New York: Greenwood Book Publlishers, 1960. First Edition. INSCRIBED "With all good wishes I remain. Sincerely yours, Hettye Wallace Branch." 8vo. 59 pp. Black cloth in orange illustrated dustjacket. Slight fading to dustjacket spine else a fine copy. Born to a slave in 1860, "the subject of this biography, Daniel..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916 - 1924. First Edition Thus, Limited No. 711 of 750 copies. With 9-line manuscript leaf by the author, with ink corrections.The leaf is from Muir's book "The Mountains of California." Edited by William Frederic Bade. The first eight volumes are extra-illustrated with hand-colored frontispieces with tissue..... More
Pasadena, CA: Trail's End Publishing Co., 1946. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Bill Carlisle. 8vo. 220 pp. Illustrations by Charles Russell. Map endpapers by Charles Ellsworth. Introduction by J. R. Williams; Preface by Homer Britzman. Red cloth with gilt lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy. "This is the honest..... More
Austin, TX: Jenkins Publishing, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. 259, [15] pp. Index. Photo-illustrated plates. Orange cloth in black & orange dustjacket. A fine copy, with a hint of wear to dustjacket extremities. According to Jenkins #10, here is "The best summation of Texas black history...the only published work covering the..... 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
Bedford, WY: Star Valley Llama, 1993. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 4to. 102, [59] pp. 3 fold-out maps; illustrations, appendices. Stiff illustrated softcover in fine condition, as new. The road west -- Frederick William Lander -- 1857 the year of resolution -- The turning point -- On the road..... More
Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1937. First Edition. Paperback. The author has penned "#2 of 2 author's copies. George E. Hyde" to preliminary and rear pages. Octavo; xii, 331, [1]pp. Yapped edges have 1/4" tears to the grey card wrappers. No doubt an Advance Copy (the card covers are..... More
New York: Dutton, 1937. First Edition. 8vo. 162 pp. With 31 photographs taken "from the saddle", by the author. Review copy, with publisher's review slip tipped in. Orange cloth in illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (darkening to spine; minor wear to extremities). The author, posing as..... More
Albuquerque, NM: University Of New Mexico Press, 1948. First Edition, First Issue. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 223 pp. Index. 3 photographic plates of Charles R. Brice, Chief Justice of New Mexico, who was saved from assassination by Harkey; The End of Jim Miller and friends, hung by a mob..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1909. New and Enlarged Edition, Fully Illustrated. Octavo; [xiv]; 382pp. 32 captioned photographic plates, including frontispiece portrait of John Muir in Muir Woods in 1909 after photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. Map and Tables by Allen Chamberlain. Index to Map; General Index. Gilt decorated blue..... More
Wolfe City TX: Henington Publishing Company, 1989. Hardcover. SIGNED 'Bill James 1995' on preliminary page. Octavo; x, 79pp; bibliography, epilogue, photographs. A Fine copy in black cloth; front cover and spine lettered in silver. Jim Miller had been town marshal in Pecos, Texas (of Billie Sol Estes fame!) as well..... More
New York: Hastings House, 1958. First Edition. 8vo. 387 pp. Glossary. Photo-illustrated plates. Blue cloth, map endpapers, in color illustrated dustjacket. Dampstaining to lower cloth covers else near fine in very good dustjacket (light wear and chips to extremities, moreso to spine ends; two small dampstains to lower spine). The..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1916. Limited Edition #384 of 750 copies. Volume VI of The Manuscript edition of "The Writings of John Muir" published in 10 volumes. 8vo; [xiv]; 399; [1] pp. 32 captioned photographic plates, including frontispiece portrait of Mount Hoffman after photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. Map..... More
Wailuku: The Maui Publishing Co., 1935. First Edition. Small folio (12" x 9 1/4"). 99 pp. 6 full-page photograpic reproductions; iIllustrations; business advertisements. Color pictorial wrappers in very good condition (rear cover has neatly pulled away from text block; staining to upper corner on cover and first few pages) Scarce..... More