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
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
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..... More
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. INSCRIBED BY OSCAR LEWIS. First edition, one of five hundred twenty-five..... More
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
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
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. More
[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
