New Found Letters of Josiah Gregg
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1931. Reprint. Softcover. 8vo. 24pp. Original stiff blue wraps. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for April, 1930. More
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Lehi Centennial History 1850-1950 (A History of Lehi for One Hundred Years)
Lehi, UT: Free Press Publishing, 1950. 1st. Octavo. 928 pages plus 'List of Illustrations' and 'Index to Biographical Section' for both parts. Black embossed pictorial cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Fine condition; as new. This book is divided into two parts; Part I reprints Gardner's 1913 'History of Lehi..... More
Register for 1902-03: Leland Standford Junior University
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1903. 1st. Paperback. First edition. 12mo. 232pp, including indices. Green wrappers. Small open tears to spine ends; 2" closed tear to lower spine joint; minor wear to edges; creasing to corners. Very good. University Bulletins Quarterly No. 13. April 1903. With a staff and faculty..... More
Register for 1903-04: Leland Standford Junior University
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1904. 1st. Paperback. First edition. 12mo. 229pp, including indices. Green wrappers. Previous owner's name; shelf wear to spine ends and corners; very good. University Bulletins Quarterly No. 18. April 1904. With a staff and faculty directory, information about entrance requirements, degrees, etc. Next day shipping..... More
Register for 1906-07: Leland Standford Junior University
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1907. 1st. Paperback. First edition. 12mo. 229pp, including indices. Green wrappers. Previous owner's name; shelf wear to spine ends and corners; else near fine. University Bulletins Quarterly No. 30. April 1907. With a staff and faculty directory, information about entrance requirements, degrees, etc. Next day..... More
Voyages of Francisco de Ortega: California, 1632-1633
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. First Edition. Octavo; 75 pp, illustrations including frontis 'Pearl Fishing' by Berckenmeyr, folding map ('Third Voyage of Francisco de Ortega January 11 to May 16, 1636'); Bibliography. Front endpapers show map of 'First Voyage of Francisco de Ortega February 27 to July 3, 1632';..... More
Early Days in the Big Bend Country (SIGNED)
Spokane, Wash. W. D. Allen, 1926. First Edition Thus; the "Big Bend Edition" limited to 105 copies of which 100 copies are SIGNED and numbered by the author, this being #72. 8vo. 35 [2]pp. Frontispiece group portrait of Big Bend pioneers; photo-illustration at rear of the first post office in..... More
Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp
New York: Macmillan, 1919. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 189pp + 3pp publisher's advertisements. Foreword by William Lyon Phelps. Orange, black & yellow decorative binding with black lettering; publisher's tan & brown illustrated dustjacket. About near fine in very good dustjacket (some wear to extremities; short closed tears; small loss at spine..... More
Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp
New York: Macmillan, 1920. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 189pp. Foreword by William Lyon Phelps. Orange, black & yellow decorative binding with black lettering; publisher's tan & brown illustrated dustjacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities, more so to spine head; light scrape on spine). A nice copy..... More
Flowers of Our Lost Romance
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First Edition. Large 8vo. 288 pp. 16 full-page illustrations. Orange cloth in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. Front hinge lightly cracked else a fine copy in fine dustjacket (with just a hint of wear). Charles Lummis completed this, his last book, only a few days before is..... More
The Bench and Bar of Texas
St. Louis, Mo. Published by the author, 1885. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 610 pp. Portrait engravings with tissue guards. Three-quarter brown leather over brown cloth boards; TEG; marbled endpapers. Faint dampstaining affecting some of the portraits; owner name; presentation label from a church else a near fine copy. History of jurisprudence..... More
The San Juan Basin: My Kingdom was a County (SIGNED)
Denver, CO: Green Mountain Press, 1970. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii, 247pp. Bibligraphy; Index. Photo-illustrations. Mustard-colored cloth in map-illustrated dustjacket. SIGNED by both authors. A thoroughly researched history of the Four Corners region (Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico). More
Nevada: A History of the State From the Earliest Times Through the Civil War (SIGNED)
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1936. First Edition, Limited to 250 copies, this being #138. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author at the colophon. Large 8vo. 495pp. Illustrated with photographs, facsimiles and maps. Original tan buckram with gilt-stamped maroon leather spine label; top edge gilt; printed on Covenant rag paper..... More
North to Montana!: Jehus, Bullwhackers, and Mule Skinners on the Montana Trail (INSCRIBED)
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1980. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the authors "To ***, who started us on this trail. Betty M. Madsen, Brigham D. Madsen". Octavo; xx, 298 pages in original black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated with photographs and maps, appendices..... More
Gold Rush Sojourners in Great Salt Lake City 1849-1850 (INSCRIBED)
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1983. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. 8vo. 178 pp. Maps; illustrations. Bibliography; Index. Green cloth in publisher's green illustrated dustjacket. Fine condition. volume eighteen in the University of Utah Publications In the American West. Examines the mutually advantageous economic relationships that sprang..... More
The Great Comstock Lode Digest From 1859 to 1937
[Virginia City, NV.?]: Printed by Green Printing Co., Reno, NV. [1937]. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. Small 8vo. 86 pp. Fold-out map. Tan printed wrappers in very good condition (1" split to wrappers at spine head; light general wear; rusting to staples). A true story of the Comstock Lode by..... More
Escape from Death Valley as Told by William Lewis Manly and Other '49ers (SIGNED)
Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1987. 1st. Paperback. INSCRIBED by both editors to the first page and title page along with original drawing. First edition. 4to. xvii, 213pp, including appendices, bibliography, and index. Black & white illustrations; maps; photographs. Glossy illustrated stiff wrappers. Minor wear else fine. Presented here for..... More
Indexed Pocket Map: Tourists' and Shippers' Guide to Montana
Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Co., (1920). 12mo. 32 pp text; large color folding map (20 1/2" x 27 1/2"); printed on both sides. The front side shows railroads, electric lines, counties, cities, towns, villages, post offices, lakes, rivers, etc. The verso shows the Montana automobile road map..... More
Samuel Carey: Participant in the Massacre of Wyoming, July 3, 1778, and Six Years a Prisoner With the British and Indians
[Los Angeles]: Published by the author, [n.d.]. 1st. Paperback. Small 8vo. 21pp. Pale green staplebound wraps in fine condition (short closed tear to upper rear cover). Scarce history on Carey's family, pioneers of Wyoming Valley, PA. tracing his ancestors from their landing on this continent, with some incidents in their..... More
Bit and Spur Makers in the Texas Tradition: A Historical Perspective (SIGNED)
Nicasio, CA: Hawk Hill Press, 2000. First Edition. SIGNED by Ned and Jody Martin. Quarto, 264 pages. With History by Ralph Emerson. 700 stunning color photographic reproductions of bits and spurs, taken of some 70 different private and museum collections. A fine copy, as new. Chronicles more than 60 craftsmen..... More
Bit and Spur Makers in the Vaquero Tradition: A Historical Perspective (SIGNED)
Nicasio, CA: Hawk Hill Press, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the authors. 4to. 336pp. 650 color photographs of pieces from more than 45 distinguised collections. Glossary; Bibliography; Index. Black cloth with red lettering in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy. Focusing on the period between 1840 to 1960..... More
Bits & Spurs: Motifs, Techniques and Modern Makers (SIGNED)
Nicasio, CA: Hawk Hill Press, 1997. First Edition. SIGNED by the authors. 4to. 303 pp. 336pp. Over 900 color photographs. Glossary; Bibliography; Index; 2 pp for notes at rear. Black cloth with red lettering in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy, as new. This title presents 123 contemporary bit and..... More
Bit and Spur Makers in the Vaquero Tradition: A Historical Perspective (SIGNED)
Nicasio, CA: Hawk Hill Press, 1997. First Edition, #84 of a Limited Edition of only 250 copies, SIGNED by both authors. Quarto, 336 pages. Bound in full leather with a sterling silver concho mounted on the front cover. Chronicles 85 of the Western craftsmen who created intricately engraved silver bits..... More
Bit and Spur Makers in the Vaquero Tradition: A Historical Perspective (SIGNED)
Nicasio, CA: Hawk Hill Press, 1997. First Edition, #53 of a Limited Edition of only 250 copies, SIGNED by both authors. Quarto, 336 pages. Bound in full leather with a sterling silver concho mounted on the front cover. Chronicles 85 of the Western craftsmen who created intricately engraved silver bits..... More
Famous Gun Fighters of the Western Frontier (SIGNED)
Monroe, WA: Weatherford Press, 1982. 75th Anniversary Edition. SIGNED "Best wishes, Jack DeMattos". 8vo. 183 pp. Annotated and illustrated by Jack DeMattos. Brown cloth with black illustration and lettering to front cover. A fine copy, as new. Masterson's series of sketches on famous Western gun fighters including Ben Thompson, Wyatt..... More