Pasadena: Trails End Publishing, 1947. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 262, [1] pp. Index. Illustrations by Charles M. Russell. Red cloth with gilt lettering; brand mark illustrated endpapers; in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (2" closed tear; minor wear to extremities). "Con Price, lifetime... More about Trails I Rode: Memories of Old Cowboy Days and Charlie Russell
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 265 pp. Illustrations by L. P. Harding. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket with wraparound cover art by L. P. Harting (minor chipping to spine ends; 2 short closed tears). The travelling medicine show with its... More about Medicine Show (SIGNED
Chicago: Revell, 1903. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 390 pp. Index. Photo-illustrations. TLS from a member of the author's family laid in. Orange pictorial cloth with gilt lettering in fine condition. The primary source for the destruction of the Fox Indian tribe. A more-recently discovered map from 1731 suggests that... More about Lost Maramech and Earliest Chicago: A History of the Foxes and of Their Downfall Near the Great...
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1958. Second Edition. 8vo. Illustrations. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering; illustrated endpapers, in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Small bookseller label else fine in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities). The biography of Jim McKinney (1861-1903), an ex-convict with a propensity for gambling, drinking and violence, a.... More about Shotguns On Sunday
New York: Dutton, 1926. First Edition, Limited to 750 copies. 8vo. xxiii, [5], 3-82 pp. Introductory note by Witter Bynner. Near fine (small spots to spine label) in near fine dustjacket (darkening to spine and fold lines; minor wear to extremities). "These poetic interpretations of the Blackfoot and Navajo Songs... More about Dawn Boy: Blackfoot and Navajo Songs
Monterey, CA: Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, 1990. First Edition. Original wrappers. 4to. 60 pp. Robert Brennan and Merle Schipper. Color and black & white illustrations. Color illustrated wrappers in find condition. Catalogue for exhibition held at the Monterey, Laguna and Oakland art museums 1989-1990. Includes Exhibition Checklist; List of... More about The Early Work of E. Charlton Fortune: Colors and Impressions
Monterey, CA: Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, 1986. First Edition. Original wrappers. 4to. 72 pp. color and black & white illustrations. Essays by Roger Aiken and Richard Lorenz. Stiff color illustrated wrappers in fine condition, as new. The uncommon catalog for a retrospective exhibition held at the Monterey Museum of... More about Henrietta Shore A Retrospective Exhibition: 1900-1963
Los Osos, CA: Sand River Press, 1991. Third Printing. 8vo. 82 pp. Illustrations. Stiff illustrated wrappers in fine condition, as new. "Here is the real story of the enduring legend, John Steinbeck, and Sparky's personal Log from the Sea of Cortez, recounting those wild and heady days. He tells true... More about With Steinbeck in the Sea of Cortez: A Memoir of the Steinbeck/Ricketts Expedition
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. [44] pp, unpaginated. Color plates. Stiff tan wrappers in fine condition. Keepsake designed for the members of the Book Club of California. Includes brief biography of Mora and 16 color and 2 black & white images, with textual descriptions... More about Jo Mora: California Cowboy & Artist
New York: Macmillan, 1911. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 340 pp. Photographic illustrations throughout. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; salmon color lettering & rulling to front board. Light wear to extremities; some darkening to spine; else a near fine copy. The exploits of Jack & Charmian London's lengthy... More about The Cruise of the Snark
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. Original wrappers. SIGNED by the author on front cover. Small 8vo. 8 leaves, including the wrappers. Original pictorial self-wrappers, stapled, uncut, as issued. One short marginal slit in front wrapper, light general wear; a near fine copy inf somewhat worn folding purple case... More about The Purple Cow! (SIGNED
New York: Macmillan, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 303 pp. Rust colored cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. Fine in fine dustjacket, with a hint of wear; dustjacket flap corners clipped but price is intact; a lovely copy. The source for the 1954 Robert Aldrich movie, "Apache," with a blue-eyed Burt... More about Broncho Apache
San Francisco: Yosemite Publishing, 1926. First Edition, second printing. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. [44] pp. Illustrated with 34 full-page sepia plates after photographs of numerous landmarks within the Yosemite Valley. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered and decorated on front cover in gilt. Internal text block staples just showing on inner hinges... More about Motoring Thru the Yosemite
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1942. First Edition. Original cloth. Limited to 300 copies. Folio. [8], ix-xlii, [2], 3-152, [1] pp. Illustrated wtih 26 maps, of which 10 are in color and 17 are folding. Bound in natural linen, light brown cloth spine, white spine label printed in red. Light fading... More about The Maps of the California Gold Region, 1848-1857: A Biblio-Cartography of an Important Decade
Prague: Vladimir Benes at The Bonaventura Publishing House, 1997. Limited Edition of 120 numbered copies. Original wrappers. 4to. 153 pp + colophon. Nine full-page etchings by Marina Richter, each SIGNED by the artist, and printed by Pavel and Milan Drímal. The text was set by hand and printed in the... More about The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
New York: The Lamb Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. Leather bound. First Lamb Edition. 20 volumes, complete set. 8vo. Various paginations. Edited by Lady Trevelyan (sister of Lord Macaulay). Three-quarter green morocco over green cloth boards; gilt lettering; 5 raised bands with 6 compartments; TEG. A near fine to fine... More about The Complete Writings of Lord Macaulay (20 volumes
Salt Lake City: Privately printed for the authors by Western Printing Company, 1937. First Edition Limited to 350 copies, this being No. 272. Original cloth. Full-page gift inscription by author, Maurice Howe with his thoughts about pioneers on the following page. 8vo. 152, [7] pp. Bibliography; Index; 9 photo-illustrated plates... More about Miles Goodyear: First Citizen of Utah Trader, Trapper and California Pioneer (INSCRIBED
Salt Lake City, UT: The Inter-Mountain Republican, October 6, 1907. First Edition. Single page color cartoon from the Inter-Mountain Republican newspaper. Image size 21 1/2 x 15 1/2". Matted and framed size 24 x 18". A fine copy of this scarce Jo Mora cartoon. Joseph Jacinto Mora (1876-1947), who worked... More about Animaldom: The Football Game
St. Paul, MN: St. Paul Dispatch, [April 7],1907. First Edition. Single page color cartoon from the St. Paul Dispatch newspaper. Image size 21 1/2 x 15 1/2". Matted and framed size 24 x 18". A fine copy of this scarce Jo Mora cartoon. Joseph Jacinto Mora (1876-1947), who worked as... More about Animaldom: The Absent-Minded Gazelle
London: Edward Moxon, 1839. First Collected Edition. Leather bound. Small 8vo. 380; 347; 314; 361 pp. Engraved fontispiece portrait of Shelley by W. Finden in Volume 1. Half-title in each volume. Preface & Notes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Contemporary full calf (stamped "Morrell, Binder. London") with elaborate gilt decoration to... More about The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 volumes
2007. First Edition Thus. Limited to 3000 copies. 3 volumes. Text in Chinese and English. Beautifully bound in silk brocade covered boards with text printed on silk cloth made up of 155000 fine silk fibers and 265000000 interwoven points; color image at front of each text volume. A fine and... More about The Art of War (3 volumes
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Ca. 1930, with "K-E" on copyright page. Early printing. Hardcover. Quarto. (xvii) 247pp. Illustrated by the author. 36 full-page plates with 11 in color (including frontispiece) plus 2 small color illustrations; numerous in-text illustrations. Half black cloth and tan paper boards with color... More about Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
New York: Harcourt Inc., 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by astronaut Gene Cernan with "Apollo XVII"; Cernan was the 2nd American to walk in space and the 12th - and last - man to walk on the moon. Additionally inscribed from "Jan & Gene" most likely in Jan's handwriting. Square... More about Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon (SIGNED by Gene Cernan
Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphics, 1948. First Illustrated Edition of Mice & Men in French. Limited to 390 copies, this being "Exemplaire S.P." (Service de Presse). Three-quarter leather. Small folio. 125, [2] pp. 37 color lithographs by Reynold Arnould. Translated by Maurice Coindreau. Three-quarter orange leather over paper covered boards;... More about Des Souris et Des Hommes
Mexico City: Escuela de Cocina Velazquez de Leon, 1947. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 363, [5] pp. Text in English and Spanish. Drawings by Guadalupe Mutiozabal Velasquez de Leon. Translated by Concepcion Silva Garcia. Stiff printed wrappers in color printed dustjacket. A very good copy in chipped and stained dustjacket... More about Mexican Cook Book: Devoted to American Homes