New York: Worthington Co., 1888. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering and extensive black pictorial stamping. 452pp. Decorative endpapers. Very good. Spine slightly sunned; front inner hinge expertly, archivally strengthened, thus tight. A tight and attractive copy of this later edition, the "Franklin Edition," with spine gilt..... More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1963. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. xi, 50pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. "Compliments of..." inkstamped on front flyleaf. First edition, tight and sharp. Tribute to North Dakota's tenth governor (1859-1937). Famed Lincoln sculptor Avard Fairbanks created this superb full-length figure and speechifying from..... More

Seattle: John O. Bye, [1959]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (4pp), 470pp, (4pp). Color pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket typically edgeworn, with tiny corner chips. A tight and quite attractive first edition of this rather homespun production, dubbed "Farewell to the Old" on..... More

San Francisco: Cameron and Company, [1991]. Hardcover. Text by Herb Caen. Wide 4to. Tan cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 159pp. Extensive illustrations (most color). Near fine/near fine. A tight and attractive fifth printing of this 1986 collection. More

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1949. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xi, 222pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Some jacket edgewear and minor small chips. First edition. More

San Rafael, CA: Bridgeline Books, [2003]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 169pp. Very good. Faintest of edgewear only. Tight and attractive first edition of these stories from the Southwest's answer to James Herriot, and nicely inscribed and signed by him in blue fineline on title page: "Alesha -- /..... More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1966]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 423pp. Maps. Near fine/very good. First edition, tight and handsome. More

Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, [1972]. Hardcover. 8vo. Light brown cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 387pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition, signed boldly on the title page by Cashen in blue ballpoint. Fittingly, this copy hails from the library of another college president: Noted academic..... More

San Antonio: Carleton Printing Co., 1936. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff yellow wrappers. 69pp. Frontispiece, 2 illustrations. Very good. Minor soiling to wrappers. Handsome "Centennial Edition." More

New York: Coward-McCann, [1961]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 306pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgwear. A superb, tight first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "definitive book on the firearms that opened the frontier and conquered the American West." An outstanding, indispensable..... More

N.p. Joseph Choate, 1990. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. vi, 125pp. Illustrations. Fine. Probable sole edition. More

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 152pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Fourth "Bison Book" paperback edition of this 1976 Arthur H. Clark Company title. More

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Corral, [1961]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark and light green buckram with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 267pp. Numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear, mainly at head and tail of spine. Tight and quite handsome copy of this annual, limited to 550..... More