Denver: Fred Rosenstock/Old West Publishing Company, 1969. First Edition. Illustrated Cloth. 230 pp. Illustrated from maps. Prospectus laid in. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated cloth. 8" x 11 1/4". Edition limited to 2000 copies, Designed and pritned by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, San Francisco. Contains both the Guide and Diary of..... More
Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1967. First Edition. Illustrated cloth. 116 pages. Illustrated from drawings by Coit. Red illustrated cloth with gold spine titling. 9 1/4" x 13". One of 1250 copies designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy of San Francisco. Edited, and with an Introduction by George..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Second edition. Cloth-backed boards. 100 (7) pages. Illustrated from colored drawings by Arvilla Parker. Introduction and notes by Charles L. Camp. Edited by Douglas S. Watson. Octavo. One of 500 copies. #7 of the Rare America Series printed and published by The Grabhorn Press..... More
Oakland, California: Biobooks, 1945. California Centennial Edition. (v) (3) 163 pages. Dust jacket. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. One of 1500 un-numbered copies. Illustrations by Victor R. Anderson. White pictorial cloth. 7 3/4" x 11". Judge Thornton's account of the Donner Party tragedy, from Volume II, Harper's 1855 Edition. Includes..... More
New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. 184 pages. Presentation Copy, SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Nick Eggenhofer in ink on the half-title, "To John Carroll with our very best wishes / Nick Eggenhofer". The late John M. Carroll was a well-regarded Custer historian. Carrol's SIGNED bookplate is affixed to the..... More
Oakland: Biobooks, 1955. First Thus. Cloth. (x) 44 (4) pp. Edition limited to 500 un-nimbered copies. "First California Edition", printed by Times-Star Press, Alameda, California. California Relations Series, 39. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. After the rare 1851 edition in the Huntington Library. Brown cloth; gilt front cover titling. 6..... More
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 271 pages SIGNED in ink by author on the half title. Illustrated. Index. Cloth. Historical introduction. 718 entries describing 350 books, 250 articles and more than 100 Congressional documents concerning the Sante Fe Trail. A cornerstone of any Trails..... More
Los Angeles: B. R. Baumgardt & Co., 1900. First Edition. Original Cloth. Los Angeles: B R. Baumgardt &Co., 1900. Original Cloth First Edition Very Good in (Mylar) DJ 313 pages. Frontis portrait of Shaw. Illustrated with frontis and 7 halftones (listed). Maroon cloth with gilt spine and cover titling. SIGNED..... More
Haverford, PA: Headframe Publishing Company, 1978. First Thus. Leather-backed Marbled Boards. 81 pages. Illustrated. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is #68. Folding vintage map of California and the Routes to it. Leather-backed marbled paper covered boards. Prologue and Epilogue by Franz R. Dykstra. Designed and printed by..... More
Salem, Oregon: Oregon Teachers Monthly, 1909. Revised and Abridged Edition. Original wrappers. 119 pages. Portrait of Olive Oatman at 16 from woodcut. Edition Revised and abridged by Chas. H. Jones. This is American bibliophile Frank C. Deering's copy, with his leather bookplate affixed to the verso of the front cover..... More
San Francisco: John Howell - Books, 1982. Fourth Edition. Cloth. (xx)745 pages. Illustrated, primarily from photographs of described publications. This is the Fourth Edition which has been Revised, Enlarged and Edited by Robert H., Becker. Index. 7" x 10 1/2". Brown cloth. The revised and enlarged edition of the definitve..... More
