San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1967. First Edition. 430pp. Quarto [26 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket is price clipped. This important work is an aggregate of editor's notes and narrative and Anderson's various historical texts..... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1965. First Edition, 1/8. 234-264pp. Octavo [24 cm] Two unsewn gatherings (15,16) from the first volume of the Hafen series 'The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade.' Fine. Association copy. Inscribed by the author to Dale Morgan. "Dale Morgan: Dear friend: This very rare pamphlet..... More
[Saint Louis, MO]: The Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, [1964]. 35pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light blue wrappers. Very good. Association copy. Inscribed by the editor to Dale Morgan. "For Dale Morgan, with good wishes - George R. Brooks." More
New York: The Press of the Pioneers, Inc., 1935. Second Edition. Two volume set. 482, 483-1014pp. Octavo [23 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Backstrips sunned, otherwise very good. Map present in the rear pocket. Chittenden's opus is the standard work on..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. First Edition. 222pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth with the title and bands gilt on the backstrip. Both the book and jacket are better than very good. This is volume 64 in the 'American Exploration and Travel Series.'. Born in 1790 in Canada, Peter..... More
Stockton, CA: University of the Pacific, 1968. 63pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Contains the Morgan piece, 'New Light on Ashley and Jed Smith: Good luck and a sharp eye find missed data in an old paper.' Saunders 139. More
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1967. First Edition. 76pp. Octavo [26.5 cm] Illustrated white boards. Near fine. Morgan's contribution to this book was from the Conference and was published twice the following year, first in Minnesota History and then reprinted in American West. It is essentially an historiographic essay..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. First Edition. 320pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Rust colored cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket is price clipped. "Kit Carson's life story is, in essence, the story of the West as that region developed over the first three quarters of the nineteenth century. As such..... 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
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
Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1963. 403-415pp. Octavo [23 cm] Side stapled wrappers. Near fine. From the 'American Quarterly' (Vol.15-No.3). Association copy. Inscribed by the author for Dale Morgan. "With highest regards - a small work in the area of your great competence. Bill Goetzmann." More
Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1961. First Edition. 153pp. Octavo [26 cm] Illustrated boards. Fine. Morgan was a consultant for this profusely illustrated children's history that covers major details in the history of the North American fur trade from the earliest French efforts in the latter seventeenth century to the settlement..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965. Revised Edition. 361pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Very good/Very good. Caleb Greenwood was a giant figure in the early West. From his early days along the Missouri River as a trapper until years later as an..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965. Signed limited edition. 361pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Housed in a double slipcase covered in red and green cloth. Paper label on green slipcase. Book in fine condition with the slipcases showing minor rubbing at the..... More
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1954. First Edition. 86pp. Folio [44 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. Complete with all seven maps. The four page prospectus is laid in. This volume was the logical extension of Morgan's biography of Jedediah Smith. Morgan and..... More
Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1964. First Edition. 341pp. Large quarto [35 cm] 3/4 tan calf over brown cloth with a gilt stamped red label on the backstrip. Housed in a matching brown cloth slipcase . Near fine. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. The dedicatee Carl I. Wheat's copy..... More
Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1964. First Edition. 341pp. Large quarto [35 cm] Gray cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip and an illustration by Catlin of Eagle's Ribs in red on the front board. Near fine. Morgan considered this volume, the fruit of two decades of research..... More
Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1964. First Edition. 341pp. Large quarto [35 cm] 3/4 tan calf over brown cloth with a gilt stamped red label on the backstrip. Housed in a matching brown cloth slipcase . Near fine. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. The printing of this book was..... More
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1938. First Edition. 90pp. Quarto [27 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over blue boards. Title in white on front board and on a label on the backstrip. Volume is fine. Age toning to publisher's glassine jacket. Historical Documents Institut Francais de Washington Cahier XI (11)..... More
St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1912. 162pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 blue cloth over light blue boards. Title and ruled gilt stamped on backstrip. Top edge gilt. About very good. Gentle wear to extremities of boards with the corners bumped and rubbed through. Bookplate on the front free endsheet. This..... More
Stockton, CA: The Jedediah Smith, 1984. First Edition. 48pp. Quarto [28 cm] Tan illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Short illustrated work that contains a brief biographical sketch of the legendary mountain man and pathfinder which is followed by a list of all the monuments of Smith. Each listing includes the location..... 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