Search Results: U. S. History from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Norman: OU, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 1st printing. Cloth. 120pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Essays on writing the history of the American West by a fine historian. Fine in dj.

NY & Washington D. D.: Harper & Row & Library of Congress, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1st hardbound edition, 4to cloth. 228pp. Illust. Selected Reading. Index. List of Exhibition Items Not Illustrated. A sumptuous, well-produced book on the cowboy with lots of great vintage prints & photos. Material on Oklahoma included. Fine in near fine dj. No longer common. Oversized.

Renton WA: Renton New Journal, 1981. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Original newspaper, folded, March 30, 1981. Eight (8) pps with classified ads. Vg.

Lyons NY: Lyons Republican Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1st printing. Brown cloth. 93pp. Publisher's tipped in printed note on ffep re Roosevelt's speech & where / when delivered, and address by Betts also where / when. Frontispiece portrait of Betts. Subtitle continues, "... Direct Nominations, the Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall and the New York State Court of Appeals' Decision in the Workmen's Compensation Case." Pencil fos on ffep. Good copy. Moderately worn covers; some darkening & bit of diffused stain lower front cover. Scarce in 1st edition.

Claremont: Blumenfeld and Associates, 1991. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Complete series of printed and stapled newsletters, bi-monthly beginning in 1991 and ending abruptly in 1998 (47 issues). Each newsletter is up to 20pp long and nicely printed on quality paper. Blumenfeld was, as I remember, and avid collector of the best books in several Western Americana fields, exploration, cattle trade, outlaws, fur trade, etc., and wrote with knowledge, if not academic authority. In these newsletters he expounds on hundreds of Western books and cites them bibliographically, noting the several great bibliographies for each subject. I (your bookseller) subscribed to this newsletter from the beginning and kept it up to end. Blumenfeld noted that he was going to go out with a bang, but after the fifth newsletter of 1998 he "disappeared." Laid in to the first set is one sheet typed and reproduced by Blumenfeld introducing his new newsletter. Also laid in is a small ruled yellow sheet, handwritten, welcoming… Read More

Durham: Privately published, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Very Good. UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT. "A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Duke University 1944." Quarto clothbound carbon copy with gilt title. 143pp. In this thesis, the author explains that the role of the female black domestic servant in the South is under attack and explains why. Because of the war, black men who did not go into the military were finding betting paying jobs at home and their wives did not need their domestic jobs. Among the other reasons was the purported, but false and widely circulating rumor of "Eleanor Clubs, named after Eleanor Roosevelt. The assertion was that Mrs. Roosevelt was encouraging black domestics to demand higher wages or quit their jobs, and the supposed motto was "a white woman in every kitchen by Christmas." Howard Odum's, Race and Rumors of Race: The American South in the Early… Read More

Austin: Dorothy Sloan, 1994. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st & presumably only printing. 4to pictorial wraps. Unpaginated. 165 entries. Illus. The first of the always fine and professionally described auction catalogues of books in Americana by the respected rare book dealer. Cover letter & addenda sheet laid in. Fine.

Wash. DC: Gov't Printing Office, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Good. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 202pp. Tables. Index. A detailed presentation of the condition on Indian reservations and agencies in the West. There is a huge amount of information in this report on all kinds of conditions and situations Indian delegations, crime, livestock, and much more. This was the period of time when the Grant Administration placed a lot of faith in the churches to represent the federal government on the reservations. Ely Parker, a Seneca, had been appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Conditions were mostly reported in a promising way, until it began to unravel. Wear to the corners, but a good copy with hinges sound.

Wash. D. C.: Center of Military History, U. S. Army, 1979. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good+. Pictorial wraps. 507pp. Bibliography. Index. Owner's embossment on ffep. A thick book of military essays. Lightly soiled; vg.

NY: Macmillan, 1934. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st printing of the revised, 1934 edition of the authors' 1921 work. Maroon cloth with titles blindstamped & decorated. 702pp. plus index and appendices: "Constitution of the United States," "Population of the United States by State," "Table of Presidents," " Population of the Outlying Possessions 1930 and 1920," "A Topical Syllabus." Illus. In the Preface, the Beards state, "This is no superficial revision (of the 1921 book). On the contrary the original text has been entirely rewritten and thoroughly simplified to meet the new demands on high schools..." The authors go on to say that due to changes in the "spirit and substance of historical writing and the rapid advance of social studies in the schools," changes in their approach to writing the history were made. Near the conclusion of the Preface they say, Mankind lives not by politics alone nor by bread alone but also by things of the spirit which form ideals, inspire love of beauty, and… Read More

NY: Tudor, 1937. New Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth. 1,530pp. Illustrated appropriately with 400 b/w illustrations plus 12 color plates & two maps. Bibliography. Index. A massive amount of information! Fine in vg dj (clipped at all flaps corners possibly by publisher). Scarce in this nice condition with dj.

NYC: Flatiron Books, 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 290pp. Index. Still worth reading in the current environment. Tiny soil spot on front cover, else fine in fine dj.

Portland: Metropolitan Press, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 1st printing. Cloth with printed title label on spine. 318pp. Illustrated with portraits of some of the book collecting world's most recognized dealers and collectors from the 1930s. Endpaper maps. Presentation copy inscribed on the verso of the ffep. Laid in is the dust jacket of the 2nd printing of Skiff's other book, Adventures in Americana. This is a well-written account of the author's search, crisscrossing the United States, for fine books in the field of Americana. Fine in vg dj with minor chips, several wrinkles, & a couple of stains on the backstrip.

SF: Pacific Book Auction Galleries, 2005. Soft cover. Near Fine. Original catalogue. Pictorial wraps. 208pp. Illus. 570 well-described entries. Near fine.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2012. First Thus. Soft cover. As New. 1st printing of pictorial wrappers edition. 497pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Map. Fine, like new.

NY: Look, 1964. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Full issue of July 14, 1964 LOOK. Folio pictorial wraps. 102pp. Illus. Articles include: "A new Kenndy painting" by Norman Rockwell." Also "Can the GOP survive Goldwater" by Richard Wilson. Also, "Why Elections are no fun anymore" by David Brinkley. A timely issue! Vg.

Chicago: Abraham Lincoln Bookshop & privately printed, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st printing. Elegant red & gold on yellow-cream cloth. 78pp. Untrimmed fore edge. Laid in is the printed & folded prospectus. One very small blemish on ffep, else fine in original slipcase moderately worn at extremities.

Washington DC: House of Representatives, 1900. 1st printing in wrappers. Soft cover. Good. Disbound original printed report HR Doc. N. 142, 56th Congress, 2nd Session. 39pp. "A report from the Secretary of State, with Accompanying Papers, in Relation to the Lynching, in LaSalle County, Tex., on October 5, 1895, of Florentino Suaste, a Mexican Citizen." The secretary, "out of humane consideration and without reference to the question of liability of the Government of the United States, of the sum of $2,000, to be paid by the Secretary of State to the Government of Mexico, and by that Government distributed to the heirs of the above-mentioned Florentino Suaste." As stated, this is a report of the case and the recommendations. It contains many details of associated crimes. This was during the William McKinley administration. Good. Scarce.

Sharon MA: Michael Ginsberg, 1985. Original. Soft cover. Very Good. 63 original catalogues from the fine dealer in Americana, Michael Ginsberg. Most of the 63 issues are from the 1980s and are staple bound in colored quarto wraps; a dozen or so are sheets stapled. The bibliographical information in these catalogues is superb. Notation in pen on front cover corners as to month/year of arrival, and some additional notations. Vg to fine.

Lawrence: Univ Press of Kansas, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 319pp. Essays on Sources. Index. Fine in dj.