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
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
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
West Las Vegas, NM: Our Lady Sorrow Church, 1972. Softcover. Very Good. Facsimile reprint of the 1849 edition. 98 pp + preface, index, appendix, glossary; one double-page map. Very slight wave to bottom corner of pages near binding from storage in a humid environoment, otherwise minimal wear. Text is in... Item #878
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 487 pp, with index, bibliography, notes. As new, in as-new jacket. "Beginning with the fights over water in the California gold fields, this volume carefully shows how for fifty years the West became... Item #14511
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a good dust jacket. x, 321 pp, with maps, index. Lightly bumped corners, bump to top edge on rear cover; binding tight, contents clean. Dust jacket shows shelf wear and some soiling. "This study of seven men provides... Item #3008
Eleven tickets, each printed on colored cardstock, with information about the event on the front and song lyrics (and, in a few case, local ads) on the back, some with small illustrations or decorative borders. Most include ticket prices and the names of bands or orchestras. Size ranges from 2.75... Item #19963
Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, 1894. Hardcover. Good. Later printing. 471 pp + advertisements, with frontispiece, illustrations .Pictorial cloth boards show shelfwear, hinges a bit wobbly, pages tanned. "The story, romance and adventures of a life on the plains with the varied experiences as cow-boy, stock owner, rancher, &c. &c." Adams... Item #2854
Austin: Book Club of Texas, 1995. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint of the first edition of 1884, a Zamorano 80 title. Limited edition of 300 copies, this one out of series and noted on the colophon as "Review Copy 4." Bound in blue cloth, 416 pp, 7.25" x 10.25", with 11 plates... Item #14402
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. Very good. vii, 98 pp, original wrappers. External soiling, internally clean and sound. Very good. Sloan offers a point-by-point rebuttal to accusations against the Mormons made in the House of Representatives, which he says repeat widely held assumptions that... Item #14734
Ashland, OR: Lewis Osborne, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. 53 pp + 14 plates, with illustrations in text, map endpapers. Spotting to edges of text block, faint glue stain to endpapers towards spine; else clean and sound. Number 109 of 650 numbered copies."A correct true account of earliest beginnings [of overland... Item #1364
Fort Wayne, IN: Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County, 1957. Soft cover. Near Fine. 11 pp, stapled wrappers. 3 illustrations. Previous owner's name inside front cover; minimal cover wear. Reprinted from an article published in 1956 in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Item #11609
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket. First printing. xi, 528 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, index. Boards soiled (looks like something splashed on them), contents clean and sound. Dust jacket has slight shelf wear. "He was a study in... Item #574
New York: Knapp Press, 1907. Only edition. 5 x 6.5 inches, in original illustrated wrappers. 54 pp, printed rectos only. Some old dampstaining visible on wrappers and page margins, otherwise very good. A scathing indictment of John D. Rockefeller, delivered in the form of a poem running 54 pages and... Item #19867
Tucson, AZ: Acme Printing Co., 1933. Hardcover. Good. xv, 201 pp + illustrations. Light shelf wear and soiling to boards, mild spine slant, tidemark to lower margin of first two leaves. Gift inscription signed at the Montana Mine in Ruby Arizona, 1936, as well as another ownership signature, on front... Item #2613
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Hardcover. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Revised and enlarged edition. 402 pp, with index, illustrations from photographs. Light spotting to top edge of textblock, offsetting to two pages where a piece of newspaper was used as a bookmark; else fine. Dust jacket... Item #20486
Seattle, WA: Superior Publishing, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. 123 pp, plus index. 8.5 x 10.75 inches. An as-new copy in a price-clipped and very lightly rubbed dust jacket. Includes "accurate illustrations of Indian implements, tools, and weapons which can no longer be seen... Item #13911
