New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. 8vo. viii, [ii], 389 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece plus 7 full-page illustrations. Original publisher's decorated red cloth. An excellent copy, bottom edges uncut, signed by the author on the title page. First edition. "Perhaps the best known collection of stories of that romantic period... More about The splendid idle forties. Stories of old California
Toledo, Ohio: Blade Printing and Paper Co., 1886. 8vo. 43 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 4 full page woodcuts (1 map). Original printed wrappers, illustrated with a woodcut of Fort Meigs. Front wrapper detached, small stamp of the Garrett Biblical Institute as well as their Sold stamp to front wrapper. First... More about Fort Meigs. A condensed history of the most important military point in the Northwest, together...
Pasadena, CA: Trail's End, 1946. 8vo. 220 pp. FIRST DELUXE EDITION. Illustrated. Maroon leather, title in gilt on cover and spine; lightly worn. In original dust jacket (clipped). Number 71 of the deluxe edition signed by the author. The autobiography of the self-proclaimed last of the lone train robbers. More about Lone Bandit. An Autobiography
San Francisco: John Howell, 1929. 4to. xxxii, 422 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original linen-backed blue boards, spine label, minor spotting to spine, boards and all of interior exquisite. An excellent uncut and partially unopened copy. First edition thus, being an expanded version of Davis' earlier Sixty years in California (San Francisco... More about Seventy-five years in California
Dallas: Southwest Review, 1939. 8vo. 105pp. Tinted illustrations by Tom Lea. FIRST EDITION. Quarter brown cloth beige cloth with front cover titled in brown and spine titled in gilt. Near fine in a dust jacket with spine sunned and chipped, price clipped. First edition. More about John C. Duval: First Texas Man of Letters. His Life and Some of his Unpublished Writings
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1943. 8vo. 287 pp. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's beige cloth, in the original dust jacket; a fine copy, though the dust jacket is chipped with a two-inch closed tear on rear panel. First edition of this outstanding biography of an early Texas cattleman. Illustrated by Harold D. Bugbee. More about George W. Littlefield. Texan
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California, [1963]. Folio. [xiv, 42] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 21 plates, each preceded by a leaf of explanatory text. Original linen-backed patterned boards. An exquisite copy inscribed by Oscar Lewis. First edition, one of five hundred twenty-five copies printed by the... More about The wonderful city of Carrie Van Wie. Paintings of San Francisco at the turn of the century
New York: J.H. Colton, 1855. Large map. Folding map, with period hand colouring. Some tears. Bound into original publisher’s roan binding, covers elaborately blocked in blind, title on upper cover in gilt. More about COLTON'S RAILROAD & TOWNSHIP MAP WESTERN STATES COMPILED FROM THE UNITED STATES SURVEYS
Various: Various, 1851 - 1959. DOCUMENTS relating to the organization of the Illinois Central Rail-Road Company. New York: Geo. S. Roe, 1851. 4to. [iv], 146 pages printed on blue paper. Original half-calf. FIRST EDITION of this great rarity containing the Act of congress donating lands to the States of Illinois... More about A valuable collection containing many documents, 123 black and white photographs, and numerous...
Belleville, IL: privately published, 1855. 8vo. 600, xxiii, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece portrait of author. Original brown cloth, decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt, front joint starting, very light wear to extremities; other than some scattered foxing, an excellent copy with a contemporary ownership inscription. First edition... More about My own times. Embracing also, the history of my life
[Minneapolis]: [Privately published], 1888. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Green cloth decorated and titled in black and gilt on front cover and spine, boards lightly soiled and rubbed; previous owner's signature on front paste-down. First edition of the author's work on the early days of Fort Snelling and her travels through the... More about Three Score Years and Ten. Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota and Other Parts of the...
