Search Results: Titles starting with A from Darwin Labordo Books

Austin, Texas, Texas State Historical Association, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Fine copy in a slipcase. Limited edition. Bound in quarter leather and housed in a linen slipcase, still in original shrinkwrap. Limited to 100 copies. Six Score 56: The author was for many years the manager of the S-M-S ranch, and there is much on that outfit. A portion of the book, however, is devoted to the packing industry and its history, illustrating the often close connection between the large outfits and the packing concerns. Herd 1009. Basic Texas Books 86: this is one of the best books on the Texas cattle industry. Dobie p. 105: Hastings was urbane, which means he had perspective; Old Ganpa is the most pulling cow horse story I know. Dobie/Dykes 5. Graff 1814. Howes H287. Merrills Aristocrats. Greene, Fifty Best Books on Texas.

Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book near fine, dust jacket has chipping to the top edges. First edition (so stated).

Naylor Co., 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth, dust jacket, very good plus. First edition. Guns 1322: "Has a chapter on Tombstone and the OK Corral fight. The author calls the Earps a 'shady clan' and says that the OK battle 'lasted only thirty seconds, saw a total of thirty bullets fired and three of the Clanton-McLowery [sic] group dead in the dust. And though the Earps were victorious, their marksmanship created a wave of public resentment that later caused them to high-tail it for the sanctuary of Colorado.'

Lowell Press, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cloth, dust jacket, near fine copy, inscribed and signed by the author. First edition.

Columbian Book Company, 1872. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Original green cloth, water spot approximately 1 inch in diameter below the vignette on the front cover, boards showing on tips and some edges, hinges strong, text clean and unmarked, overall a very good minus copy. First edition. Zamorano Eighty 61: "A highly interesting book by the first man, probably, who ever walked alone from one coast to the other. The author, an amateur ethnologist, describes vividly the country through which he traveled. Of particular value are his descriptions of southern California. He walked from Raleigh, N.C., to San Francisco, a distance of 3,556 miles. So keen were his observations of the Indian tribes of California that his notes were published some five years later by the U.S. Department of Interior.Afoot and Alone appeared in but one edition, but it became so popular and was so widely read that it is today almost impossible to find a fine copy." Cowan p. 498. Graff 3339. Howes P537 citing… Read More

Northland Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine copy in dust jacket. First edition. Limited to 1,500 copies. Dykes, High Spots of Western Illustrating 156.

Colorado, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Pictorial cloth, a fine copy signed by both authors. First edition. Guns 1471: "These authors are among the first ones to spell Alferd Packer's first name correctly, as Packer himself spelled it.

Random House, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Better than very good copy in dust jacket. First edition. Fictionalized account.

Norman, Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma Press., 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book and dust jacket near fine. First edition.

New York, Barnes and Noble, Press of the Pioneers, 1935. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Two Volumes, complete, cloth, very good plus. Second edition. Howes C390. Graff 696. Saunders 2814. Dobie p. 71: "Basic work." The standard reference on the history of the fur trade.

Lewis Osborne, 1966. Special Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth, a near fine copy. Reprint edition. Includes Dorothy Huggins' Continuation of the Annals of San Francisco. Zamorano 70: "A necessary reference book of San Francisco to the middle fifties, compiled mainly from newspapers and information received from pioneer citizens. William F. White, in his Pioneer Times in California, criticized the Annals for certain statements pertaining to the mission system, and for insults to the pioneers." Cowan p. 601. Graff 3901. Howes S769.

Berkeley, California, Berkeley Hills Books, 1998. Special Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Cloth, a fine copy. Reprint edition. Zamorano 70: "A necessary reference book of San Francisco to the middle fifties, compiled mainly from newspapers and information received from pioneer citizens. William F. White, in his Pioneer Times in California, criticized the Annals for certain statements pertaining to the mission system, and for insults to the pioneers." Cowan p. 601. Graff 3901. Howes S769.

Boston: Little Brown, 1994. F . Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Fine in dj. First edition.

Little Brown, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in dj. First edition.

Arthur H. Clark Company, 1935. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cinnamon cloth, very good+ copy. First edition. Clark & Brunet 25: "There was apparently only one printing, but copies were issued with two different dates on the title page. Most of the blue cloth copies are dated 1934, and cinnamon cloth copies are dated 1935.The reason for the variant dates and bindings has not been determined.

New York, E. P. Dutton, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First edition. Loring Campbell. Arizona Fifty 12: Good, fast reading on cattle and roundups and the running feud between cattle and sheep men on the east central Arizona range in the early years of the present century. Includes some material on the Pleasant Valley War and fine photographs by the author. Guns 488: Contains a chapter on the Pleasant Valley War between the Grahams and the Tewksburys. Herd 573. Dobie p. 100.

Green cloth cover, near fine, rare dust jacket has some chipping, very good. Housed in a custom folding case.
First edition thus. Very rare in the original dust jacket.

Charles Scribner¿s, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth, dust jacket, very good copy. First edition. Walter Campbell p. 136: "Comprehensive and accurate. The authoritative book on this subject.

Norman, Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma Press., 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book and dust jacket near fine. First edition.

Columbia, Ohio, Columbia Press, 1932. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Pictorial red cloth,very good. First edition. Guns 1974: Scarce. It contains material on Billy the Kid.She was not afraid of him (Billy the Kid), she says, because she had met him earlier in Trinidad and had done him a favor for which he had promised never to bother her. She claims to have visited the Kid in jail May 16, 1882, nearly a year after his death, and she records his death as September 8, 1882. She says it was only then that she learned that his true name was William H. Bonney. His death, she says, ends the career of one who began his downward course at the age of twelve years by taking revenge for the insult that had been offered to his mother. The reprint omits some material that appears in the first printing. Dykes, Kid 181: Sister Blandina nursed a member of the Kids gang and saved the lives of Trinidads doctors by getting the grateful Kid to grant her a favor. The favor, of course, was the sparing of the lives… Read More