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

San Diego: Ash Ranch, 1990. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Gilt-stamped miniature hardbound (2 3/8" x 1 13/16"). 41pp. Frontispiece photo of Dobie by Evans. Marbled endpapers. Ltd to 100 copies, this being #39, signed by Poska. A modern rarity. Fine, like new. (1990).

Norman: OU, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 218pp. Illus. Index. fos/city/year in ink top of ffep. Fine in dj with top of backstrip wrinkled.

Grand Rapids: Wolf House Books, 1983. First Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st printing in pictorial trade wraps. 64pp. Frontispiece. In back pocket is London's poem, "The Worker and the Tramp," in miniature facsimile, fine in red wraps.

London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Good. 1st printing this edition. Cloth. 368pp. Bibliography. Index. There is a depression on one spot of the front cover where something blunt fell on the book. Still a good+ copy in good dj with depression at same place.

Austin: Gammel's Book Store, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 200pp. Illus. Ex-lib. Pocket on rear fly; label glued to lower spine; stamps. In condition a sound & in fact bright copy. Vg thus.

Gammel's Book Store, Austin, 1927, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth. 200pp. Illustrated with drawings. A 1962 ink gift inscription is written on the ffep. The author's close & violent encounters in timber country with guns & ax handles actually took place in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, & Arkansas. "In the summer of 1885, when I was a little more than sixteen years old, I ran away from home." Wilson says he was City Marshal of Allenscreek, Tennessee later in his career. Very scarce. Fine in even scarcer dj - the latter slightly soiled & with a couple of small chips. Rader 3686.

Austin: Southwest Review, 1957. First Thus. Soft cover. Fine. Special offprint, 1st printing thus. Printed red wraps. 23pp. A Dobie Christmas keepsake. Fine. McV D63.

Gonzales TX: Privately printed, 2009. Limited Edition. Soft cover. As New. Limited to unnumbered printing of 250 copies. Printed, stapled wraps. 64pp. Illus. Map. Appendices.

Liberty MO: Privately Printed, 1995. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printings. Stapled 4to printed wraps. Various paginations, many 4pps, but some up to 12pp ea. Illus. 46 issues, 1995 - 2008 incomplete. Added to these are 7 other publications (membership lists, bibliography, etc.) published by the journal. A couple of issues have chips & wear. Else vg. Hard to come by.

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Travelers' Tales Inc, 1999. First Thus. Soft cover. As New. Trade pictorial wraps. 411pp. Glossary. Index. Index of Contributors. Extensive Acknowledgments. Signed & dated by Carlson in 2000. Fine, like new. Signed copies scarce.

Portland: Oregon Hist Soc, 1994. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 157pp+. Illus. Several essays. "Special Issue", Winter 1993-94. Fine.

Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2008. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine Collectable. 1st printing. Silver-stamped 4to cloth with color photo by Wall embedded. 57pp. Illustrated with Wall's Vancouver photos in color and b/w. Signed by Wall. Near fine noting shallow abrasion to upper corner of ffep. No dj as issued.

Jefferson Foundation, 2000, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. Pictorial wraps. 80pp.. Illust. Foreword by Robert Utley. Notes. Nice item exploring the "chasm separating the West that Jefferson pictured from his Virginia mountaintop from the West that Lewis and Clark confronted in their transcontinental trek." Fine.

Eakin, Austin, 1992, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Cloth. 246pp. Illustrated with sketches & photos. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. Three fine maps of the Chisholm, Western, & Goodnight-Loving Trails drawn by the incomparable Jose Cisneros. Laid in loose is publisher's plate inscribed by Cushman. Encouraged by J. Frank Dobie, et. al, this book is "... a lifetime work on the neglected story of this unusual frontiersman" . Fine, as new in dj. Now a tad scarce.

NY: Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 313pp. Illus. Sources. Index. Somewhat of a classic in the James Gang field. Some erasure abrasion on ffep & also a short "v" tear on same; Christmas sticker on lower rear paste down. Thus, vg in vg dj.

NY: Duell, Sloan Pearce, 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Fair. 2nd printing. Cloth. 313pp. Index. Pencil fos/gift on ffep. Laid into this copy is a short, but wonderful T.L.S. (typed letter signed) by Croy on a small-sized printed letterhead, the Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth (England). It has his corrections in ink, but reads: "April 23rd - Friend: I'm going to pull down, just as Jesse would have done, on the person who said the book was unobtainable. I'm telling the publishers to write you. I've (sic) extremely thankful the book has done so well. I was afraid a book about an outlaw would not go, but it has. Yours till General MacArthur Loves Truman. H. C." Also laid in is a small news clipping of the death of 109 year old James Russell Davis, who testified that as a member of the James gang he could identify J. Frank Dalton as Jesse James. Croy grew up close by the James family. "It seems to me I have always known the James Story." He interviewed many interesting people for this book. Fine copy in dj… Read More

Northfield: Mohn Printing Co, 1939. Reprint. Soft cover. Good. Printed wraps. Reprinted from the 1895 Edition of Robber And Hero. 38pp. Illus. Worn at extremities; abrasion & square paper price patch on lower front corner & some stain on back. Sound stapled volume. Good. Very scarce. cf 6-guns 1087, 150 #78.l.

Portland: The Oregon Jesuit, 1960. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good+. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 120pp. Illus. Inside back cover is Chronological List of Jesuits in Montana. Slight crease front cover, else near fine.

Santa Rosa: Polebridge Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. q. 1st printing. Glossy blue wraps. 194pp. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Printed folded discussion sheet stapled to back leaf. Gentle ex-lib with label on spine, checkout envelope & slip. Rather scarce.

n.p.: Pillsbury's Best Flour, 1960. Soft cover. Near Fine. No printing stated. Pictorial wraps. 24 numbered pages. Illus. Near fine.