glossy stock. 12 b/w images (image size 8 1/4" x 11 5/8") by Atkeson with titles by Manly. This are snowy, winter.....
Phoenix: Arizona Highway Dept, 1969. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing of Arizona Highways issue July 1969. 40pp. Wonderfully illustrated, this issue devoted to Western artist McGrew. Fine.
Goldendale: Privately Published, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 496pp. Illustrated with vintage half-tones. Summary of Contents in the back. The classic historical survey of this scenic area of southern Washington State just above the Columbia River. Fine copy, as nice as you'll ever find. We have seen and handled.....
Summerland: Canada West, 1971. Later Printing. Soft cover. 3rd printing. 4to pictorial wraps. 183pp. Most attractively illustrated with vintage photos and the excellent drawings and remarkable hand-drawn maps of the author. Barlee was publisher and author of the much sought Canada West Magazine, a schoolteacher, and later MP of his.....
Summerland BC: Canada West Magazine, 1970. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial wraps. 192pp. Most attractively illustrated with vintage photos and the excellent drawings and hand-drawn maps of the author. Barlee was publisher and author of the much sought Canada West Magazine, a schoolteacher, and later MP of.....
Summerland: N. L. Barlee, 1970. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 6.5" x 8.5" quarto pictorial wraps. 100pp. Wonderfully illustrated with maps and drawings by the author. Barlee, a schoolteacher and later MP, and also producer of a ghost town series on CBC, was author and publisher of Canada West.....
Summerland & Langley: Canada West; Canadian West, 1969. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printings. Original wraps. In the Spring of 1969, British Columbia schoolteacher and later MP and Provincial Minister, N. L. Barlee, began publishing a magazine titled, Canada West. This attractively designed and printed publication was about British Columbia.....
NY: Hastings House, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. NY. Hastings House. Pictorial cloth. 312pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Fine in near fine dj.
Claremont: Blumenfeld and Associates, 1991. First Edition. Soft cover. Complete series of printed and stapled newsletters, bi-monthly beginning in 1991 and ending abruptly in 1998 (47 issues). Each newsletter is up to 20pp long and nicely printed on quality paper. Blumenfeld was, as I remember, and avid collector of the.....
NY: Knopf, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Royal 8vo cloth. 184pp. Illustrated with color photos by Les Line. Index of Common Names. Fine in virtually fine dj (couple of tiny smudges).
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 187pp. Fine essays on nature and life by the acclaimed writer. Fine in moderately worn dj with short tear closed.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1964. Hardcover. Early printing if not the first. Cloth. 350pp. Index. Fine nature essays by an acclaimed writer. Near fine in moderately worn dj. Rather scarce.
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 314pp. Elegantly illustrated with drawings by Peter Marks. Fine writing on nature by an acclaimed nature writer. Near fine in good dj. Scarce.
Caldwell: Caxton, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 401pp. Illustrated with vintage photos. Index. Endpaper maps. Published on glossy paper. Fine in lightly worn, pc dj.
Boston: Richard G. Badger The Gorham Press, 1920. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. 5th edition. Cloth. 221pp. Illustrated with the famous Montana ranching photos of L. A. Huffman. This copy has a 1921 Christmas gift inscription (non-authorial) marked out & a succeeding ownership signature written above it. Glued to the.....
College Station: Friends of the Texas A & M Library, 1994. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of Special Publications, adapted from privately printed item from the previous year. Oblong pictorial wraps. (8pp). Illus. A nice little Texas ranching item. Near fine. Hard to find item.
Colorado Springs: The Cheyenne Canyon and Seven Falls Development Co., 1908. First Edition. Soft cover. No printed stated, but circa 1910-1920. 4to, nearly folio, silver stamped title on black wraps. (40pp.). Illustrated with good quality half-tone b/w photos. First leave is a large folded double page photo of Seven Falls.....
Bismarck? n.p., 1961. First Edition. Soft cover. Original special issue newspaper issued Feb. 28, 1961. Publisher not identified but undoubtedly a major paper most likely in North Dakota, from the ads. 32pp. Size opened: 30" x 23.5" -- a huge paper. Many historical articles dating back to Lewis & Clark.....
Tulsa: Council Oak, 1985. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of the third edition. Cloth. 245pp. Index. Illustrated with new photos not found in the two earlier editions. This is the famous Oklahoma historian of the American Indian's tribute to her home town, Marshall, Oklahoma, and the pioneer era during which.....
NY: Gordian Press, 1969. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of the Gordian reprint. Cloth. 245pp. Index. Illustrated with vintage photographs. A new Preface was written for this edition by the author. Presentation copy signed by Debo, "For 'America Alive' / Best wishes to Mr. Linkletter and his associates. / Angie.....
Edmonton: Hurtig, 1972. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 226pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Fine in vg dj.