[Bozeman]: Haynes Inc., (c.1950). [36pp] Oblong quarto [20 cm x 26 cm] String tied white wrappers with the title gray on the front panel. Very good. Corners of covers dinged, internally nice. View book of eighteen tinted views of Yellowstone from the Haynes family. Jack Ellis Haynes (1884-1962) began working in..... More
Los Angeles: H.H. Tammen Company, [1914]. [52pp.] Square quarto [27 cm x 31 cm] Brown string-bound wrappers with the title and a view on the front panel. Very good. 24 mounted views [15.5 cm x 21 cm] on rectos of gray leaves [25 cm x 30 cm] with a 'Description..... 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
Pasadena: Westernlore Press, 1979. Revised Edition. 125pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Blue grained buckram. Near fine/Near fine. Profusely illustrated. Woodward formally curator of history and anthropology of the Los Angeles County Museum, has compiled an excellent anthology of writings on the material culture of the fur trade. This is a very..... More
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1965. Second Printing. 278pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Yellow printed cloth. Very good/Near fine. Jacket price-clipped. "So this excursion through the Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of California is more than a collection of anecdote and story. It is a fragment of Americana which helps to..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. First Edition. 434pp. Octavo [22 cm] Light red cloth with the title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. A few nicks to the corners with small tape "repairs." "The story is intended to outline some of the relationships between the Great Frontier and the Metropolis..... More
[Portland]: Champoeg Press, 1955. 55pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth with a Mossman & Co. advertisement printed in black on the front board. Near fine. Fold-out map at the rear present. Mounted photo frontispiece present. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy in an edition of 500 copies. "A Pony Expressman's..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1937. First Edition. 242pp. Octavo [22 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. "George Derby, alias John Phoenix, was an army officer of a notable New England family. Stationed in California in Gold Rush days, he found in that zestful..... More
El Paso: Texas Western Press, The University of Texas at El Paso, 1969. First Edition. 226pp. Octavo [24 cm] Tan cloth. Near fine/Near fine. "The author traces the development of ranching in South Texas, with particular emphasis on the heretofore unmentioned millions of sheep. His extensive research and wide personal..... More
San Jose, CA: Harlan-Young Press, 1972. First Edition. 254pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Light blue cloth. Very good/Near fine. Jacket is price-clipped. Signed by the author on the title page. "In this vivid narrative, Ruth Hermann takes the reader in a scant one-hour drive from the glittering neon-lighted casinos and shops..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. First Edition. 285pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with the title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Minor overall discoloring to price clipped jacket. "Reduced to its simplest terms, barbed wire changed not only American but world-wide concepts of enclosure. Before its invention in..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. 344pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth with the titles in gilt relief panels on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. jacket is price-clipped. Signed by the author on the title page. Epic of the California Gold Rush and the author's..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941. First Edition. 290pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Bookplate attached to rear flap of jacket (not attached to rear pastedown). "What you hold in your hands is the San Francisco book you have always hoped someone would have the genius to..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1953. First Edition. 410pp. Octavo [24 cm] Tan cloth. Very good/Very good. Gift inscription in ink on the half-title. "John Evans, former governor of Colorado, organized in 1881 a railroad to run southward from Denver as the first link in cheap rail-water route via the..... More
San Francisco: William Hamilton Nelson, 1932. Third Edition. 133pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Orange cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. A few small nicks to the jacket's corners. Being a series of connected sketches of the youngest state in the American Union..... More
Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1967. 67pp. Quarto [27 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Edited by George Koenig. Photographs by Ansel Adams. Fold-out route map by Robert Becker is present at the rear. "This diary records with on-the-scene impact..... More
Midland: Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library, 1986. 68pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/2 gray cloth over light gray boards with the title stamped in black on the front board and the backstrip. Very good. Head of backstrip gently sun faded. Inscribed by the subject, J. Evetts Haley beneath the frontispiece. "Charles..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1991. 274pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/2 red cloth over printed boards with a paper label on the backstrip. Near fine. Attractive reprint of this rare 1842 Texiana title that recounts a yachting trip in the Gulf of Mexico by a well-born English woman. "Rather, picturing her..... More
New York: The Bancroft Company, 1900. First Edition. 738pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green cloth with the title and decorative gilt stamping to front board and backstrip. Very good. Minor rubbing to corners of boards. Bookplate on front pastedown and front free endsheet (same). Binding design by Margaret Armstrong. History of..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921, 1923. Two Volume Set. 527, 512pp. Dark blue cloth with the title and bands gilt stamped on the backstrip. Both volumes better than very good. Bookplates on the front pastedown of both volumes. History of California in two volumes. "With the exception of a...... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1969. 62pp. Octavo [25 cm] Yellow cloth with the title on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. "Originally issued in 1887 in an edition of only fifty copies, this rare book was known in only two copies at the time of its..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, 1948. First Edition. 351pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Price-clipped jacket has minor rubbing at the corners with one short closed tear to the the front panel. Attractive bookplate on the front pastedown. Map endsheets and..... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1953. First Edition. 352pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with title and rules gilt stamped on backstrip. Near fine. American Waterways Series IV (4). "Based on primary source material, Rector's study reveals the intimate details of the logging industry in the late 19th century. The..... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1964. Revised Edition. 390pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with the title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip. Better than very good. Western Frontiersman Series III (3). "Tilghman was an important law officer in Oklahoma. This biography by his wife is surprisingly unbiased. He..... 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