Autograph letter in a beautiful hand, on Ross' pictorial letterhead. Hutto, Texas, 1914. 8.5 x 11 inches, framed with clear glass on verso so entire letter can be read. Very good. Born in Ohio in 1867, Grant P. Ross moved to Texas in 1879, when his father obtained a homestead..... Item #20872
Washington DC: J. & G.S. Gideon, 1849. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 16 pp, in original self-wrappers. Some handling wear, light foxing. Preston proposed the creation of a single new state from all of the former Mexican territory. It was generally assumed that this would not be a slave state..... Item #1533
Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1913. Softcover. Very good. 101 pp, with frontispiece. Light handling wear; clean and sound. Text is in English and Spanish. "On July 17th and 18th, 1781, the Yuma Indians rose against the Spaniards and, at or near the villages of San Pedro y San Pablo..... Item #985
New York: Daniel Fanshaw, 1828. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, 10 pp, disbound. Light foxing, all else very good. Foundational document of the General Union, which according to one modern scholar "marked a new departure in the annals of American reform. Like the American Temperance Society, upon which it..... Item #16639
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Co., 1887. First Edition. Softcover. vii, 98 pp, original sewn self-wrappers. External soiling, paper over spine lacking, but internally clean and sound. Good. Sloan offers a point-by-point rebuttal to accusations against the Mormons made in the House of Representatives, which he says repeat widely..... Item #14734
Philadelphia: Printed by Ormrod & Conrad for J. Ormrod, [1797]. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 46 pp, in a later binding of 3/4 polished calf and marbled boards. Rubbing to corners and joints, evidence of bookplate removed from front pastedown, embossed library stamp on title page and pg. 46, otherwise very good..... Item #20588
1904. [31] pp, with illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Spine covered with archival tape, line in ink on the margin of one page, otherwise clean and sound. In 1898, the Salvation Army undertook a project intended to relocate urban working poor people to rural areas and enable them to..... Item #20638
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xx, 293 pp + illustrations from photographs, map, with frontispiece, bibliography, index. Light wear to boards, name and ink stamp on front endpaper, paper over front hinge splitting (but hinge sound); text clean. No dust jacket. Saunders was inspired..... Item #2583
New York: E. Wells Sackett & Rankin, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Pamphlet, 32 pp. Original printed wappers, but with cloth tape at spine (where this was probably once bound into a larger volume). Light handling wear including a few spots of discoloration to wrappers; contents clean. A review..... Item #1511
Deadwood, SD: Edward L. Senn, 1939. Softcover. Fine. Pamphlet, 4 x 7 inches, 15 pp, in original self-wrappers. Fine copy. Adams (Six-Guns) 1976: "The author makes an effort to debunk some of the unreliable statement of earlier writers." Item #20438
Softcover. Near fine. 8vo, 23 pp, in stapled self-wrappers. No publication information given, c. 1890. Abrasion to one spot on front wrapper, with loss of a few letters, else fine. An original Oneida Community member offers (for posterity) an explanation and defense of Perfectionism and the community's other doctrines and..... Item #19057
Andover: Warren F. Draper, 1857. First Edition. Pamphlet, 24 pp, in original sewn wrappers. Author's name and an old ink stamp on the front wrapper, else clean, with a mild vertical crease and light handling wear. Very good. Shedd (1820-1894) was a distinguished Presbyterian theologian and enthusiastic supporter of colonization..... Item #17948
New York: Damon & Peets. Undated sideshow pitch book, c. 1880. 3 x 4.5 inches, 16 pp, in original illustrated wrappers. One full-page illustration and 2 within the text. A few small chips/short tears; very good. Waino and Plutano (also called Plutanor) were a pair of exceptionally strong dwarf brothers..... Item #19343
Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Senate issue (32d Congress, 2d Session, Executive, No. 59). Complete as issued, with 198 pp + 79 lithographed plates (23 views, 6 mammals, 5 birds, 21 reptiles, 3 fish, 21 botanical plates) and large folding map. Original brown cloth, with chipping and..... Item #18346
Salem, Oregon: Printed for the author at the Oregon State Penitentiary, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 262 pp. A fine copy in original cloth. Webb spent ten years incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary, providing him with more than sufficient material for this reasoned and well written critique. He argues..... Item #14968
Pierre, SD: South Dakota Rural Credit Board. Undated, but 1930s. Four-panel brochure, 3.5 x 8.5 inches when folded. Fine. Feeling like a cog in the machine or a slave to industry? South Dakota is the answer! This 1930s promotional piece seeks "real men and women" to settle on the state's..... Item #19885
Chicago: Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, 315 pp, with index. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Light wear to boards and edges, spotting to fore edge; text clean, but with a slight odor, possibly of tobacco. Includes a historical introduction, and the narratives of..... Item #2579
New Orleans: J.S. Rivers, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 300 pp, with six folding plates in full color. An ex-library copy, deaccessioned after donation to Abilene Christian University by the estate of Texas historian Abigail Curlee Holbrook, and also with the 1885 ownership signature of Hattie St. Clair of San..... Item #20777
Boston: Deland and Barto, Printers, [1883]. Softcover. Very good. Six-panel, accordion-folded booklet cut into an unusual shape (a rectangle with two corners cut off). One short closed tear, minor foxing at the folds. John L. Stoddard (1850-1931) was a popular American traveler, photographer, and lecturer. Although the 10-volume set of..... Item #19962
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939. Hardcover. Fine. #25 of 500 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. 8 x 10.5 inches, 333 pp, indexed, with a color frontispiece, 103 illustrations from old prints and photographs, and endpapers and chapter heads by Wiese. Original brown cloth, stamped..... Item #14163
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Denver, CO: Reinert Publishing. Hardcover. Good. 151 pp + index + publisher's catalogue, with frontispiece, illustrations. Shelf wear and soiling to boards, hinges a bit wobbly, gift inscription on front free endpaper; text clean. No dust jacket. From the Foreword: "The stories here collected, and which have been published previously..... Item #2338
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950. Hardcover. Near fine in a good dust jacket. xviii, 122 pp, with illustrations, bibliography. Light spotting to top edge of text block, else fine. Dust jacket has significant losses from biopredation to rear panel; now in mylar. The dust jacket describes this volume..... Item #1361
1961. Softcover. Very good. 8.5 x 11 inches, stapled at the upper corner. [11] pp, extensively illustrated from photographs, one map. One horizontal folding crease, otherwise minimal wear. Provides a brief but useful history of Jacksonville, Oregon, along with a historic walking tour. Item #14556
Perth Amboy, NJ: Yukon Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. "Rollicking Ballads of the Last Frontier." 232 pp. Tight binding, minimal wear. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket has some chipping and short tears. Swerdloff worked and traveled..... Item #11905
Wasburn, ND: 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. Published by the author. Second edition, revised and enlarged. pp 218 pp + [4]ads. Re-bound in modern blue cloth. Tight and unmarked, with minimal wear, but some mild age-toning to the pages. Taylor was among the first white men to take up residence in..... Item #11732
