New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. First edition. 24 cm. xix, 291pp., illus. Blue cloth, gilt stamped spine. Very good copy. DYKES 87 GRAFF 863 HERD 569 RADER 907 REESE 120:23 SIX-GUNS 484 SIX SCORE 23... More
(Chloride, AZ): The author, 1928. Folio. 6 pp. Index. 3 maps on 2 sheets, partly colored with pencil. Self-wrappers. Very good. Original typescript, unsigned, with several manuscript corrections. Two miles east of Chloride, Rainbow encompassed several working veins of sulphide ore, yielding gold, silver, and lead. Crabtree asserted that "this..... More
Baltimore, (MD): Wirth Brothers, 1950. First edition. 8vo. 110 pp. Illustrated from photographs and paintings, plates. Adams Rampaging Herd 606. Very good. Green cloth, gilt spine title. (#5762). More
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Press, 1946. First edition. 8vo. 350 pp. Illustrated from photographs and old art work, plates, frontispiece portrait of the subject, Big Dan Cunningham. Thirty-year official at the Denver and Rio Grande Western. Signed by Dan Cunningham on the half-title. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth, illustrated..... More
New York: J. H. Colton, 1852. First edition. 12mo. 351 pp. Folding map affixed to front pastedown (torn, with a little loss of map and several inches of the ornamental border; 18-page publisher’s catalogue at rear. Sabin 18069. Howes C-967. Original cloth (rubbed), gilt spine title (very dull). Owner’s 1860..... More
Santa Fe, NM: Peripatetic Press, (c1941). First edition, 1/400 unnumbered copies. 4to. 178 pp. Illustrated, marginal vignettes by Fanita Lanier, colored masks. Includes two essays: "Zuni and Cushing," ; by E. DeGolyer, and "An Aboriginal Pilgrimage," by Sylvester Baxter. Silver-stamped grey cloth, printed dust jacket (darkened and somewhat soiled, a...... More
St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1876. Four issues, New Series, Vol. 2, Nos. 48, 49, 50, and 52. Large format newspaper, 59 x 45 cm., each issue 8 pp. All are very good, crisp copies. Articles describe the June 25, 1876 battle, "thirty or forty miles below Little Horn"..... More
Nevada County, Cal. Executed & published by John A. Fuller, W. Vallance Gray, Lith., Printed by E. Fletcher, 308 Front Street, 1866. Broadside, 66 x 51 cm., a multi-colored lithograph, printed in red, white and blue, containing the text of the Declaration of Independence. Described in detail upon its publication..... More
Np: np, nd [1935?]. First edition. 8vo. 42 pp. Includes the title story--a tale of murder, thievery, and salvation, with racist overtones, 2 prose sketches, and 11 poems. Probably a Library of Congress deposit copy; date ("May 6- 1935") stamped on verso of front wrapper. Scarce; unrecorded by the NUC..... More
Dallas [TX]: Southwest Press, 1930. First edition, first issue (without the word "clean" in the dedication). 8vo.; xv, 367pp. Illustrated by Ben Carlton Mead. A very good copy in lightly soiled, worn dustjacket, with several small closed tears. HOWES D374. More
Carson City [NV]: Nevada State Printing Office, [1887]. Black lettered grey paperwraps, with small illustration on front cover. 8vo.; 44pp. A summarized record of the proceedings, banquet, and other observances; full and complete list of the Society membership, inventory of the property donated, etc. A very good copy. "The Society..... More
Chicago: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Company, 1899. First edition (rather uncommon thus, often reprinted). (2), 7-586, 8 [ads] pp. Illustrated. Popular read of questionable history. Howes D-482: “Reminiscences, chiefly of adventures that never happened, by a senile braggart.” Original blue cloth with gilt stamping spine and front cover. Some wear..... More
San Francisco, CA: Sunset Magazine Homeseekers' Bureau for the Yolo County Exposition Commission, (1915). 8vo. 32 pp. Illustrated, map. Original color illustrated glossy wrappers, stapled. Very good. Promotional for Yolo County, lying between Napa and Sacramento, published for distribution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Rocq 2022. More
(Modesto, CA: The author, 1967). Second edition (first published 1963). 4to. 496 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, maps, color plates from paintings. Gilt-stamped red cloth, decorated dust jacket. Very good. More
[NP: American Society of Civil Engineers], 1885. Black lettered grey paperwraps. 24 cm. 39, (1, blank), 5, 5 pp. Five charts, including one folding. Chipping to spine, browning to edges of wraps, else a very good copy. Paper read at a meeting of the society, May 6, 1885. According to..... More
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke Co., 1904. First edition. 8vo. 312 pp. Illustrated, plates, maps. The author and his wife, residents of West Virginia, journeyed from White Horse to Dawson, with a little hunting and fishing along the way, as part of a trip through the Western United States and Canada. Original..... More
Colfax, IA: Railroad Car Press, c1977. First edition. Oblong 4to. (6), 88 pp. Mostly captioned illustrations from photographs, plates, one in color, schematics, car roster. Signed by the author on the title page in the year of publication. Comb-bound color illustrated stiff wrappers. Small owner’s label at head of title..... More
St. Louis, MO: R.P. Studley & Co., 1883. First edition. 8vo. (4), 336 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author (not included in later issues). Howes E-111: "Council Bluffs Indian agent, 1834; with Doniphan's expedition, 1846." Graff 1236: "Elliott was an Indian agent at Council Bluffs in the thirties and went..... More
Canby, OR: Publishing House of the Clackamas News, c1916. First edition. 8vo. 53, (1) pp. Illustrated from line drawings. Historical sketches of the Walla Walla and Columbia River Railroad. Original cloth-backed decorated boards. Very good. More
Edmonds, WA: Pacific Fast Mail, 1977. First edition. Oblong 4to. 381 pp. [triple-column text]. Illustrated from photographs, some in color, some folding, tables, illustrated endpapers. “The Mountain Type locomotive, more than any other, fostered modern steam railroading in North America.” Gilt-stamped decorated red cloth, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated..... More
Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Co., (c1970). First edition 4to. 112 pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates, color plate from a painting, map, plans, diagrams, illustrated endpapers, folding map in rear pocket. Signed by the author on the title page. Gilt-stamped brown cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. Very good..... More
Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Co., (c1973). First edition, 1/750 copies (this #326) signed by the author. Large thick 4to. (16), 643 pp. Illustrated from photographs and old ephemera, plates, color plates from paintings, facsimiles, tables, diagrams, maps, two folding maps in rear pocket, illustrated endpapers. Gilt-stamped red cloth, color illustrated..... More
(Chicago, IL? The railroad?), nd (ca. 1940). First edition. vii, 263 pp. Folding map of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad. Original burgundy cloth, gilt spine title (dull). Very good. More
San Francisco: Printed for a Few Friends. "NOT PUBLISHED." [1880]. First edition. 8vo. 248pp. Field (1816-1899), a native of Connecticut, traveled to California in 1848, establishing a successful law practice in Marysville; elected to the state supreme court, he served 1857-1863, leaving to take a seat on the U.S. Supreme..... More
San Francisco: Printed for a Few Friends. "NOT PUBLISHED." [1880]. First edition. 8vo. 248pp. Field (1816-1899), a native of Connecticut, traveled to California in 1848, establishing a successful law practice in Marysville; elected to the state supreme court, he served 1857-1863, leaving to take a seat on the U.S. Supreme..... More
