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Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1952 First edition. 223pp. Photographic illustrations. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. Sienna cloth with silver lettering to front and spine. A fine copy in worn and spine-darkened dust jacket. Stories of the last of the old cow hands..

Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1995 First edition, first printing. This is the true first edition. The Clark Company issued a second printing (1050 copies) in 1996, so stated. This first printing is becoming rather scarce. One of 1011 copies. 302pp. Illustrations, maps, portraits. Red cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with spine-faded pictorial dust jacket. . "Klingensmith, the first participant in the infamous event to break silence, was the author's great grandfather. It is a detailed account of the massacre and its effect on those who survived" (Clark). [Clark and Brunet II: 11]..

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1972 Introduction by Christopher Morley. Brown leatherette, lettered in gilt. A very fine copy in slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in..

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934 One of 550 copies. 78pp. Printed in red and black. Illustrations by Arvilla Parker. White cloth-backed blue boards, paper spine label. A very fine copy. The first of the Third Series of Rare Americana. A comedy in four acts, reprinted from the rare edition of 1856. Includes a sketch of the Early San Francisco Stage by Jane Bissell Grabhorn. [Grabhorn: 212].. Illus. by Parker, Arvilla.

Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1997 15 volumes, complete. First edition. Published between 1997-2013. Approx. 400 - 500 pages per volume. Light blue cloth stamped in silver. A very fine set, as new. This award-winning series began in 1997 and is here offered complete (scarce thus, especially in this condition). Limitation varies but most volumes are one of 1200 to 1300 copies. The series explores the story of the Latter-day Saints and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. Subject include polygamy, the Utah War of 1857, Mountain Meadows, Indian/Mormon relations, European visitors to Deseret, and more. Primary source documents, many of them never before published, comprise the series' core, continuing the publisher's over 100-year tradition of issuing vital source works in American history. The Mormons' frontier experience, their religious vision and political ambitions are revealed in the words of the pioneers, edited and illuminated by noted historians… Read More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002 First edition. Presentation inscription, signed by the author, dated year of publication. Small quarto (10x7 inches). xxiv, 493pp. Frontis portrait, illustrations, maps; extensive notes, bibliography and index. Half tan cloth over beige boards, lettered in red on spine and front cover. A very fine, crisp copy, as new. At Mountain Meadows on Sept. 11, 1857, local settlers and Paiute warriors waylaid the Fancher party, a wagon train bound from Arkansas to California. Pinned down in a circle of wagons in a remote corner of southwestern Utah the 70 men and women and 70 children fought for their lives for five days. Then under a promise of safe conduct they surrendered to the Mormon militia and their Indian allies. As they were escorted away from their wagons all were murdered except seventeen children under the age of seven. The author relies on unpublished journals, letters, and documents from Mormon archives as well as from accounts by Mormons who opposed… Read More

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992 First edition. Presentation inscription, signed by the Editor and dated year of publication. xxxi, [1], 309pp. 3 maps, 13 reproductions of period photographs. Notes, appendices, sources, index. Tan cloth lettered on spine in copper. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket. Bagley provides Blackburn's complete memoir. "Blackburn was a teamster for Brigham Young, marched with the Mormon Battalion to Santa Fe, crossed the Great Basin seven times in four years, and prospected for gold in California. Blackburn knew Joseph Smith, Jim Bridger, John Sutter, Sam Brannan and a host of lesser-known but equally colorful characters." .

Flagstaff: KC Publications, 1964 Large quarto. Softcover. 32pp. Profusely illustrated throughout in both black and white and color. Pictorial wrappers. Bottom edge of first few pages lightly crunched, else a fine copy. A basic introduction and guide to various types of Southwestern Indian crafts and ar including silverwork, Zuni Fetishes, Hopi Katchina dolls and more. .

Wiltshire, England and Norwalk, Connecticut: Hamilton Manor Press, 1979 4th Edition. Thick octavo. Red cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover. A fine copy in lightly worn pictorial dust jacket. Over 4000 auction records have been compiled from sales held in the Bristish Isles, the USA and Canada in the auction season prior to publication. Each record gives the following information (when available): Assay town, Reatiler, Silversmith, Weight, Full description of plate, Price in British Pounds and US Dollars, Auctioneer's name, Place and date of sale. .

San Francisco: California Division of Mines and Geology, 1966 Bulletin 190. 4to. 508pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps; large folding map in rear pocket. Tan pictorial cloth stamped in black. Spine lightly spotted with title penciled thereon, lower corners slightly jammed, name to free endpaper, else a fine copy. Probably the most extensive coverage of the subject. Klamath Mountains Province; Cascade Range, Modoc Plateau, and Great Basin Provinces, Sierra Nevada Province; Great Valley Province; Coast Ranges Province; Offshore Area; the San Andreas Fault; Subcrustal Structure, etc. Also includes numerous field trip guides..

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988 First edition. Introduction by the editor. xvii, [1], 181pp. Numerous portraits and photographs, 2 maps. Notes, bibliography, index. Red cloth. A very fine copy with lightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket. The autobiography of George Washington Grayson, a mixed-blood Creek Indian. During the Civil War he fought for the Confederacy, and his postwar years were spent with the Creek tribal government..

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1962 First edition. One of 1,000 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Foreword by Susanna Bryant Dakin. 67pp. 44 photographic plates on 24 pages, 2 maps, numerous detailed text illustrations. Light blue pictorial cloth stamped in white, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover. A very fine copy. A description of the changing architectural styles in San Francisco from the Mission period to the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 with particular emphasis on the fascinating parade of ornamental and structural changes of the later 19th century. Also included is a section with details on "30 Characteristic San Francisco Buildings" still standing, keyed to a map; a glossary of architectural terms; sources of the illustrations; a detailed description of each of the 44 plates; a selective bibliography, and an index..

Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1972 First book edition, first published in Century Magazine, July, 1891. One of 600 copies. Introduction by W.H. Hutchinson. 72pp. Illustrations. Gilt-lettered and decorated red cloth. A very fine copy. Includes a frontis portrait of General Miles and 17 illustrations by Frederic Remington..

Georgetown, California: Talisman Literary Research, Inc., 1971 First edition. One of 500 copies. Quite scarce. xvi, 521pp. Facsimiles, locale index, subject index. Black cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with printed dust jacket (top edge of jacket slightly rough). The first comprehensive, annotated bibliography of California fiction. Includes novels, novellas, and short stories that have a California setting, not necessarily by California writers. Includes some 2,500 entries, covering all phases of the California experience. Most entries are annotated and describe the plot or theme of the novel, and the place or setting. The bibliography lists works by obscure writers, obscurely published, as well as the serious fiction of Frank Norris, Gertrude Atherton, Jack London, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, Dashiell Hammett, James C. Cain, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Millar, Jessamyn West, and many others. The standard bibliography on the subject..

Boulder, Colorado: Published by Fred Pruett, 1990 First edition. Scarce thus. Quarto. 96pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs, maps. Orange pictorial laminated boards. A very fine copy. "...the Jawbone also known as The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Puget Sound and The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad and finally as The Milwaukee Road.".

Seacaucus, New Jersey: Castle Books, 1981 Later printing, first published in 1976. Quarto. xii, 240pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs by Joan Larson Kelly, with a section of color photos. Bibliography and index. Light blue boards. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Well-illustrated history of the steam era combined with an account of what memorabilia exists. Over 200 photographs and 32 color illustrations. Everything from antique toy trains, candy containers, snuff bottles, paperweights, railroad guides and brochures, timetables, postcards, tickets, dining car menus, glassware, book matches, uniforms, watch fobs, insulators, switch locks, and on, and on, and on..

Los Angeles: John B. Goodman, III and Gordon J. Holmquist, 1959 First book edition. Introduction by John B. Goodman, III. [10], 51pp. Folding map. Blue boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. Printed at the Cole-Holmquist Press. First published in the "San Jose Pioneer "of 1895. Number 163 of 300 copies. The author served as the secretary and accountant of the unfortunate land & sea expedition from New York to San Francisco through Texas and Mexico, organized by Parker French. Originally intended as a "pleasure trip" of 60 days, it stretched out to over 200 days. "The expedition left on May 13, 1850, and... arrived in Mexico tired and destitute. In Mazatlan, Baldridge obtained work on a steamship, and he made it to San Francisco with several others of the expedition on January 2, 1851" (Kurutz). This is one of the few works dealing with French and his expedition. [Kurutz: 30; Mintz: 516]..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901 2 volumes. First edition. Pp. xi, [1], 256 + 275. Two frontispiece portraits, small folding map. Appendices, index. Red cloth, top edges gilt. Spines slightly faded. Bookplate on inner covers with minor offsetting to adjacent endpaper. Minor foxing to front endpapers and first few pages in each volume. Volume one's front and rear inner hinges cracked, else a very good set. Includes portraits of Stevenson and his wife at a young age. Appendices include a chronological listing of Stevenson's writings. The author was Stevenson's cousin and official biographer. He lived at Vailima with the Stevenson family during the last two and a half years of RLS's life..

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965 Octavo. SIGNED by the author. 346pp. Red cloth with blue and gold lettering on spine. Spine slightly cocked, spine ends rubbed, corners rubbed. A good copy. No dust jacket. .

New York: Heritage Press Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage, introduction by Francois Mauriac, color illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. Spine slightly faded, else a fine copy in slipcase. . Illus. by Sussan, Rene Ben.