New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing (first published 1927), inscribed by James on the front free endpaper in 1932. xii, 242 pp, with illustrations by the author. Bookplate of the inscribee, Helen Hull Monnette (daughter of Bank of America founder Orra Eugene Monnette), on front..... Item #21199
![Item #21199 Cow Country [SIGNED]. Will James](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21199_0001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1594963325)
Middletown: Loomis & Richards, 1815. Hardcover. Good. First edition of Richard Alsop's expanded version of Jewitt's "Journal Kept at Nootka Sound" (Boston, 1807).12mo, 203 pp, with frontis illustration of the ship Boston in Nootka Sound, in contemporary full-leather binding with gilt spine label. Frontis shaved at lower margin (minimal loss..... Item #22572
Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Southern Railway Company, 1911. Softcover. Good. 10" x 6.5", pp. 153-190 + ads. Stapled binding. Chips, staining to cover edges, internally very good. Issue 35 of this scarce and interesting publication from the Kansas City Southern Railway Company. Includes advertising for agricultural and industrial real..... Item #23117
Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 178 pp + index, bound in flexible embossed buckram boards, with map endpapers. Light rubbing along front joint, else fine. "The Hastings Cutoff was an alternative route for westward emigrants to travel to California, as proposed by Lansford..... Item #22806
Chicago: C.F. Gates, 1886. Softcover. Very good. 5.75 x 3 inches, 10 pp, accordion folded pamphlet. Some creasing; very good. The main body of this densely printed text reprints an article from "The Interior" by Kelsey, a Lake Forest University Professor. He argues for the need for mission work among..... Item #20879
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1844. Hardcover. Good+. First edition in first state binding, with 1844 date at base of spine. Vol. I: 405 pp, with 2 lithograph plates and folding map (Texas and Part of Mexico and the United States showing the Route of the First Santa Fe Expedition);..... Item #22854
Boston: George A. Chapman, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 132 pp, in original plain brown cloth. Some chips in cloth at spine, front board just holding on, moderate foxing throughout. Small label "Coll. Immac. Conc. S.J." on front pastedown. A scarce account by the last man jailed in the..... Item #18533
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 304 pp, illustrated. Light foxing throughout, mostly confined to the margins. Original brown cloth binding with image of the Mission House stamped in gilt on the front board. Corners and spine ends rubbed, small losses to spine cloth. Item #22803
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1835. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes bound in three-quarter black morcocco and black cloth, with raised bands, gilt spine lettering, marbled edges. A very good set with some scatered foxing, housed in a custom slipcase. Clark III, 62: Latrobe came to America..... Item #22855
New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xxx, 271 pp + illustrations from photographs. Publisher's green cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Light wear to edges, scuff mark and fading to spine, internals very clean and sound. No dust jacket. Includes chapters on the national..... Item #2627
Los Angeles: The Westerners Los Angeles Corral, 1978. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 247 pp, with color frontispiece and illustrations tipped in, b/w illustrations, index, illustrated endpapers. Slight wear to edges; else clean and sound. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear with crease to rear panel..... Item #2182
![Item #2182 Brand Book XV [15]. Anthony L. Lehman](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2182.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1496794790)
Concord, NH: Daniel Cooledge, 1813. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition (first published 1809). 16mo, 143 pp, with wonderful wood-engraved sheep vignette on title page. Contemporary binding of calf-backed marbled boards with black spine label. Bookplate of Catholic priest and book collector Joseph M. Gleason on front pastedown. Five-digit number ink-stamped..... Item #21533
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, 1934. University of Arizona Bulletin Volume V, No. 2, February 15, 1934. 142 pp, with folding map at rear. Mild tanning and shelfwear; very good. First English-language biography of Jesuit missionary Father Eusebio Kino (1645-1711(, who spent 24 years working in what is now Sonora..... Item #22297
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961. First Edition. hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. "The Epic of the Alamo seen as a great national experience." Near fine copy with minor creasing to the spine cloth, in a very good jacket with some chipping at the spine ends..... Item #22520
![Item #22520 A Time to Stand [SIGNED]. Walter Lord](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22520_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1663649891)
London: Richard Bentley, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 7.75" x 4.75", pp xii, [13]-308; vii, [1], [9]-328 pp, in original brown blindstamped cloth, spines decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers with publisher's advertisements. Chipping to cloth at spine ends, old repairs visible at joints, but still an attractive..... Item #22524
Philadelphia: B. Graves, 1806. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp v, [1],648 + index, with one folding table, in original full calf with red spine label. Leather scuffed, corner torn from table, with small loss of text, otherwise sound and clean. Bookplate of Benjamin Lincoln Lear (1792-1832, attorney and..... Item #22543
Chicago, IL: Rand, McNally & Company, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 325 pp + advertisements, with frontispiece, illustrations, in original blue cloth with beveled edges. Light rubbing to extremities, gift inscription on front blank; otherwise unmarked and sound. Majors was one of the founders of the Pony Express. Late..... Item #23011
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1856. First Edition. 7.5" x 4.5", pp 2 (ads), 224, in publisher's brown cloth with blind-stamped image of a camel and rider on front board. Corners and spine ends rubbed, small loss of cloth at fore edge of front board, internally clean and sound. Marsh was..... Item #22586
New Castle, PA: W.B. Thomas, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 7.5" x 5", 262 pp, with frontis portrait of Rose, in original blue cloth with decoration in black and gilt. Insect nibbling to cloth, short note in ink on verso of frontispiece, otherwise clean and sound. Rose was a...... Item #22591
Paris: Chez Frouelle, 1788. First Edition. Complete set of four parts bound in three volumes. 8vo, pp. 383; 259; 292; 366. In a soiled and partly damaged contemporary full leather binding, and with old staining from damp and mildew (nothing active, no bad odors) to varying degrees in all three..... Item #21538
Santa Fe: El Palacio Press / Historical Society of New Mexico, 1926. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 40 pp, with 3 illustrations from photographs and a folding chart, in original illustrated wrappers. Light general handling wear; tight binding, text clean. Includes a short sketch of the life and character of..... Item #21713
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. First printing. 458 pp, indexed, in original blue cloth binding. Upper corners bumped, else a fine copy, in a clean, priced dust jacket with very slight rubbing to corners. Rittenhouse 425: "Acknowledged as the most scholarly work..... Item #23161
Denver: Fred Rosenstock, The Old West Publishing Co., 1964. Hardcover. Near fine. Folio, pp. liv, 341, with illustrations, maps, and facsimiles. Presentation copy, signed by both the editor, Dale Morgan, and the printer, Lawton Kennedy, in the three-quarter leather binding and slipcase used for the 250 (of a total edition..... Item #22883
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Printed by Lawton Kennedy in an edition of 530 copies. Large folio in original brick red cloth, 86 pages, with four maps bound in (three folding) and three folded in a rear pocket. Signed by both Morgan and Wheat..... Item #22691
![Item #22691 Jedediah Smith and His Maps of the American West [Signed by Both Authors]. Dale L....](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22691_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669692428)
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
