Denver: Sundance Limited, [1974]. Oblong 8vo. Plastic comb binding along top. 13 leaves. Near fine. Handsome, never-written-in copy of this noted annual calendar featuring a color locomotive scene for each month. In original, worn shipping envelope -- which explains the unusually pristine condition of this example! More
Denver: Sundance Limited, [1975]. Oblong 8vo. Plastic comb binding along top. 13 leaves. Fine. Handsome, never-written-in and apparently unused copy of this noted annual calendar featuring a color locomotive scene for each month. More
Denver: Sundance Publications Limited, [1977]. Oblong 8vo. Plastic comb binding along top. 13 leaves. Fine. Handsome, never-written-in and apparently unused copy of this noted annual calendar featuring a color locomotive scene for each month. More
Silverton: Sundance Publications Limited, [1984]. Oblong 8vo. Plastic comb binding along top. 13 leaves. Fine. Handsome, never-written-in and apparently unused copy of this noted annual calendar featuring a color locomotive scene for each month. More
Jefferson City: The Hugh Stephens Press, 1925. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth. 116pp. Tables. Very good. Minor cloth discoloration. Detailed collection of tables outlining the state's expenditures. More
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, n.y., [1965]. Paperback. Folio. Stiff tan portfolio housing 4 folio color prints (complete, as issued) and 1 small 4to pamphlet. Very good/near fine. Portfolio lighty soiled and with minor edgewear; prints near pristine. Inner pocket flap text briefly describes the Smithsonian Institution's 1961 exhibit..... More
[Indio, CA: Shields Date Gardens], n.y., [ca. late 1960s]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 39pp. Numerous illustrations, maps. Very good. Tight and attractive later printing of the 1957 fifteenth edition -- a promotional piece for this landmark seller of dates, a local tourist attraction. More
N.p. Paramount, n.y., [ca. 1980?]. Paperback. Oblong 8vo. Stiff blue wrappers bound with 3 metal prong-type clasps. 3 text pages (rectos only), 3 glossy black-and-white photographs (8" X 10"). Near fine. Interesting "Paramount Portfolio 3" press kit sent by the studio to network affiliates for the re-release of this 1959..... More
N.p. Greeley & M'Elrath, 1856. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 32pp. Frontispiece engraved portrait plus 2 full-page steel engravings. Good only. Tight and without edgewear or edge chips, but varying discolorations and dampstains throughout. First edition of this brief early biography of the explorer. First edition of this brief early biography of..... More
Palo Alto: American West Publishing Company, 1973. Hardcover. Compiled by the editors of American West. 4to. Blue leatherette spine and grey cloth, blue paper over boards slipcase. 285pp. Frontispiece, several illustrations (many color), maps. Near fine. Book plate removal mark on front pastedown. First edition, from "The Great West Series..... More
Helena: The Historical Society of Montana, 1962. Paperback. Small 4to. Color pictorial wrappers. 96pp. Numerous photographs, maps. Near fine. Volume 12, Number 2, the Spring 1962 issue with the cover story "The Civil War in the West." More
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1965. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt decoration. 37pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Memorial to this Texas politician, with a bookplate of the Executive Mansion Library, Springfield, Illinois, on the front flyleaf. More
San Francisco: The National Color Press, 1943. Small 4to. Stiff tan pictorial folder housing 16 color prints. Very good/near fine. Probable sole edition of this set of prints depicting "points of interest along Southern Pacific Lines." A handsome set. More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1905. Hardcover. Small 4to. Original blind-embossed olive green cloth, gilt lettering. 143pp. Frontispeces with tissue guards. Near fine. Slightest bit of faint edgewear. Tight, pristine first edition. Eleven popular Texas and Southern politicos of the day speechify in honor of these Texas founding fathers. A...... More
Santa Clara, CA: University of Santa Clara, 1963. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 16pp. Very good. Outer wrappers (only) very slightly rubbed, else fine. From the private library of JOHN BEECHER (1904-80), noted social protest poet and fine press publisher. His wife, artist Barbara Beecher (1925-2016), neatly inks "See..... More
Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co., 1977. Paperback. Introduction by Benedict A. Leerburger. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 656pp. Near fine. Tight and attractive facsimile reprint, "unedited and unabridged," from the 8-volume "Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 1863-1866." More
Boston: Edward Morrill & Son, Inc., n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. 40pp. Near fine. Tight, attractive undated (circa 1970) catalogue of 637 Western books, pamphlets, broadsides, autographs, maps, etc. offered by the noted east coast dealer. More
New York: Bonanza Books, [1960]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 191pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine/near fine. An absolutely superb, tight and bright first reprint edition of this outstandingly-illustrated (to cite front jacket panel) "collectors album of a vanishing era in railroadiana," first published by Superior -- concluding..... More
Austin: The Encino Press, 1972. Hardcover. Line drawings by James R. Snyder. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 151pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. First edition of this collection of essays. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 479pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Book club edition of this large and ambitious history, tight and clean. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, [1972]. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 186pp. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket wear. Just a tight and nice book club edition of this fiction set in the Old West -- Texas -- in the 1890s. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961. Hardcover. Illustrations by Nick Eggenhofer. Small 4to. Mustard cloth with gilt and red spine lettering, pictrorial dust jacket. x, 354pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. 1966 ownership name/city on front pastedown; jacket slightly edgeworn and jacket spine faintly sunned. Handsome, nicely tight first edition. More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. Hardcover. Small 4to. Orange cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 205pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Dust jacket slightly rubbed. Second printing of this study of western one-industry settlements. More
[New York]: Time-Life Books, [1983]. Hardcover. 8vo. Full brown blind-embossed calf with gilt lettering. xvi, 302pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations, marbled endpapers, sewn-in yellow silk page marker. Fine. Tight, handsome facsimile of the 1903 A.W. Bowen & Co. first edition. Part of this publisher's "Classics of the Old West"..... More
New York: Hastings House Publishers, [1956]. Hardcover. Revised by Joseph Miller. 8vo. Tan cloth with black lettering. xxv, 532pp. Illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Very good. Faint binding edgewear. A tight and quite nice copy of this revised edition of the 1940 Work Projects Administration volume -- part of the "American..... More