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

Beverly MA: Quarry Books, 2012. Soft cover. As New. 4th printing. 4to pictorial wraps in wraps dj. 319pp. Wonderfully illustrated mainly in color by the artist. Signed (signature only) by Campanario. Fine, like new. Scarce signed.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. The unnumbered but limited Washington Edition. 15 volumes, each quarto and bound in half leather and marbled boards. Profusely, but appropriately, illustrated with vintage b/w photos, maps, & facsimiles. Each volume contains a lovely color frontispiece. Decorative endpapers. The pagination in each volume varies, but run pps. 327 - pps. 370. The Pageant of America was published 1925 - 1929 in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Gabriel was the general editor & specific editor of some volumes. Various other scholars edited other individual volumes. The reach and depth of the researched material on multiple subjects and fields relating to the history, culture, and growth of the United States is astounding. This set is signed in volume 1 by the President and founder of Yale University Press, George Parmly Day. Let me now describe what is unique about this set being offered. It… Read More

San Francisco: CBAG, 1982. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. As New. Limited to 100 case bound copies, this being copy #14. Gilt-stamped cloth. Unpag. Illus. Reference books listed in the back. 783 items in the following three lots: Book Club of California, The Grabhorn Press, Various Western Presses. Fine, like new. No dj as issued.

n.p.: p.p. & Fairmont Photo Press, 1983. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good+. 1st printing. Pictorial stapled wraps. 37pp. Illustrated with drawings. The author grew up in southern Minnesota & this is a frontier Minnesota item. He has 4 pages devoted to the James Gang & the Northfield robbery. Galpin's great-uncle, Teenus Galpin, joined a detective agency according to this account & worked undercover as a drunk tending James' horses at their hideout. The author also has a page on the Tuttle Carver Fight. Browning to 2 facing leaves from former lay-in; faded across top of front cover, else Vg. Very scarce.

San Francisco: John Howell, 1963. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Ltd to 750 copies. Tall 8vo cloth with gilt stamped spine. 80pp. Maps, including one large folding one. Appendices. "Translated from the Spanish by Adelaide Smithers. Fine in original glassine dj. This copy is unopened, which means that some adjacent leaves are still joined and need to be cut open by the buyer.

John Howell, S.F., 1963, 1963. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Ltd to 750 copies. Royal 8vo cloth. 80pp. Illust. Large folding map, "Location of Presidios for the Frontier Line of New Spain." Fine copy in original glassine dj. Unread, with some pages uncut.

San Antonio: Naylor, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 188pp. Illustrated with drawings by R. L. McCollister. Printed review slip "To the Literary Editor" from Naylor laid in. Also laid in is a folded t.l.s. (typed letter signed) from Gann on his Lakewood, Colorado letterhead to Robert Perkin of the Rocky Mountain News. Perkin has also signed his name at the bottom of the ffep. The letter expresses appreciation for "your kindly treatment" in Perkin's review. "The review was complete and covered all vital elements contained in the book. I would like to meet you, and what do you say to having lunch with Chester Letts and me in the near future..." I have not identified Letts but someone who will really like this copy may. Near fine in dj with 1" x 1" chip at top front cover corner at fore edge. Otherwise moderately worn and with a 2" mark on the back. "In this history, (Gann) has caught the surge and sweep, the drama and romance, the hardship and the heartbreak, of… Read More

Gov't Printing Office & Dept. of the Interior, Wash. DC, 1906, 1906. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Gray printed wraps. 11pp. Fldg map of U.S. Table of areas of States & Territories in square miles. Bulletin 302. Ink notation top front cover + library stamp on same. Vg. Scarce.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Public Affairs, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 186pp. Illust. Index. Fine in dj.

NY: Devin-Arair, 1959. First American Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Very Good/Good. 1st printing of American edition. 256pp. Illus. "This is the true story of the 'fastest man on the draw' in frontier Arizona." Ganzhorn was born on the San Carlos Reservation in 1878, spent early boyhood in Tombstone (he tells his version of the O. K. Corral "Massacre") & "in Tucson, he life soon became a wildly exciting succession of gun battles with cowboys, gamblers, and police." Problem is, most historians take the author's facts with a considerable amount of salt. Fine in moderately worn pc dj with chipping at top/bottom of backstrip. 6-guns 796.

Mexico: Universidad nacional autonoma de Mexico, 1968. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Good. Apparently the first printing of this 1968 UNAM edition in Spanish, the first being in 1854. Pictorial glossy wraps. 103pp. Map. Folding map. Indice. Mildly ex-lib with two ex-libris stamps from the Academy of American Franciscan History. Call number in ink written on top left corner of front cover. Top of spine with slight loss. Upper corner of text block and front cover bumped. Good copy. Scarce.

Wisconsin House, Madison, 1973, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Cloth. 263pp. Illust. Presentation copy signed & dated by Gard. Good history of this famed river flowing through Wisconsin. Fine in dj with short tears & repaired longer tear at edge of front flap. Very scarce signed.

NY, 1948, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Cloth. 194pp. Illust. Signed by Gard. Top corners of cover bumped, else fine in vg, but moderately edgeworn dj. Very scarce.

Norman: OU, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 324pp. Illustrated with drawings by Nic Eggenhofer and with photos and prints. Bibliography. Index. History of the presence and demise of the bison of the Great Plains. Fine in near fine dj with small price clip. This is the actual first edition, stated. Many copies look like the first, but do not have the required statement, so buyer beware.

Dallas: First National Bank in Dallas. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing. Oblong pictorial wraps. 36pp. Illus. Foreword by Chisholm Trail historian Wayne Gard. Published likely in the 1950ss, attractive little booklet giving a little bit of Texas ranch history around their brands. Fine.

n.p.: Better Homes and Gardens, 1967. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4th printing. Pictorial wraps. 22pp. Illus. Near fine.

Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003. Hardcover. As New/As New. Number line starts with 2, so appears to be 2nd printing. Small 4to glossy pictorial hardbound in glossy pictorial dj. Unpaginated. Illus. Zelda the bulldog (whose mug is throughout the book) teaches us how to survive in today's world. Intended to be humorous, and is. Signed & Gardner & "Zelda" with pawprint beside signature (slightly ink offset on facing blank page). Fine, like new in dj. Signed copies uncommon.

Philadelphia: Running Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 1st printing. Hard card stock pictorial covers and pages. Unpag. Signed and dated in year of publication by Gardner & with Zelda's paw print. Fine, like new. Scarce signed.

Knopf, NY, 1977, 1977. Hardcover. Good/As New. No edition stated. Cloth & boards. 58pp. Illust/Michael Sporn. Transfer of ink & superficial paper layer from one illustration to facing page. This is about 1/4" wide & 3 1/2" inches long. Sounds bad but is acceptable if you don't need a perfect copy. Otherwise as new in dj.

Garfield Co. Hist. Soc., Enid, 1982, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto gilt-stamped & embossed, simulated leather hardbound. 1,120pp. Two heavy volumes with many illustrations, mostly family portraits, but also scenes, landscapes, buildings, etc.. There are some nifty and only-published-here photos from the cattle range days & early Cherokee Strip settlement days. Filled primarily with family stories, but also contains general interest stories. Lots of history here, and your bookseller wrote one humble entry on his grandparents for the set. The bottom of the front covers of this set have the original owners names stamped in gold. Not at all unsightly. I'm biased, but this was one of the most attractively designed county history productions done anywhere. Fine condition. Oversized.