New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. Hardcover. Good. Third edition, revised and enlarged (with mining content not found in the first edition). 251 pp, with frontis engraving of the Mowry Silver Mines. Original brown cloth boards are edgeworn, with corners rubbed through, chips at spine ends, and cloth partially split... (Item #2696)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, 311 pp, with illustrations from photographs. Original pictorial cloth, no dust jacket. Front hinge wobbly, corners lightly bumped; else sound and clean. Sketches of a variety of places in the Southwest including chapters on the Mesa Country, Land... (Item #963)
London: A.W. Bennett, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. pp. viii, 278, [2] (ads), frontis portrait of the author and 15 plates illustrating aspects of Ojibwe life and culture. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Edges trimmed, mild spine slant; very good. Jones (1802-1856) was a Mississauga... (Item #14866)
Kearny, NE: John A. Stryker. Undated, ca. 1920. 48 pp, 6 x 9 inches, oblong, in original string-tied wrappers, with oval cut-out window on front cover revealing color landscape below. Light soiling and edgewear to wraps, lower corner of last three leaves clipped; very good. Scarce promotional view book, containing... (Item #19881)
Buffalo, NY: Dodge Art Publishing Company, 1892. First Edition. Souvenir folder of lovely chromolithograph views of Lake Chautauqua in western New York. Cloth-backed paper boards, 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches when folded. Ten views in all, one mounted on the front cover and nine accordion folded inside, with one... (Item #18042)
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 456 pp, 2 maps (one folding), portraits. Original dark green cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends and corners slightly frayed, library call number on spine, card pocket on front pastedown, otherwise internally very clean. An... (Item #11908)
Winona Publishing, 1905. Hardcover. Near fine. 186 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece. Pictorial boards show a touch of wear at the corners. Contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. This volume is "a series of sketches of pioneer missionary history of early Oregon for young people. Its romantic beginnings, of... (Item #631)
Northern Pacific Railway. Wraps. Near fine. Undated, ca. 1916. 10 x 6-3/4" stapled chromo-litho- and gilt-printed cardstock wraps, unpaginated but 16 leaves printed recto and verso with text and b/w half-tone photographs, plans, and maps (one on a 2-page spread) within wide photographic peach/sepia borders; wraps a bit rubbed and... (Item #20295)
New York: Columbia University Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light general wear to boards, tight binding, no internal markings. No dust jacket. 379 pp, with index, notes, and bibliography. Examines disciplinary action in Massachusetts Congregationalist churches from the earliest known instances through about 1830. (Item #11367)
Portland: Portland Printing House, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 495 pp, extensively illustrated with "splendid halftone engravings and etchings of important incidents" and "the latest photographs of the principal actors in the great land fraud drama." Light wear to extremities; near fine. According to the Oregon Encyclopedia, "Stephen Puter... (Item #15562)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Hardcover. Very good. Reprint (first published 1919). 316 pp, with frontis portrait of the author's mother. Publisher's pictorial cloth, rubbed at extremities. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To W.S. Morton with the regard and friendship of Chase S. Osborn," and with Osborne's own... (Item #20468)
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Yale Western American Series No. 5. 10 x 14 inches. xxxv, 335 pp, with maps, illustrations, facsimiles, index. 8x10 pcolor photo of a map showing the Route of Lewis and Clark, 1805 laid in. Minimal... (Item #869)
Montgomery, AL: Alabama State Department of Archives and History, 1915. Softcover. Very Good. . 39 pp, in original wrappers. Handling wear to wrappers with one short (3/4 inch) tear at head of spine; text clean. Offprint rom the Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1915, Chapter XI, pp. 271-307. A useful... (Item #2373)
Buffalo, NY: E.H. Hutchinson, 1889. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 87 pp, in original printed wrappers. Mild soiling. The author was an attorney and Principal of the Buffalo Classical School. He traveled to Oregon, Washington, Alaska (primarily Sitka), and British Columbia in 1888, reporting back in a series of articles... (Item #14096)
London: John Long, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 190 pp, with frontis photo of Horn at the doorway of his cell in the Cheyenne jail. Light soiling to edges of text block, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has moderate edgewear and two... (Item #14305)
New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. xiv, 433 pp, illustrated. Three-quarter black leather over marbled boards. Leather well rubbed at extremities. Ownership stamp on 4 pages; otherwise unmarked, binding sound. The first 257 pages relate to California. Palmer, a doctor, arrived in San Francisco in... (Item #13797)
Philadelphia: 1869. Hardcover. Good. pp. 250 + folding profile (but lacking folding map). Modern red cloth binding with minimal wear, contents clean, profile in very good condition. An important railway survey that that opened vast areas of the west to public knowledge. This report describes efforts to determine the best... (Item #16538)
Boston: Little, Brown, 1899. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Illustrated Holiday edition. Two volumes in original cloth dust jackets, illustrated with 45 tissue-guarded photogravure plates. Bound in blue cloth illustrated in gilt, top edges gilt. A sound and attractive set with previous owner's name on the... (Item #15340)
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Sixth edition, revised. 8vo, pp xii, 381. One inch split in cloth at lower rear joint, mild wear to extremities, but overall a very attractive, clean copy. Reading-themed bookplate of Harrison Beauregard Donly and Emma Brook Donly on front pastedown. ANB... (Item #2533)
New York: Hurst and Company. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated reprint, c. 1900. 299 pp. Dark red cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Rubbed at the extremities, brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, clean and sound. (Item #12292)
New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation, 1961. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 346 pp. Clean, tightly bound, unmarked. Dust jacket spine is sunned at the spine and chipped at the corners. White House maid and seamstress Lillian Rogers Parks offers "the most lively and entertaining collection of memoirs... (Item #225)
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 299 pp, in publisher's silvery cloth binding, decorated in black. Corners lightly bumped, spine slightly sunned, internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. Part of the Southern Sketches series. (Item #451)
Salem, MA: Salem Press Publishing and Printing, 1891. Hardcover. Good. viii, 341 pp. Boards worn and soiled, name written on verso of last page, binding has some looseness to it, but still sound; text clean. Describes storms, comets, earthquakes, Aurora Borealis, winters, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, gales, meteors, avalanches, and other... (Item #2565)
New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago: Historical Publishing Company, 1886. 9.25 x 12 inches, pp [iv] 33-292, in original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt lettering reading " Industries of Pennsylvania" on upper board. Light rubbing to corners; rear board is dampstained, but interior is untouched, clean and sound. Very good. A.... (Item #20050)
Richmond, K[Y]: John A. Grimes, 1812. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8 vo, pp vi, 336. Recent quarter leather and marbled boards; spine with red label, gilt decoration, raised bands. Fine. Buchanan (1785-1829) was an inventor and lecturer on medicine. This work, written as a series of lectures for a yet-to-be-founded... (Item #14963)
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