Soft cover. Very Good. No publication information given. Stapled pamphlet, 68 pp, with 10 tables and charts. Inscribed on the cover "Dear Mr. Bledsoe / Worth Reading / + to pass on/ JM Davis / 5/19/38." Very faint date stamp (May 21 1938) also on front cover. Otherwise only minor..... Item #11918
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 493 pp, illustrated, in publisher's plum cloth, sunned to brown at the spine. Wear to edges of boards. Binding sound, contents clean, other than the author's name being written in ink under "A Haole" on the title page and..... Item #20528
Phoenix, AZ: Heritage, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. vii, 349 pp + index, with illustrations, bibliography. Very lightly bumped corners; else fine. Dust jacket shows minimal shelf wear. "Jean King beautifully captures the spirit of her great uncle, Arizona Charlie, who was a Legendary Cowboy..... Item #1012
Houston, TX: Stagecoach Press, 1962. Softcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 30 pp, in original pictorial jacket. Tiny stain to upper right corner, else fine. Dust jacket has faint staining to fore edge. "Here are the two scarcest original accounts of the most famous gunfight in the..... Item #1304
San Antonio, TX: 1902. Softcover. Very Good. 131 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, in original wrappers. Light handling, two small chips to rear cover; text clean. Nicely illustrated little survey of the early history of Texas, the Missions, and the Alamo. Item #2987
St Paul, MN: F.C. Bliss, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 224 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, index. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Some wear to extremities, three leaves chipped at the margin; pages a bit browned, all else very good. "In the compilation of this little work, the author..... Item #1889
Philadelphia: Thayer, Merriam & Co. Undated, ca. 1889. Publisher's broadsheet prospectus, 9.5 x 12 inches, for "Barnum's Own Book," apparently one of many editions of The Life of Barnum, the World-Renowned Showman, which came out under several different imprints in 1890. Printed on very thin paper, it has old tape..... Item #20775
Boston: True and Greene, 1825. First Edition. 22 pp, complete with original wrappers, but with the stitching perished, so gatherings are loose. Pink staining to front wrapper, edgewear, otherwise very good. Scarce pamphlet criticizing monopolies in general and, more specifically, the factions who opposed a new (toll-free) bridge in Boston..... Item #20637
Nueva York: Polhemus y Compania, 1901. First Edition. Title continues: Tomadas, por parte de México, Bajo la Dirección del Ingeniero Jacobo Blanco, Jefe de la Sección Mexicana de la Comisión Internacional de Limites que Restablecio los Monumentos en Anos de 1892 a 1895. 11 x 14 inches, oblong, in original..... Item #20564
Washington, D.C. [1850]. Single sheet folded to 10.75 x 8.25 inches with text on two of four pages. Folding creases; very good. An attractive illustrated circular soliciting veterans of the Indian Wars in the Old Northwest (1792, 1795), War of 1812, Seminole Wars (1835-36), and Mexican War to retain Gage's..... Item #20762
Small broadside and cabinet card photo of El-Joseph Robert Raycroft. Undated, but ca. 1905. Broadside measures 5.75 x 12 inches and has some old creases and short tears. Cabinet card is in fine condition and credited to photographer Geo. F. Reil of Chicago. Both of El-Joseph's parents were preachers, and..... Item #20692
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. Volume XX in the Western Frontiersmen Series. 300 pp. Fine copy with original prospectus laid in. Beale was a sailor, solder (and hero of the Mexican War), explorer, and Indian superintendent who shared friendship and adventures with John C. Fremont, Kit Carson..... Item #21001
Louisville, KY: Morton & Griswold, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4.25 x 7.25 inches, pp xii, [9]-101.Original purple cloth with black leather spine, title stamped in gilt on upper board. Some pale staining to boards, interior very clean. All six original plates present, but folding map supplied in facsimile. Variously..... Item #20259
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume X. xi, 793 pp, with Ives' map (18" x 19") laid in; index, bibliography. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Slight scuffing..... Item #19321
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. Blue cloth boards stamped on the spine in gilt; no dust jacket..... Item #18544
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. A fine copy bound in 3/4 red leather and marbled boards; signed by..... Item #17389
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. good. 8vo, xii, [4], 574+ [2] ads. Illustrated with engravings; 3 maps on one folding sheet. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine darkened, fraying to spine ends, corners rubbed, front hinge partially cracked. Embossed library stamp on a...... Item #13758
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile reprint of the 1859 edition published by D. Appleton and Company. 130 pp, bound in green cloth. Light shelf wear to boards, bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean and tight. No dust jacket. The author was a British Member of..... Item #2356
San Francisco: Henry Grobe, 1917. Sheet music. 10.5 x 13.5 inches, 5 pp. Old dampstaining to back wrapper, abrasion to upper corner front wrapper, partial split at spine; good. An example of the Indianist movement in American classical music, this composition was based on a text and melody transcribed by..... Item #20880
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 249 pp + illustrations, maps (one folding), with frontispiece, appendices, bibliography, index. Blue buckram. Boards very slightly bowed, else fine. No dust jacket. Western Frontiersman Series XVI. Chaput writes in the Foreword: "Aubry was no obscure petty trader..... Item #873
Lyndon, VT: 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 233 pp + ads, in original salmon pictorial wrappers, with frontispiece (of a burro) and additional small illustrations in the text. Chips to corners of front wrapper and lower spine, previous owner's signature on front wrapper; internally very good. A series of letters..... Item #20755
Chicago: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint. xv, 245 pp, with introduction by Storm; folding map. Tight binding, no markings, slight scuffing to boards. Item #12829
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xix, 291 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, index. Corners and spine ends rubbed, some minor pale staining to front board, contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Cook was a noted frontiersman and Army scout and owner of..... Item #1047
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1976. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of the edition of 1787. Edited and introduced by Noel Perrin, with 12 drawings by Mark Livingston. Clean and tight, with minimal wear, in a price-clipped dust jacket with one small chip in the..... Item #11647
Charlestown: Printed by C. Rand & Co, 1857. Only edition. 33 pp, in original printed wrappers. Chipping, wrappers partially detached from spine, tape repairs to verso of front wrapper; good. Scarce pamphlet, apparently published by the accused for the purpose of clearing his good name. Thomas M. Crossan (1819-1865) was..... Item #20778
