Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1945. First Edition. Complete in 3 volumes. 8vo. 400, 570, 713, [48] pp. Index. Photo-illustrations. Blue cloth in illustrated dustjacket. Light bump to upper front corner of Volume I else a fine set. Memoirs of the controversial Oklahoma politician William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray (1869-1956). A Democrat..... More
New York: Hastings House, 1961. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. xi, 306pp. Orange cloth in color illustrated dustjacket by Nickolas Eggenhofer. SIGNED by the artist on lower front dustjacket and below the image of a longhorn at the beginning of the poem 'Red Conner's Night in Ellsworth. A near fine copy in..... More
New York: Hastings House, 1961. Nick Eggenhofer. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; xi, 306 pages. The illustrator has signed the front panel of the dust jacket and the steer illustration on page 1. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images..... More
Chico, CA: Printed by Hearst & Moore, 1940. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. 86pp. Photo-reproductions. Map. Publisher's green cloth spine and pictorial paper boards. A near fine copy (minor wear to extremities; owner name). An uncommon title on the early history of Butte County; much on pioneers, John Bidwell, agriculture, Native Americans..... More
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1953. First Edition. Large 8vo. 343 pp. Index. Maps; Illustrations. Red cloth with gilt lettering in fine condition. Western Frontiersmen Series, IV. "A most interesting book of reminiscences, with some material on many of the outlaws of Oklahoma and Texas, telling, among other things..... More
Reno, NV: Lunsford's Reno Printing Company, 1926. 1st. Original wrappers. 8vo. 48pp. Numerous photo-illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers printed in red, white, blue & black. A superb pamphlet promoting the limitless resources and prospects of Reno, Nevada, and its environs during the 1920's--without one word about gambling and brothels. (Paher 1369)..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1927. First Edition. 8vo. 284 pp. Illustrated by Joe De Yong. Green cloth in illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (corners clipped but price intact; gift inscription; wear to extremities; fading and spotting to spine). Uncommon in dustjacket. A wild West story that is..... More
Chicago: Historic America Publishers, ca. 1920. Paperback. Small 8v0. 64pp. Illustrations in color and sepia. Color printed staplebound stiff wraps in near fine condition (minor wear to extremities;4 small tape ghosts inside rear cover). The cover title reads "The California Missions: the Romance & Drama of the Missions and The..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1910. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 321pp. Publisher's red cloth with black lettering. A very good copy (corners bumped; slight fading to spine; wear to extremities; owner name; pencil checkmarks to many of the names). More
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
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
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