Austin, TX: State House Press, 1986. LImited Edition #41 of 50 copies. 8vo. 454 pp. Index. Half brown leather spine over cream linen covered boards in publisher's cream linen slipcase. A fine copy, as new. First published in 1909, here is the biography of William Jesse McDonald (1852 - 1918);..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1926. 1st. Original Cloth. Four volume set. Octavo. (xix), 331 pages; (xii), 390; (xi), 399; (xiv), 446 pages. Maps, some folding; plates and facsimiles; index and appendices of Palou"s correspondence in last volume. Navy blue ribbed cloth with gilt spine lettering. SIGNED by Bolton..... More
Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Quarto; xxv, 206 pages, Appendix, extensive Bibliography, Index in original goldenrod cloth stamped in brown at spine. "Mattes calls this 'one of the premier daily journals of the California gold rush... rich and revealing in its detail.'" More
Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 182 pp. Black & white photo-illustrations. Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear with crease to upper rear cover). Gift note describing the pleasures of reading the book paper-clipped to ffep. An exhaustive personal recollection of a boyhood spent..... More
New Mexico Historical Review, 1928. Softcover. 8vo. 54pp. Footnotes. INSCRIBED by the author upper front cover with additional notation in his hand. Reprinted from the New Mexico Historical Review Vol. II, Nos. 2-3, April, July, 1927. (Rittenhouse 461). More
St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1949. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; vi, 69 pages. From historian Ralph Bieber's library. More
Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; 381 pages in original gilt-stamped red cloth. 'To Dr. and Mrs. Ralph P. Bieber --/Inscribed with the best wishes of/William J. Peterson' to ffep. More
Kansas City: Phoenix Art Museum, 1979. 1st. Paperback. 4to. Color and black & white photo-illustrations. Color printed wraps in fine condition. Catalog for the Fourteenth Annual Exihition. Includes works by Jack Swanson, Joe Beeler, Grant Speed, James Boren, John Clymer, Fred Fellows, Nicholas Firfires, John Hampton, Bud Helbig, Harvey Johnson..... More
El Paso, TX: El Paso Public Library Association, 1977. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Lawrence Clark Powell and four of the "Great Constellations" (Carl Hertzog, Paul Horgan, Jose Cisneros, and Tom Lea) to John Gordon Knight, El Paso historian and writer at Texas Western. 8vo. [16] pp. Designed and..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1955. 1st. Hardcover. Quarto; xvi, 42 pages; foldout map. One of 330 copies by the Plantin Press. More
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; xii, 167 pages, signed by the author on title page. Signed on page 25 next to Powell's discussion of El Paso by Carl Hertzog ('Thanks, Larry...'); laid in is a postard from LCP regarding autographing books. Essays on Edward Abbey, Maynard Dixon, Saul..... More
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. #33 of an edition limited to 75 copies '... especially bound, slipcased and SIGNED by the contributors. This contributor's copy was created for William Everson. Signees include Ansel Adams, Jose Cisneros, Ward Ritchie, Jake Zeitlin, Frank Waters, Paul Horgan, William Everson and thirteen..... More
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1983. First Edition. 4to. xix, [1], 351pp. Bibliography. Sixteen full-page and eight smaller prints by noted Big Island artist Dietrich Varez especially for this collection. Rust cloth with gilt lettering to spine in cream & rust illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket (short tear..... More
San Francisco: R. L. Polk & Co., 1935. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 502pp. Business advertisements border every page (top and edge). Maroon and grey boards and yellow endpapers printed with advertisements; gilt lettering to spine; page edges stamped with advertisements. A buyer's guide and complete classified business directory containing an alphabetical..... More
San Francisco: R. L. Polk & Co., 1939. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 448pp. Business advertisements border every page (top and edge). Maroon and blue boards and yellow endpapers printed with advertisements; gilt lettering to spine; page edges stamped with advertisements. A buyer's guide and complete classified business directory containing an alphabetical..... More
San Francisco: R. L. Polk & Co., 1942. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 444pp. Business advertisements border every page (top and edge). Maroon and blue boards and yellow endpapers printed with advertisements; gilt lettering to spine; page edges stamped with advertisements. A buyer's guide and complete classified business directory containing an alphabetical..... More
San Francisco: R. L. Polk & Co., 1933. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 482pp. General Index; Index to Advertisers. Business advertisements border every page (top and edge). Maroon and yellow boards and yellow endpapers printed with advertisements; gilt lettering to spine; page edges stamped with advertisements. Owner name 'W. E. Mannering 4/11/33'..... More
San Francisco: R. L. Polk & Co., 1930. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 546pp. General Index; Index to Advertisers. Business advertisements border every page (top and edge). Maroon and green boards and yellow endpapers printed with advertisements; gilt lettering to spine; page edges stamped with advertisements. A buyer's guide and classified business..... More
San Francisco: R. L. Polk & Co., 1929. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 452pp. General Index; Index to Advertisers. Business advertisements border every page (top and edge). Maroon and yellow boards and yellow endpapers printed with advertisements; gilt lettering to spine; page edges stamped with advertisements. A buyer's guide and complete classified..... More
San Francisco: R. L. Polk & Co., 1960. 1st. Hardcover. First edition thus. 8vo. [1180+ pgs]. Illustrations. Red cloth spine lettered in gilt with grey cloth boards printed in red & black. Lettering to textblock top and fore-edges. A near fine copy. Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and..... More
Stanford CA: Stanford Historical Society, 1991. 1st. Paperback. Oblong small 8vo. 152 pp. Photo-illustrations. Stiff pictorial wrappers in fine condition. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
N.p. The Lyons Press, 2004. First Edition, Limited to 100 numbered copies, INSCRIBED & numbered by the author. Includes Limited Edition etching of Visalia Stock Saddle No. 1 as shown in Visalia Circular in 1892. Large 4to. xviii, [2], 172 pp. color and black & white photographs and illustrations. The..... More
Amado, AZ: 1956. Single sheet folded, near fine condition (small chips to edges). Written from Armado, Arizona on November 21, 1956, Reynolds offers his animal acts to a Mr. Frank Bogart, "...I have a Comady act with 6 trained goats thats really going over good. and I have a liberty..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1916. 1st. Original cloth. Firt Edition, published April, 1916. 12mo. 149, [1], [6 pp publisher's advertisements] pp. 2 illustrated plates by H. T. Dunn. Brick red cloth stamped in black. Light wear to extremities; short closed tears to a few pages at the upper page edges..... More
Chico, CA: William Hutchinson, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 'The Little World Waddies (privately printed for W.H. Hutchinson, by master printer Carl Hertzog of El Paso, 1946) is a collector's item all the way. Hutch selected and edited the stories, published, promoted, and distributed the 1,000 copies. There is a fine..... More