Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2006. First Edition. 314pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue colored cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and the backstrip. Fine. Frontier Military Series XXV (25). "It is important to place the Mormon Battalion fully into the context of the Mexican..... More
Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press, 1978. First Edition. 328pp. Quarto [28 cm] Brown grained buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. "King of Old Oregon, Emperor of the West, King of the Columbia, Great White Eagle, Savior of Oregon, Founder of Oregon..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. First Edition. 411pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth with the title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. "Using innovative and standard archaeological techniques, combined with historical documents and Indian eyewitness accounts, Richard Allan Fox, Jr., vividly replays this battle in astonishing detail. Through bullets..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. First Edition. 155pp. Quarto [25.5 cm] Black cloth with silver stamped titles. Very good/Very good. jacket is price-clipped. "Within thirty years of the time the first Mormons settled in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, George Ed Anderson set out to photograph all..... More
New York: The Wolfer Press, [1908]. First Edition. 73pp. Octavo [21 cm] Tan cloth with the title stamped in black on the front board. Better than very good. A collection of anti-Mormon essays presented as eighteen letters, from a father to his son. Complete with all four, full-page illustrations. "My Dear..... More
Washington DC: Gales & Seaton, 1845. First Edition, Senate Issue. 693pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth with blind stamped boards and the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. General overall wear with bookplate on the front pastedown and a handful of ownership and lending library marks. Rear pocket for map..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. Second Printing. 151pp. Octavo [24 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Gentle rubbing to the extremities of price clipped jacket. "This interesting biography, together with more than one hundred of Barthelmess' fine photographs, makes an important contribution..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969. First Edition. 145pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Gentle rubbing to the extremities of the jacket. This is volume 56 in the 'The American Exploration and Travel Series.'. "This contemporary account of the movement of..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949. First Edition. 324pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown cloth with silver stamped titles on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Deals with western feuds, the vigilantes, cattle rustlers, such outlaws and gunmen as Sam Bass, Billy the Kid, the Earps, John Wesley Hardin, Wild Bill Hickok..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition. 324pp. Octavo [22 cm] Gray cloth. Very good/Very good. Jacket is price-clipped and shows minor rubbing at the corners. "The book tells of buffalo hunting for sport by Washington Irving and the Russian Prince Alexis. It describes Buffalo Bill's killing buffaloes to..... More
Stoughton, MA: Western Hemisphere, Inc., 1970. First Edition. 390pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Very good. Fold-out map present at the rear. Variant blue cloth (as opposed to the red). "If those who read Howard Gardiner's account of his experiences in..... More
Salt Lake City: [Seagull Press], 1924. 117pp. Large octavo [24.5 cm] Gray marbled wrappers with the title on the front panel. Minor sunning and wear to covers. Bookplate on reverse of cover. Profusely illustrated tribute to McCune, who held many positions both ecclesiastical (Relief Society Board) and civic (USU Trustee)..... More
London: Jarrolds Publishers, [1936]. 287pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. A few small chips to the foot of the jacket. Eight pages of advertisements (dated: Spring, 1936) at the rear for other Jarrolds publication. Complete with all thirty tipped-in..... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1960. First Edition. 274pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. Spain in the West Series VIII (8). "Piracy in the Pacific between Panama and the California was never given the attention that the Caribbean pirates..... More
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. First Edition. 337pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. "The critical problem arising from Russian expansion across Asia was that of supplying the outermost reaches with food. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the..... More
Los Angeles: Cole-Holmquist Press, 1961. First Edition. 473pp. Octavo [25.5 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. "This narrative presents the history of one of the oldest and most successful rancho among the more than eight hundred land grants in the pioneer days of..... More
Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1972. First Edition. 106pp. Quarto [29 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Lacks dust jacket. Near fine. Introduction and commentary by George Crossette. Foreword by Stewart L. Udall. Profusely illustrated work on the photography career of Herbert Gleason. Includes images of..... More
Salt Lake City: Bureau of Information, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1918. 24pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Green printed wrappers. Very good. "Although constant reference is made in this treatise to the loyalty of the Mormon people, mainly because of the persistent falsehoods circulated by hireling agitators in..... More
Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1979. First Edition. 249pp. Quarto [28 cm] Gray cloth with title in black on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Jacket's spine is sun faded. Translated with introduction and notes by Basil Dmytryshyn and E.A.P. Crownhart-Vaughan. "The four sections of the report and the..... More
Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1928. First Edition. 442pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with gilt stamped title and bands on the backstrip. Very good. Mild bumping to the lower corners of the boards. 'New Hampshire Historical Society. Collections. Volume 12' Complete with all five tipped-in plates. Overall a...... More
Gerald, MO: The Patrice Press, 1986. First Edition. 81pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps. "Graydon distilled his experience in this set of maps, and using them the traveler can drive..... More
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1915. First Edition. Two Volume Set. 341, 346pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip. Gilt top edge. Very good. Bookplates and names on pastedowns. "The 'Founding of a Nation' is the only book in the historical..... More
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1928. First Edition. 361pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with the title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip. Gilt top edge. Near fine. Fold-out map present. "This pioneering study by Hafen, the first book published by the Clark Company for the author, includes topics..... More
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1961. First Edition. 360pp. Octavo [24.5] Green cloth with the title and bands gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good. Edited, with introduction and notes by LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hafen. Fifteenth, and final, volume in the well-received series 'Far West and the..... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1954-1961. First Editions. 15 Volume Set. Octavos [24.5 cm] Green cloth with the titles and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip. All volumes very good or better. - Volume I. Hafen, LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hafen. 'Old Spanish Trail, Santa Fe to Los Angeles.' 377pp. -..... More