Western Americana from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press / The Old Army Press, 1977. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 160pp. Very good/very good. Line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Binding a trifle spotted; jacket faintly edgeworn. A tight and nice first edition of this compilation of contemporary accounts of the deaths of famed gunfighters, among them Billy… Read more about this item

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Hardcover. Small 4to. xvi, 148pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear. Tight and sharp first edition of this history of Denver's drinking establishments.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with brown spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 304pp. Illustrations, map/pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Quite minor edgewear only to bright jacket; ownership signature on half-title page. Handsome first edition of this classic account -- here with a choice, relevant philatelic addition: Tipped to inner flyleaf is a… Read more about this item

San Antonio: The University Press, Inc, 1931. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with black lettering and pictorial stamping. 168pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Fainting binding edgewear, else tight and internally near fine. Attractive third printing of this account of the legendary Old West saloon keeper and justice of the peace (c. 1825-1903).

London: New English Library, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 381pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/fine. Superbly bright and tight first British edition.

N.p.: The University of New Mexico Press, 1951. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with silver spine lettering and front board decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 272pp. Line drawings, pictorial and map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Several jacket edges bear old tape. A tight and nice first edition of this well-regarded chonicle that tells (to cite jacket front panel) "The Truth… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Hardcover. Introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. xxvi, 291pp, vii. Near fine/very good. Quite minor edgewear to bright jacket. Attractive and tight first of this edition, a classic first published in 1885. A volume in editor Robert Glass Cleland and Oscar… Read more about this item

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. Hardcover. Introduction by Jay Monaghan. Small 8vo. Decorative green paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xvi, 282pp. Frontispiece, 4 illustrations. Fine/near fine. First of this edition, a volume in the "Western Frontier Library" series. Quite tight and handsome. This classic of Colorado adventure and exploration was first published… Read more about this item

Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1977. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 337pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear only; miniscule ownership name/address inkstamp on half-title page and dedication age. Handsome, tight first edition of this story of Colorado freight pioneer David Wood as told by his two daughters.… Read more about this item

N.p.: The Stewart Commission of Colorado College and The Denver Public Library, 1933. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xv, 244pp. Frontispiece, 4 illustrations, rear pastedown text. Very good. Faintest of binding wear only; ownership signature on title page; lacks dust jacket. Handsome first edition of the third volume (only) of the 4-volume "Overland to… Read more about this item

New York: Carlton & Porter, 1858. Hardcover. 12mo. Green blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering and pictorial stamping (rebacked with original spine laid down). 290pp, 2pp. Frontispiece, map, 14 wood engravings. Very good. Binding is a bit edgeworn and rubbed, though ornate spine gilt still bright; new endpapers (except front pastedown); text block tight and nice, though moderately age… Read more about this item

Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1976. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff wrappers. vi, 34pp. Frontispiece. Fine. Handsome first edition of this address "Delivered on the occasion of the third annual Bromsen Lecture May 3, 1975" -- the third "Maury A. Bromsen Lecture in Humanistic Bibliography." Famed antiquarian bookseller and collector Bromsen (1919-2005), well known for… Read more about this item

Tombstone, AZ: Red Marie's Bookstore, n.y.. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 52pp, (2pp). Numerous illustrations. Fine. Pristine likely first edition of this slim study, boldly signed in full by Traywick on title page in black fineline, where he adds "Tombstone, A.T. 5/24/08." Traywick (born 1927) is a prolific Western historian, having produced an immense number of articles and… Read more about this item

Denver: Fred A. Rosenstock Old West Publishing Company, 1969. Hardcover. Edited by Lyman Tyler. Folio. Quarter tan cloth spine and pictorial paper over boards. (Ca. 100pp). Numerous illustrations and maps. Near fine. Superb and tight first edition, limited to 2,000 copies, of volume one of the Western History Center Publications and volume one of the "Annals of the West"… Read more about this item

[New York]: Time-Life Books, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo. Full brown blind-embossed calf with gilt lettering. 498pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, decorations, marbled endpapers, sewn-in yellow silk page marker. Very good. Very mildest of edgewear. Tight, handsome facsimile of the scarce 1894 Pacific Tree and Vine Co. first edition. Part of this publisher's "Classics of the Old West" series. GRAFF 2670.… Read more about this item

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1994. Hardcover. Edited by Martin Ridge. 16mo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. lxiii, 417pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. "Lakeside Classics" edition of the silent film star and cowboy's 1929 autobiography.

Boulder: The Johnson Publishing Company, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown and tan cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 274pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed, with spine a tad sunned. Tight and handsome first edition of this deckle-edged beauty, a life of the polymath physician and prolific Western historian as written by his third wife,… Read more about this item

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1969. Hardcover. Edited by Dwight L. Smith. 16mo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxxii, 188pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations, map. Fine. Pristine, tight "Lakeside Classics" edition of this young Chicagoan's memoir -- and not a reprint of a rare published classic, as are most volumes in this series, but the true… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine witjh gilt spine lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 511pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/fine. Circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on front inner flyleaf and on last index leaf. Just a book club edition of this blockbuster, but pristine, bright and tight.

Flagstaff: Northland Publishing, 1994. Hardcover. Foreword by Bruce Babbitt. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 650pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/fine. Dated ownership signature on front pastedown. Pristine first edition of this thick centennial history of the central Arizona city.