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

London: Jonathan Cape, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 1st printing UK edition. Cloth. 300pp. Binding very very slightly pushed. Near fine in near fine unclipped dj.

London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later printing of book copyrighted in 1904. 12mo cloth. 66pp. Maps. Preliminary pages say that "The text of this New Testament was in the main first published by the Bible Society of Wurttemberg at Stuttgart in 1898. It was prepared for that Society by Professor Eberhard Nestle..." Some rubbing to front cover, but else very good.

Norman, 1965, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Cloth. 377pp. Illust. Foreword by Angie Debo. Moses, Chief of the Columbia Indians, was a good friend of Chief Joseph & there is much information on the latter. Fine in dj (closed tear on the front panel).

Garden City: Doubleday & Co, Inc, 1965. First Thus. Hardcover. Collectible Fine/Near Fine. 1st printing with new title, "The Hallelujah Trail." Cloth. 192pp. Short presentation on title page to your bookseller by Gulick. Laid in is the original carbon copy sales slip from The Walla Walla Book Shop. The book originally cost $3.95. Originally published as Hallelujah Train. Very scarce signed. Fine in near fine dj, which is not price-clipped. A great movie from a great Western novel of old-time Denver where everybody hankered for a drink!

Pendleton, 1931, 1931. First Thus. Soft cover. Good+. Black wraps. 176pp. Illust. On the lower part of the front cover, under the title, Hamley affixed a large, 3 1/2" x 4", white & red label: "LOWER PRICES On SADDLES, CHAPS", etc. I am uncertain as to the catalog number of this copy. It's either cat 32 or 39. If a two then it's a funny one with the circle, a font I don't recall seeing. If a 9 with a line under it, then why not also a line under the 3. Light stains on last leaf of index. Upper right corner of covers creased. Good+.

Staten Island: Alba House, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good-. Pictorial wraps. 170pp. Bibliography. Index. A scholarly, but easily read reference survey. Three former owners' names crossed out. Price sticker inside front cover. Light rubbing to covers. About vg. Scarce.

R. Hardesty Manufacturing Co, Denver, 1936, 1936. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Bronze stamped/embossed stiff simulated wraps. 573pp. Illust. Tables, charts, etc. Owner's signature. Gilt-stamped name of original owner bottom front cover; T.L.S. (typed letter signed) from company official on company letterhead to original owner in Golden, Colorado, inside envelope affixed to back cover. Vg. Nice association. Uncommon.

Harvard, Cambridge, 1949, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 1st edition. Cloth. 753pp. Comparative Chronology, Notes o Contributors, Index. Very thorough to the time, & scholarly. Owner's private library label on lower spine. Owner's small label on ffep, & name stamp on lower title page. Same name stamp on top/bottom edges. Moisture ring shadow on front cover. Excellent reading - reference copy in moderately worn, slightly chipped dj with small tears.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1986. 1st printing in wrappers. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing of U. S. edition in pictorial wraps. 311pp. Once you wade through all the listening of big box mass market booksellers who don't actually know how to describe their copy, you get down to a few booksellers who know that they're talking about and have the book in hand. This copy "in hand" and vg+.

Lopez Island: Heron Moon Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 1st printing. Pictorial hardbound. 140 pp. Beautifully taken photos of working hands in company with all kinds of tools and items. Signed & dated by the writer, Graville, in year of publication. Fine, like new in dj.

Delacorte Press, 2000. First Edition Later Printing. Hardcover. Collectible As New/As New. 2nd printing. Hardcover. 296pp. Signed & dated by Nichols in year of publication. Fine, like new in dj.

Springfield (IL): Charles C. Thomas, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Gilt-stamped red cloth. 483pp. Indices (Selected Names, Subject). A scholarly book full of examples. Chapters: Hanging as a Social Practice, Excessive Retribution and Puritanical Zeal in Early Days, The Treatment of Witches, Hangings Inside - Far from the Madding Throngs, A Wide Range of Cases, Murder for Greed Anger and Lust, A Further Potpourri of Cases, The Poisoners, Hangings in the Interest of National Security, The Tree Embellished by Ballad and Allusion, The Drift Away from Capital Punishment. Of frontier interest includes the Mankato Sioux hangings of 1862, Hanging Judge Parker, & much, much more. Near fine with slight corner bump to some pages, in dj with bit of fraying at top of backstrip. Scarce & desirable! Not in 6-guns.

NY: Bantam Books, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 1st printing. Cloth & bds. 371pp. Signed (signature only) on ffep by the author. Fine, like new in dj.

Salt Lake City: Univ of Utah, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 1st printing. 226pp. Illus. Signed by both authors after a presentation by one of them, Mather, to Jim Dullenty and dated Oct. 3, 1987. Dullenty was a Western book dealer and was involved in a major Old West history society editing its journal. Mather wrote, "We enjoyed working with you on the book." Dullenty was an authority on Montana outlaws, hence the association. Dust jacket says, "an enormous amount of meticulous work." Fine, as new in dj.

Cove, OR: Reflections Pub Co, 1996. 1st printing in wrappers. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing in wraps. Pictorial wrappers. 219pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Map of Pacific Northwest. Signed to (name) and "best wishes, Jon and Donna." "This is the first biography of (Vaughan), a colorful character of the Old West . . . Hank was born in Oregon Territory and started getting into trouble at an early age. He was sent to the penitentiary at sixteen after a shootout near present day Baker City..." Vg.

Lincoln: Univ of Neb, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/New. Tall 8vo cloth. 224pp. Presentation copy to your bookseller, signed & dated by Johnson in year of publication. Much better than Reality TV! How a young married couple lives in "his family's land in a remote and beautiful corner of Idaho." Fine, as new in dj.

The American Crayon Co., Sandusky, 1943, 1943. First Thus. Hardcover. Good+/Good. Quarto pictorial boards. Unpag. Fine illustrations, including the cover & the dj, by Fern Peat. Some regluing to paper on spine. Good+ in edge-chipped, but scarce & fragile dj.

Laird & Lee, Chicago, 1915, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Published the same year as the Portland edition, which Adams and Howes considered the prior edition. Cloth. 242pp. Illust. Inscribed on ffep from someone at the Goodwill Hotel in Tacoma to "those brave, heroic men who are going forth to blot out the 'Beast of Berlin.'" The author recalls Indian Territory, Ft. Dodge, Ft. Laramie, the Sioux, "Unwritten history of the Custer massacre," Montana, Custer City, Deadwood, Portland, & much more. Adams cites many errors, but it's salty reading. Vg. 6-guns 2466, Howes Y27.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 331pp. Illus. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Review copy with publisher's printed card laid in. Fine in near fine dj (small crease on front flap). Scarce in fine 1st edition.

(Creston BC): Privately published. First Edition. Soft cover. Good. 1st printing. 4to pictorial cream wraps bound with a black fabric spine. Unpaginated 31 chapters. Signed by Sadler. The author's memoir of coming to and living in the boundary town of Creston, British Columbia, in 1937. Chapter samples: "Harvest on the Prairie," "I Lose My Wife," "The Depression Takes Hold," "Medicine Hat." Moderately soiled. Short split to the binding fabric at lower spine. Good+ copy.