Search Results: Titles starting with I from Darwin Labordo Books

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Some chipping to top edge of jacket, book very good plus. First edition.

First edition. Book and dust jacket very good, with price of 295/295 intact. Younger and Hirsch pp. 102-104. Ads on the back panel of dust jacket with the correct list of books.

Tucson, University of Arizona, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book and dust jacket are very good or better. First edition. A modern classic and considered a primary source on the history of Wyatt Earp. Hollywood draws upon it relentlessly for movie plot and mini-series intrigue. Reprinted several times but the first is very elusive these days.

University of Oklahoma, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cloth, near fine copy in dust jacket. First edition. Reprints abound but the first edition is hard to find.

Viking Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A near fine copy in dust jacket. First edition, suppressed state. An account of the 1975 fatal shootout between FBI agents and American Indians on a property near Wounded Knee. An Indian and two federal agents lost their lives in that incident. This book was recalled and subsequently released with censored information. An intriguing look at why the federal government targeted the American Indian Movement. The author theorizes that Leonard Peltier, the only Indian convicted, could be innocent and deserves a new trial. Material for this book had to be obtained from authorities by invoking the Freedom of Information Act. Destined to be a classic.

Sheridan House, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Dust jacket tape repaired, book very good. First edition. Walter Campbell p. 80: "This author, curator of the Department of anthropology in the American Museum of Natural History, was a great authority on the American Indian. Here without any sacrifice of accuracy, he has departed from his scientific classifications and frankly tells what he saw and experienced on Indian reservations in the last years of the last century. It is our most perfect account of Indian agency life, written by one who had no axe to grind, was an accurate observer, and wrote very readable prose. The standard book on this subject, illustrated with photographs and Indian drawings. An admirable memoir.

Book very good, dust jacket with price intact, also very good. Map in a rear pocket. First edition. The Hoosier State guide portrays Indiana in terms of its people and their background, its points of interest, natural setting and resources, and its social and economic development. There is a great deal of interesting recent history in the volume. In addition to the usual photographs of rivers and forests and historic buildings, there a number of pictures of hard-working Hoosiers.

Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1940. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Cloth, very good. First edition (so stated).

Carl Hertzog, 1958. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Decorated cloth, a very good plus copy. Reprint edition. Six Score 78: ¿The book was reissued in 1958 by Carl Hertzog in an edition of 1500 copies, with drawings by E. M. Schiwetz. This edition is now in as great demand as the first.¿ Greene, Fifty Best Books on Texas p. 21: ¿I have chosen the Hertzog edition - the first was in 1936 - because it is , to me, the most beautiful specimen of his work: design, type, choice of artists, even a specially designed fabric for binding with ¿M/R¿ interwoven.¿ Basic Texas Books 139: ¿In 1958 Carl Hertzog reissued the book in a beautiful limited edition; J. Frank Dobie called it ¿another instance of the last edition being more desirable than the first¿.¿ Lowman 105. Holman, Hertzog Dozen: ¿Using Curtis¿ Stoneridge Natural Laid text, one of the finest of domestic papers, he once again captured the historical flavor of the… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. F . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth, vg. First edition. The author's first novel.

Northland Press, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book near fine, dust jacket with some scuffing to the spine area, very good. First edition. Adams One-Fifty 30. Guns 445: ¿This book was written by Clum as a tribute to his close friend Wyatt Earp. The original publication in the Arizona Historical Review has been very scarce, and this beautiful little book is indeed a welcome addition to the history of Tombstone. It is fully annotated on the margins by John Gilchriese, the acknowledged authority on the Earps.¿

New York, Devin-Adair, 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. very good copy in very good dust jacket. First American edition. Guns 796: A little-known book which gives an account of the Earp-Clanton feud and the OK Corral fight. The author was reared in Tombstone and has a low opinion of the Earps. He says that when he was a boy taking a stagecoach trip with his stepmother, Doc Holliday started to hold up the stage and then recognized his stepmother and rode off with his followers.