Give Me Room! by Hughes Delbert Littrel - 1971

New York: Antiquarian Press 1961, an unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 750. (Hardcover) 405pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Burgundy cloth with gilt decoration. Frontispiece, photographs, tables, index. (Western America, Autobiography, Cowboys, Ranch Life).

Westernlore Press, LA, 1967. HBDJ, 1967, 1st edition, minor rub DJ & small mended tear, VG/VG, Light X-Library Stamp top Edge outer pgs, but no other Markings, blank endpapers light residue. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Monrovia, CA: Press of the Monrovia News. Near Fine. 1915. First Edition. Soft Cover. Clean tan soft pictorial cover with a closing flap for mailing. Ca: 1915. Illustrated with sepia photographs. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Of all the lovely suburbs of Los Angeles, none offers such alluring attractions as Monrovia. West, Southern California, Monrovia, Los Angeles; Sepia Photographs; 8vo; 34 pages .

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed [9.25x6.25in]; xiii, [10], illustrations, 422 pp., frontispiece color illustration of sea otter by John Webber, 11 illustrations of plates from exploration books by Cook, Vancouver, Dixon, and others, nine tables of trade ships by years, extensive notes and bibliography, index; Black cloth cover with gilt lettering and designs on spine, tan end papers with maps of the world routes and Northwest coast [of North America], all edges trimmed; Black dust jacket with white and tan lettering on front and spine inside white borders with designs, brown-toned illustration of sea otter by Webber on front, review of book on back; Negligible shelf wear to book or dust jacket, short inscription by author on title page. This is a readable scholarly on the fur trade system from the Pacific Northwest to China and then to Europe and America in the late 1700's and 1800's. Gibson is a professor that has focused on geography and… Read More

Large quarto (14 X 10 1/2 inches) San Francisco: David Magee, 1967. One of 475 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem. 171 pages printed on heavy wove paper, quarter bound brick red leather with title in gilt on the spine, patterned paper over boards, hardcover - very good condition (minor scuffing at head and tale of spine from shelf wear, not affecting contents).

Illustrated with 60 plates - full size reproductions showing examples of California Gold Rush letter sheets - one facsimile is in a pocket at the rear of the book. Also included: a selective bibliography; an index of artists, engravers, lithographers, and publishers; and a subject and title index.

A checklist and census of artists and printers who produced "... thousands of vivid pictorial records on sheets of writing paper, (that) remain the major surviving visual account of California of that era....," both during and after the California Gold Rush.

"A . . . curious blend of local enthusiasm and topical recording ...… Read More

Westernlore Press, LA, 1967. HBDJ, 1967, 1st edition, minor rub DJ & small mended tear, VG/VG, Light X-Library Stamp top Edge outer pgs, but no other Markings, blank endpapers light residue. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Monrovia, CA: Press of the Monrovia News. Near Fine. 1915. First Edition. Soft Cover. Clean tan soft pictorial cover with a closing flap for mailing. Ca: 1915. Illustrated with sepia photographs. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Of all the lovely suburbs of Los Angeles, none offers such alluring attractions as Monrovia. West, Southern California, Monrovia, Los Angeles; Sepia Photographs; 8vo; 34 pages .

[Texas] [San Antonio] Adina De Zavala. History and legends of the Alamo and other missions in and around San Antonio. San Antonio: Standard Printing Co. 1917. Tan pictorial wraps. 20 cm. Illustrated. 219 pp. Rear cover separated; front cover corner bends, else very good.
Adina De Zavala led the opposition to tearing down portions of the Alamo "in a resolute and voluble stand" and was instrumental in the preservation of portions of the original wall of the convent. In fact, she barricaded herself inside the north barrack of the Alamo for three days in February 1908 to protest its destruction. In 1912 she organized the Texas Historical and Landmarks Association, which placed thirty-eight markers at historic sites in Texas. She probably did more than any other one person in stirring interest in the preservation of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio. – Handbook of Texas. A tireless protector of Texas history, De Zavala is now honored with a marker in the patio of the convent at the Alamo

Wheeler, Homer W. Buffalo Days, Forty Years in the Old West: The Personal Narrative of a Cattleman, Indian Fighter and Army Officer, by Wheeler Homer, with introduction by Major General James G. Harbord. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill. 1925. Second edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Illustrated. frontis, photos, 369 pp. Book and jacket are very good. Minor chipping at top of jacket spine. Howes W322, Rader 3627, Six Guns 2375, Herd 2499. Wheeler served also as a post trader and Indian agent and was in command of Fort Reno in Oklahoma Territory. Excellent on Indians and Indian government scouts. A chapter on Wild Bill Hickok and one entitled "Western Badmen."

[Texas] [Poetry] Allen, John Houghton. The Poetry of John Houghton Allen. [Dallas]: Privately published. 1944. Limited edition. Rust cloth with printed label. 27 cm. 78 pp. Partially uncut. Spots to cover. Front and rear pastedowns have some stains from glue bleed through. Front board with a bend. OCLC shows 15 holdings, nine in Texas (Austin Pub. Lib.; Baylor; SA Pub. Lib.; SMU [2]; TAMU-CC; Texas St. Univ.; Texas Tech; & UT-RGV.). One of 350 copies. Not signed. Possibly printed by the Kaleidograph Press. Allen, the author of Southwest, one of A. C. Greene's Fifty Best Books on Texas, grew up in south Texas on his family ranch in the days of Pancho Villa and Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. "John Houghton Allen writes with great sympathy for the people and the land where he lived …." – Greene.