Sacramento: A. G. Lee, 1915 (December). First Thus. Original wrappers. 48 pp. Original red stapled wrappers with numerous advertisements. 3" x 5 1/2". Two page map of Sacramento, California. "Merry Christmas To All" on front cover. Numerous advertisements and articles for local businesses throughout. Guide to Sacramento sights of interest..... More
New York: A. Wittemann, 1897. Boards. This is an ORIGINAL booklet of period illustrations from photographs of Sacramento, California, in 1897. Photographs include the Capitol Building, the Senate Room, the Post Office, Sacramento River and Sutter's Fort, among others. Unpaginated (but 36 pages). 5" x 7". Black boards with silver..... More
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1966. First Thus. Cloth. 87 pages. Map Endpapers. Illlustrated primarily from vintage woodcuts. Facsimile of March 3, 1858 front page of the Nevada (City) Democrat, containing the story of the execution of Major Bolin laid in. Soiled plain paper mailing dust wrapper in mylar sleeve is..... More
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. First Thus. Cloth. 110 pages. Introduction by GeorgeStewart. Illustrated primarily from vintage drawings. Map front endpapers; Loose folded map laid in at rear. Edition limited to 1400 copies, of which this is an un-numbered copy. 7 1/4" x 11". Tan cloth with gilt spine titling..... More
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. First Thus. Cloth. 110 pages. Introduction by GeorgeStewart. Illustrated primarily from vintage drawings. Map front endpapers; Loose folded map ("Western Territories In The Forties") laid in at rear. Edition limited to 1400 copies, of which this is #903. 7 1/4" x 11". Tan cloth with..... More
Columbus, Missouri: The Author, 1906. First Edition. Cloth. 398 pp. Illustrated primarily from vintage photographic portraits. Orignal maroon cloth; gilt titling. Octavo. Plain white custom dustjacket in clear mylar protectve sleeve. Per Adams, Six-Guns 283: "A book different from all the others dealing with the James and Younger brothers, and..... More
NP: Self Published, 1958. First Edition. Original wrappers. 153 pp. Illustrated. Folding map in rear. Bibliography. Index. Original yellow wrappers. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4". Scarce. The well-documented history of a complicated land dispute between settlers and the Southern Pacific Railroad, which culminated in a deadly shoot-out which took place..... More
Ann Arbor: University of New Mexico Press, 1969. First Edition. (xxi) 419 pages. First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Cloth. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Illustrated, including a few drawings by Browne. One of the unique characters of the American West, J. Ross Browne was a custom-house inspector, Indian agent, writer..... More
New York: Liveright, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. (xxv) 591 pages. First Trade Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Custer historian John M. Carroll in brown ink on the title page, "To the Campions with my personal regards / John M. Carroll". Illustrated dust jacket. 7 1/2" x 10". Brown cloth. Notes, Bibliography. Index..... More
Santa Fe: New Mexican Publishing Corporation, 1928. First Edition. Cloth. (viii) 219 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink by Elfego Baca on the front free endpaper: "Albuquerque N.M. March, 21-1932 to my Dear Friend Pat Vigil. Elfego Baca". Pictorial dust jacket (not price-clipped). Illustrated from vintage photographs. Cloth. 6" x 8 3/4"..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1980. First Thus. Cloth-backed patterned boards. (xii) 129 pp. Illustrated, including several from pencil sketches by Dan De Quille. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. Edited with an Introduction by James J. Rawls. Edition limited to 650 un-numbered copies. Printed by Arlen & Clara Louise..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1980. First Thus. Cloth-backed patterned boards. (xii) 129 pp. Prospectus and related material laid in. Illustrated, including several from pencil sketches by Dan De Quille. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. Edited with an Introduction by James J. Rawls. Edition limited to 650 un-numbered copies..... More
San Francisco: The Westgate Press, 1931. First Thus. Leather backed marbled boards. (xviii) 96 pp. Limited edition. One of 475 un-numbered copies printed at The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Illustrated from seven contemporary facsimile lithographs on folded blue paper; one facsimile pamphlet, inserted. Green suede-backed marbled boards. 8 5/8" x...... More
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1975. First Edition. Cloth. (xiv) 457[1] pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink By Author Jeff Dykes. Illustrated dust jacket. Cloth. Quarto. Profusely illustrated, including 13 color plates. A valuable bibliographic tool, listing books and exhibition catalogues for fifty Western artists, including Remington, Lea, Mora, Santee, Schreyvogel, Dixon and Will..... More
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1975. 1957 University of Utah Edition. Cloth. (vii)168 pages. Sans dust jacket. Folding map of The Mariposa Indian War, showing the campaigns of the Mariposa Battalion, in and around Yosemite. Cloth. 7" x 10 1/4". Many unopened pages. Tipped in frontispiece portrait from..... More
Portland: Richard Abel & Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Cloth. 140 pp. Annotated by William F. Heintz. Foreword by Thomas W. Chinn, a Founder and First President, Chinese Historical Society of America. Two Illustrations. One of 1000 un-numbered copies. Designed and printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. Orange cloth. Index..... More
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. (vi) 7-153 pp. First edition, first printing with publisher's monogram on title page and "S.T.K" for "T.S.K" on page 136. Green cloth; gilt spine and cover titling. 4 1/2" x 7". No jacket as issued. B`rown endpapers. Bret Harte..... More
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1927. First Trade Edition. (x) (2) 221 pp. Printed dust jacket. Illustrated, including frontispiece portrait from Loren Barton drawing of William Griffith Henshaw; facsimilies of Spanish land grant and Warner documents and maps. Preface by Professor Herbert E. Bolton. Red cloth. 7 1/2" x 10 3/4"..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923. Photoplay Edition. Cloth. 429 (8 ads.). Illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth; black cover and spine titling. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". Illustrated from black and white stills "from the photoplay". From the 1924 silent movie "NORTH OF 36", produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2009. First Edition. Cloth-backed cloth. (xv) (1) 324 (3) pp. 208 illustrations, some in color. Color illustrated endpapers. One of 500 un-numbered copies designed and printed by Castle Press of Pasadena. Black cloth backed green cloth. Silver spite titling; paper titling on front..... More
Boston: Eastern Book Company, 1881. First Edition. 416 pp. Illustrated from woodcut plates. Ilustrated cloth with gilt titling. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". Author Dio Lewis was a physician who journeyed west for adventures after practicing medicine in the East for more than thirty years. He writes of his three..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. First Edition. Cloth. (xxiv) 260 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated from period photographs, including Maclean family photographs. Cloth. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Edited and with Introduction by O. Alan Weltzien, Professor of English at The University of Montana Western. From the jacket..... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1982. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 144pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Produced at the Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, California. Cloth-backed boards. 6 1/2" x 8 1/4". Anthropologist Joan McIntrye is the former president of Project Jonah and the author of "Mind in the Waters". Contrary to what..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 589 pp. SIGNED by Larry McMurtry in ink on the title page. Illustrated dust jacket. Cloth-backed boards. 6" x 9 1/2". This is the sequel to Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove.The sourcework for the television miniseries starring James Garner..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1971. First Thus. Cloth. 86 pp. Adapted for young adults. Prospectus laid in. Edited and with an introduction by Ferol Egan. Illustrated. Margin decorations. Many unopened pages. 5" x 7". Brown cloth with gilt cover and spine titling. Designed and printed by Lawton..... More
