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

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 2008. ARC. Soft cover. Fine. Advance Unedited Manuscript. Trade pictorial wraps. 352pp. Signed by Parker. A New York Times bestselling author. Fine condition.

San Marino: Huntington Library, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 235pp. Illus. Index. Map. Rose was one of a galaxy of builders of early southern California." Fine in slightly chipped dj with a little darkening to backstrip.

College Station: Friends of the Sterling C. Evans Library, 1992. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing. Small 4to pictorial wraps. 8pp. Illus. Friends of the Library Keepsake # 21. Fine.

Clarke, Irwin & Co., Toronto, & Weybright & Talley, NY, 1968, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 1st edition. Cloth & boards. 282pp. Bibliographical Notes. Index. The first Canadian edition, scarce thus. Fine in pc dj.

NY: St. Martins, 2019. ARC. Soft cover. As New. Advance Readers' Edition. Trade pictorial wraps. 366pp. Bibliography. Maps. Publisher's promo sheet laid in. Fine, like new.

New York: Crowell, NY, 1950, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Cloth. 239pp. Illustrated with drawings by Kurt Werth. Warmly inscribed twice by Simpson to good friends, once in 1950 & again in 1991. The author uses vivid & colorful remembered dialogue about her father, Ted Robinson, who was an independent oil wildcatter working deals in Texas, Louisiana, & Oklahoma. A great read! Top of spine cut 1/2"; covers lightly soiled. Good. Very scarce & desirable.

NY: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1995. 1st printing in wrappers. Soft cover. Good+. 1st printing of pictorial paperback edition. 287pp. Signed (signed only) by Robb on the title page. Light wear. Good +. Scarce signed in the paperback.

Harper & Bros, NY, 1911, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Gilt-stamped red cloth. 255pp. Blank decorated bookplate on ffep, & fos. This play eventually ran in New York & one critic said it contained "Some Clever Writing and Amusing Types." Light soiling & a bit of spotting. Bumped cover corners. Good condition. Scarce.

Wren's Park, 1999, 1999. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Fine reprint, 1st thus. Royal 8vo glossy pictorial hardbound. 214pp. Beautifully illustrated. Index. Notes. Further Reading. Owner's typed private library call number lower spine; owner's name sticker on front paste down. Else fine in dj.

Saanichton & Seattle: Hancock House Pub Ltd, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 182pp. Illus. Signed by Roger along with a general, "best wishes." The author was born on the Cruikshank Ranch in Alberta. Her life after marriage continued on the "huge Chilco Ranch in the Chilcotin region of British Columbia..." Fine in complete but moderately worn dj. Scarce signed.

Harlow, OKC, 1925, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Decorated cloth (coat-of-arms in color). 61pp. Illustrated with photos; letters in facsimile. Finely printed, decorated bookseller's label of the Plantation Book Shop, Natchez, Miss., on the front paste down. Some of the original letters of the famous French officer & "his son & other members of the family" were found "in an Oklahoma farm house", the property of a relative of Capt. Francis Allyn, "commander of the ship Cadmus in which Lafayette & his son came to the United Stated in 1824", at which time the Congress & Pres. Monroe placed great honors on him. Front hinge broken after frontispiece. Title-page foxed. Paper of rear paste down has wrinkles. Good. Very scarce. Rader 1031.

n.p.: Altitude, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 1st printing. Decorated 4to cloth. 128pp. Illustrated with vintage photos and prints in sepia, color, and b/w. Many of them are the exquisite photos of Carole Harmon's grandfather, the great Banff photographer, Byron Harmon. Most of the color photos are fine reproductions of original hand-tinted photos. Simply put, a beautiful book of the finest mountain photography in the world. And, oh, yes, a history of one of the world scenic destinations, Lake Louise. Fine in vg dj.

Lincoln: U of Nebraska, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 362pp. Maps. Tables. Charts. Index. Laid in is publisher's review card with written pub date & list price. The other authors are Eleanor M. Birch, Philip A. Henderson, & A. H. Anderson. Deals mainly with Kansas to North Dakota, & between & beyond the 98th & 100th meridians, with a focus of part of the book on central Nebraska. Subjects: 19th Century land policies, settlement, crops, etc. Fine in slightly worn dj.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. Hardcover. Collectible Fine/Near Fine. 2nd printing. Cloth. 234pp. Six-line presentation to O. A. W____ and dated in Walla Walla in 1959. Novel about a mountain man adopted by the Nez Perce. Fine in near fine dj. Scarce signed & in hardcover.

OU, Norman, 1942, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth. 245pp. Illust. Bibliography. Index. Endpaper maps. Excellent, scholarly study of the first land-seekers, & their leader, David L. Payne, to what would become Oklahoma Territory. Material, of course, on W. L. Couch & the other men who worked with or followed Payne. Fine in moderately worn dj with a tiny chip & a couple of closed tears. Scarce in this nice condition. Herd 1906.

Victoria (B.C.): Beautiful British Columbia Magazine, 1974. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good+. 1st printing, full issue of the Fall, 1974 issue of Beautiful British Columbia Magazine. The nine-page article which is titled in this listing is primarily composed of terrific color photographs. The text is somewhat brief, but adequate. This is a "must have" item for serious collectors of books and articles on the subject. In this article, Green writes not so much about the creature, Bigfoot/Sasquatch (this is four years before his publication of his classic book, Sasquatch - the Apes Among Us and just a few years after his three earlier, smaller books), but about this lovely, mountainous, lake and river decorated section of southwestern B. C. which is one of the handful of truly classic geographic areas out of which have come historic Sasquatch reports. There are 19 paragraphs of text and 9 photographs, including a seldom seen photo of young John Green showing a cast to a young couple, and a photo… Read More

SLC: Publishers Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good/Good. 3rd printing. Cloth. 207pp. Illus. Index. Endpaper maps of central Idaho. "The Story of the great mining camps of Custer and Bonanza city, Idaho, and the people who made them wonderful, fascinating ghosts." Good reading copy in dj; minor crease top/bottom of front cover; tide-line dampstain top of front dj panel.

Kirkland WA: Know Wonder Publishing, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Collectible As New/As New. 1st printing. Oblong 4to pictorial hardbound. Unpag. Signed to no one in particular, "Sweet Dreams! / signed / 9-17-08" (year of publication. Wonderfully illustrated by Bryn Barnard. Fine, like new in dj.

NY, 1981, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth. 364pp. Illust. Vg in pc dj.

Surrey Centennial Committee, Cloverdale, 1958, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Cloth. 159pp. Illust. A history of British Columbia outside the halls of academia, with an added focus on Surrey, B.C.. Endpaper maps of the Fraser River delta. Fine in chipped dj (1" x 1" chip upper right panel). Smith 1890.