Search Results: Authors starting with A from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1990. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps. Special New York Book Fair Issue. Several ink marks/note by former owner, & his address label on front cover. Vg.

Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1989. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps. Inside this issue: Restoration as a Factor in the Pricing of Books. A few stain spots on front cover, but still vg.

Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1989. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps. Special Issue on "Fine Arts, Prints & Illustrations" including "The Watercolors and Prints of Orra White Hitchcock." A few pages with straightened out dog-ears; couple of ink marks/notes; one very small page edge tear. Vg.

Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1990. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps.

Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1990. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps. Special Issue: Fine Arts, Prints & Illustration. Vg.

Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1989. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps. Special Issue on the "Music & the Performing Arts. Several pages with straightened out dog-ears; couple of ink marks. Vg.

Clifton: A B Bookman Pub, 1990. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing thus of this issue. 4to pictorial wraps. Special issue on Labor History & Fiction. Stapled binding skewed, but still vg.

Columbus MT: Stillwater Sun, 1989. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing. 4to pictorial wraps. 134pp. Illustrated. Signed by Abarr. A nice Montana cattle item. Vg.

NY: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. 281pp. Illus. Index. Maps. One of the classic range autobiographies of cattle driving and ranching in old time Montana. Info on Charlie Russell, Granville Stuart, Pike Landusky, et. Al. We must grade this copy poor because the spine & adjacent front board are badly faded. On this title a paper title band was bound onto the covers; it is cracked at the spine. It seems disingenuous to say "else near fine," but other than the fading and cracking to the paper band it is near fine. From the library of the University Club of Seattle with Club bookplate on front paste down & small number sticker on spine. Lower spine corner of ffep has bookseller's label, "Harry Hartman Seattle." To be regarded a good reading copy. No dj. Good copies start at $375 on the internet, so interested buyer can determine if this one is a good deal at our price.

NYC: Al Greenstone, 1948. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good+. Presumably the first edition. Pink quarto illustrated wraps in pink with white & blue lettering. Illustrated in b/w with bluish tint. 16pp. fos at top of cover. Dances were staged by George Balanchine. Vg+.

Brockhampton, London, 1993, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Pictorial glossy hardbound. 243pp. Illust. Chronology. Index. Bibliography. "the gruesome history of torture, restraint and punishment from the days of the Normans to the late nineteenth century." The author was Yeoman Warder of HM Tower of London. Fine in dj.

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 260pp. Index. Endpaper maps. Fine in dj.

NYC: Club Women of New York Co, 1933. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st printing thus. Royal 8vo gilt-stamped & decorated burgundy cloth. 292pp. Illustrated with wonderful ads and several portraits, some full page. Frontispiece: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Eleanor), who wrote the facing address to the club women. Photo of "Reception Room" is near the front of the book. On p. 151 is photo of the "Women's City Club" building at 22 Park Ave. There is an extensive index of members giving their addresses and membership information on the many clubs that apparently were affiliated with the CWNY. At the end is a Directory of Advertisers & a photo of Women's University Club on 106 East 52nd St. The front paste down bears the small custom bookplate of Terry Turner. It covers part of the full ad on the past down. Throughout this copy are pencil check marks and "x"'s. The back over has a large color ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes. The lead over the statement attached to the color lithograph of women in… Read More

NY: Broadway Book, 2004. ARC. Soft cover. Fine. Advance Reading Copy. Colorful wraps with the avocado green covers. 328pp. Signed by Acito, with words, "Be Splendid" on title page. Acito stamped some copies with reference to his Wallingford High School English Dept, as he did this one. Fine copy.

Little Brown, Boston, (2003), 2003. ARC. Soft cover. As New. Publishers advance. 4to pictorial, plastic bound wraps. 265pp one side. Publisher's letter bound in. A novel based in Idaho. Fine, as new.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good. 1st printing presumed of 2nd edition published by Houghton Mifflin, their Riverside Library. Cloth with gilt spine titles. 387pp. Illus. Previous owner's signature (fos) in ink on ffep with 1936 date. Vg-. Slight fraying to head of spine; endpapers with browning/oxidation. Dj has tears and browning to backstrip. A solid decent copy with hinges just fine.

Redlands: Jim Sloan, 1968. Hardcover. As New. Not a book. Original black & white portrait of the great American photographer Ansel Adams with original presentation signature by Adams, dated 11-11-68 and taken by Redlands, California, photographer, Jim (James) Sloan, to whom the portrait is inscribed with narrow black felt pen. Image size 7 1/8" x 9 1/16". This photo was professionally applied by the Perma Plaque Company to wooden plaque board & lightly coated with an impervious solution. The Perma Plaque Company has long been famous for preserving valuable objects. Since the taking of the photo (and presumably the placing of it on the board soon thereafter) and during the many years your seller has owned the photo, there is no visible evidence of any discoloration or degradation to the photo. Board size: 9 7/8" x 11 7/8". Gold trim. A unique item & a great Adams collectible. This portrait of Adams appear (without the presentation) on page 64 in Sloan's book, More Faces + Faces, published in 1970. A… Read More

Mesa AZ: Privately Printed, 2004. Revised Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing of Revised Edition. 4to pictorial glossy wraps (glue bound). 169pp. Illus. Map(s). Signed by the author/compiler. A well-illustrated book on an Arizona ranch family. Fine. Scarce.

n.p.: Privately published, 1958. First Edition. Soft cover. Collectible Fine. 1st printing. Printed blue wraps. 32pp. Illus. Signed by Adams. The year of publication is not stated; we are using the year suggested by a reprint edition. Fine. Scarce.

Privately Published, n.p., 1954, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Gilt-stamped cloth. 379pp. Gift inscription on front paste down. Frontispiece portrait of Adams on his horse. "A fictitional (sic) portrayal of the opening, settlement, and development of the Cherokee Strip", but based largely on the author's own experiences & those of people he knew. He was, among other things, newspaper editor in Augusta, Okla, & filed on a homestead near Buffalo, Okla.. Cover corners slightly bumped, else fine in chipped dj.