Search Results: Titles starting with C from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Great Falls: C. M. Russell Museum, 1978. Soft cover. Fine. Printing unstated. Oblong pictorial wraps. (24pp). Illus. Forward by Steele. Text by various contributors, some of which are only quoted. Fine.

Great Falls: Great Falls Chamber of Commerce, 1964. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing. 4to pictorial glossy wraps. (16pp). Illustrated in color & b/w. A nice centennial commemorative of Russell. Fine. Scarce.

Helena: Montana Hist Soc, 1979. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st printing. Oblong 4to glossy pictorial wraps. 28pp. Illustrated in color & b/w. Commentary by Vivian Paladin. Slightest rubbing; near fine.

NY: Kennedy Gallieries, 1962. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing. Bronze colored pictorial wraps with photo of Russell's sculpture of Will Rogers on the cover. Unpag. (40pp). Illus. Mild crease lower right front cover corner. Vg.

Bozeman: Treasure Products, 1972. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing. Oversized pictorial glossy wraps. 29pp. Illustrated with Russell's pages from Russell's boyhood sketchbook. Gosh, the talen shows through at an early age! Fine.

Great Falls: C. M. Russell Gallery, 1955. First Edition. Soft cover. Good+. Glossy 4to pictorial wraps. (12pp). Illus. Intro by Dan Cushman. Crease lower corner front cover. Good+.

Bonanza, NY, 1983, 1983. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fair. Reprint, 1st thus. Oblong cloth. 152pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Appendix. Index. Fine in pc dj with rather long (2" and 3"), but long closed tear on front panel & also back panel. Nice reading copy.

Texas Student Pub. Inc., Univ of Texas, Austin, 1940, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-. 4to textured & pictorial fabrikoid with gilt lettering. 528pp. Illust. Yearbook of the Univ. of Texas, so-called "Texas Literature Number". A number of sections of the yearbook were introduced with brief segments from famous Texas historians of the Old West & the Texas Republic, etc.. Dobie wrote a column of information on each historian. Condition: good. A number of the glossy pages in the rear part of this heavy volume were stuck together at the top corner near the binding. Impossible to separate cleanly, some pages have some abrasion or thinness in that restricted area. Last leaf has a torn chip at that corner 1 1/2" x 1 1/2". There is no loss of text. Priced accordingly. A surprisingly rare Dobie item. Not in McVicker.

New York: Viking, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Cloth. 450pp. Illust. Four appendices. Illustration Credits. Index. Endpaper maps. A continuation of the popular history of the HBC. Very slightly bumped cover corner, else fine in dj.

New York: Cafe' Chauveron, 1950. Soft cover. Good. Original menu of the famous restaurant. One sheet, folded, printing in blue and red lettering. Inserted is a blue and red "Miniature Sample Menu." We judge this to be from the 1950s, but are not for sure. Map of France on back. Browning to edges. This restaurant existed, according to our research, 1957-71. Good.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011. First Edition. Soft cover. Collectible Good. 1st printing. Pictorial trade wraps. 211pp. Signed (signed only) by Laufer on dedication page. Small but noticeable when opened compression bump to text block top front corner. Essays by the author featuring various residents of this border town east of San Diego. Scarce signed.

Sacramento: California Lewis and Clark Exposition Commission & W. W. Shannon (Supt. State Printing), 1905. First Edition. Soft cover. Good. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 215pp. Illus. The wonderful cover illustration which employs a light yellow background is a presentation of the oil painting, "California," by Raschin. Paper covers at top/bottom of spine chipped, re-glued, else a good+ copy. Old price in ink on ffep. Owner's signature (Myra Ballou) in pencil on front cover dated Aug. 19, 1905. This 1st edition is very, very scarce. No copies offered on the internet; no copies in auction records.

n.p.: Ward Ritchie, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 184pp. Illus. Index. Foreword by Edwards. 1851 diary of Townsend, who boarded a steamship & traveled to California & the Pacific Northwest. Townsend would later become the Union Army's Adjutant General. Fine in fine original custom slipcase.

Caldwell: Caxton, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Gilt-stamped cloth. 396pp. Illustrated with photos & portraits. Author's Preface, two Introductions (Franklin Hall & Col. Wm. Bowen), Bibliography, Appendix (Custer Battlefield Nat'l Cemetery & Casualty Lost of the Battle of the Little Big Horn), Appendix Reference Notes, Source Material for Appendix. Also, "Custer's Last Fight" by Col. Bowen. Tipped in following the title/copyright leaf is a nearly full page informative presentation written in ink from Forrest to bookseller/collector Jerome Peltier, dated in 1956. Laid in is a brief 1956 TLS on Forrest's Observer Pub Co (Washington, Pennsylvania) letterhead & with printed mailing envelope from Forrest to same recipient re autographs. "Of all the Indian fighters, army scouts, and frontiersmen produced by the old West of three-quarters of a century ago, none were better known in their day than Moses E. Milner, famous from the Missouri to the Pacific as "California Joe." The number… Read More

Corona del Mar, 1975, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Royal 8vo cloth. 95pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Fine in dj with a couple of tears.

Omaha: Union Pacific, 1925. First Thus. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing thus. Attractive pictorial stiff reddish-brown wraps with gilt title & embossed Union Pacific emblem. Illustration on the cover is of Yosemite (gilt sky & waterfall) & is decoratively double-framed. 48pp. Illustrated in lovely color as well as b/w. Colored (mainly monotone) maps. Really quite a lovely promotional booklet, 6 3/4" x 10". Scarce.

Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1972. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. Fine. 1st printing of facsimile reprint printed in the Netherlands. First published in 1877. Blind-stamped cloth with gilt spine titles. 286pp. Illus. Introduction by famous bookseller Madeleine Stern. From the publisher's series, "Women on the Move: books on the American West and Midwest by Women who Traveled and Settled there between 1835 and 1877." Fine.

NY, 1996, 1996. ARC. Soft cover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Pict wraps. 416pp. Fine.

Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1972. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. Fine. 1st printing of nice facsimile edition. Blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt titles on spine. 508pp. Two fold-out illustrations. Lengthy introduction by famous book dealer Madeleine Stern. First published in New York in 1856. From the publisher's series, "Women on the Move: books on the American West and Midwest by Women who Traveled and Settled there between 1835 and 1877." Fine. Printed in the Netherlands.

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1947. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good. Gilt-stamped cloth. 592pp. Illus. Index. Maps. Gift inscription on ffep. Spine moderately faded. Good. No dj.