St. Louis: Privately Printed, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. One of 500 copies issued. pp x, 132, + 20 pp of maps and illustrations, with original prospectus laid in. A very good copy with some foxing to the edges, in a very good..... Item #22954
St. Louis: Midwest Technical Publications, 1977. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. 416 pp, indexed. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the corners. Genealogical study of "the Chouteau family and their hundreds of descendents who played a major part in the development..... Item #22953
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine. 36 pp, with folding map, bound in paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Touch of rubbing to extremities and very minor soiling on back cover; else fine. No dust jacket. One of 300 copies, designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy, with calligraphic decorations..... Item #22949
Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association, [1923]. Hardcover. Verty Good. 5.25 x 7.5 in, 103 pp, with illustrations from photographs. Original pictorial boards. Some rubbing to corners, short gift inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked and sound. Urquhart was an American Adventist missionary to Korea, and by the..... Item #22948
San Francisco: Pioneer Press, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. viii, 315 pp, with illustrations. Original red cloth, no dust jacket. Bumped corners, front hinge a bit wobbly; internals clean and sound. A work of fiction about mining featuring a cast of characters including mine owners, mining experts, wealthy women, international painters..... Item #22947
1953. Softcover. Fine. Facsimile of the 1925 edition. Stapled booklet with photographic illustrations. As new. Six Guns 1789 (referring to the first edition): "Contains information on the Daltons, the Doolin gang, and other Oklahoma outlaws." Item #22945
Bar Lazy J Guest Ranch, 2000. Softcover. Fine. Stapled booklet, 15 pp, with illustrations from photographs. As new. History of this Parshall, Colorado dude ranch, which has been in operation since 1912. Item #22944
Detroit: Detroit Black Writers Guild, 1990. Softcover. Good. 159 pp. Moderate cover wear (creasing, fraying of paper, ink scribble on front cover), internally clean, with some general wear from use. According to the introduction, "The Black Writers' Guilf was founded in 1983 as a non-profit organization for the specific purpose..... Item #22943
Colorado Springs: 1993. Softcover. Very good. 78 pp. Signed by author on front blank. Light handling wear; very good. Account of life as a missionary in Kodiak, Alaska in 1968. The author and her husband were associated with the Kodiak Baptist Mission, which celebrated its centennial in 1993. Item #22942
Kritstiana: Finse Hotel, Printed by Kirste & Sieberth. Softcover. Very good. Uncommon souvenir view book for the Norwegian mountain village of Finse and the Bergen Railway (Bergensbanen), with photographs by the prolific photographer Anders Beer Wilse (1865-1949). 24 pp, including illustrations, advertisements, and short text in Norwegian, English, and German..... Item #22925
Chicago: Rio Grande Press, 1965. Hardcover. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1854 edition, complete in two volumes. Fine copies in brown buckram with gilt lettering. Jenkins (Basic Texas Books) describes this as "the most scholarly and scientific description of Southwest Texas of its era," as well as "one of the..... Item #22924
Guatemala: c. 1862. Very good. Rare carte-de-visite (CDV) photograph, 6 x 10 cm, of Guatemalan President Rafael Carrera, with the backstamp of itinerant American photographer William C. Buchanan, one of the first photographers to work in Guatemala. Carrera (1814-1865) was one of the most powerful figures in nineteenth century Central..... Item #22923
[Washington]: 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A very good copy with some foxing and toning, in a recent binding of quarter-cloth and marbled boards. pp. 55-108, with 7 folding tables. Correspondence related to the first Indian War fought by the U.S. Army west of the Missouri - an 1823..... Item #22918
New York: French Press and Information Service, [1945]. Softcover. Good. 8.25 x 10.75 in., 16 pp, with six half-tone illustrations showing the Saint-Laurent Penitentiary, political and economic map of French Guiana on back cover. Stapled wrappers. Light staining, edgewear, abrasion to wrappers -- good. Written for an American audience, this..... Item #22917
London: Richard Phillips, 1807. Hardcover. Very good. First edition of the English translation, abridged from the original French of 1805. 8vo, pp 106, [2] (index), in a modern quarter-leather binding. Embossed stamp of the Gorham Library Association on title page, number written in ink at bottom of first text page..... Item #22902
London: J. Murray, 1791. First edition in English. 8vo. Vol. I: xiv, 2-289, with folded aquatint frontispiece; Vol. II: iv, 261, [3] (ads). Ex-library copies in recent three-quarter leather and marbled boards, new endpapers. Library ink stamps on three pages in each volume, foxing to first and last few pages..... Item #22898
London: John Murray, 1817. Second edition, following the privately printed edition issued earlier the same year. 8vo, pp. viii, 194,c, [4] (publisher's ads), with folding map by A. Arrowsmith titled "Sketch of a Part of the Hudson's Bay Company Territory," in paper-covered boards with paper spine label. Front board original..... Item #22897
Hardcover. Very good. Bound typescript with no publication information given, but identified in OCLC as "a translation made by Antionette Hotovitzky in 1935 of the original Russian ed., St. Petersburg, 1847, omitting the Indian vocabularies in the originals." [vii] 422 pp, with text on rectos only, bound in green cloth..... Item #22894
Austin: E.L. Steck Co., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 474 pp, in original green cloth stamped in gilt. Minor wear and abrasion to corners, else a fine copy. This was first serious attempt to tell the story of the part women played in the early years of Texas and..... Item #22891
Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1953. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo, pp xii, 310, [10], with 3 plates and 7 maps (4 folding). Number 3 of 300 signed and numbered copies, with an additional personal inscription to Robert Emmett Lucey, Archbishop of San Antonio. Ink stamp of the Catholic Archives of San..... Item #22888
Mexico: A. Frank de Sánchez, 1955. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition (published in the same year as the first). L, 321 pp, with portraits, facsimiles, and a map, in original two-tone full-leather binding. Corners and bottom edges scuffed, pages toned, subtle ex-library indications, else clean and sound. The first 50..... Item #22886
Detroit: Detroit Library Commission, 1928-1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes, pp 657, 829, with illustrations, maps, fascimiles, in original binding of three-quarter black leather and tan cloth. Scuffing to extremities, frontispiece laid in loose in Volume II, else about fine. John Askin was a pominent fur trader and..... Item #22885
14.5" x 9" photograph with extensive hand-coloring, showing Fig Tree John standing outside of his home with an unknown white man. Photograph has small spots of damage and is slightly rippled. There is a penciled caption of some kind at the bottom, but it is partially cut off, and we..... Item #22877
Oakland, CA: Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries and Landmarks, Magnes Memorial Museum, 1964. Softcover. Fine. Stapled pamphlet, 26 pp. Fine condition. Inscribed on the inside front cover by Hal Altman, Chairman of the Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries. Item #22874
10" x 14" black leather album containing 275 photographs (ranging in size from ca. 3.5" x 5.5" to 6" x 8") and 5 large (8" x 10.25") autochroms. These high-quality images document one of the earliest commercial around-the-world cruises. American tour operator Frank C. Clark chartered the Hamburg-American Line ship..... Item #22861
