Western Americana

New York: G.P. Putnam's 1909, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 409pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Top edge gilt, frontispiece, illustrations, folding maps, index. Locale: British Columbia; Columbia River; Oregon; Washington. Series: American Waterways. (Western America, Rivers).

New York: Antiquarian Press 1961, an unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 750. (Hardcover) 405pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Burgundy cloth with gilt decoration. Frontispiece, photographs, tables, index. (Western America, Autobiography, Cowboys, Ranch Life).

Westernlore Press, LA, 1967. HBDJ, 1967, 1st edition, minor rub DJ & small mended tear, VG/VG, Light X-Library Stamp top Edge outer pgs, but no other Markings, blank endpapers light residue. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Santa Fe: New Mexican, 1928. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. First Edition, Published July, 1928 stated; 8vo, brown cloth; vg (front board lightly soiled; spine ends bumped; top edge dustsoiled; weak hinges, which I believe is a binding flaw; toned eps) in vg- dj (price-clipped; edges and spine darkened; edges worn, torn, and chipped at spine ends and corners); 219pp.

Baltimore: Lord Baltimore, 1900. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Edition, same date; 8vo, brown cloth, no dj; good (cocked; covers soiled, esp. the spine; edges toned; red mark to side edge; cracked at first blank page; cracked at pp32, 64-5, 113, 128-9, 144-5, 160-1, 192-3, 224-5; rear hinge starting; plate at pp70-1 detached, now laid in; pages toning). 262p. + 28 plates (photos and architectural sketches).

New York: Scott Stamp & Coin Co. Ltd, 1936. Octavo. Vol. 17, No 1-10 (March-December) which includes the three part series titled The Pony Express of 1860-61 by Edward S. Knapp in which he explains the history behind the Pony Express cover and not the history behind the Pony Express itself. Illustrated throughout with covers and stamps used in various countries, what to look for in identification, bound in yellow cloth, unlettered spine scarce.

Clarendon, TX: Clarendon Press, 1970. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 174p. bibliography. index. Adams 150 #131 "This is a story of one of Texas' peace officers and his adventuresome life, revealing some history hitherto untold. The author tells of some new adventures of Bass Outlaw not seen before and a mention of Jim Courtright; John Selman and many of the noted Texas Rangers.

Monrovia, CA: Press of the Monrovia News. Near Fine. 1915. First Edition. Soft Cover. Clean tan soft pictorial cover with a closing flap for mailing. Ca: 1915. Illustrated with sepia photographs. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Of all the lovely suburbs of Los Angeles, none offers such alluring attractions as Monrovia. West, Southern California, Monrovia, Los Angeles; Sepia Photographs; 8vo; 34 pages .

McMinnville, Oregon: Almon A. Kerry, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Size: octavo (5-3/4" x 9"). 64 pages. First blank fly-leaf bumped with resulting crease bottom front. -- The "Kerry Line" pamphlet is also in Near Fine Condition. The Kerry Line is bound in stiff cardboard wrappers and is 12 pages long.

Used- Faircondition.Signed by the author. Book shows shelf wear. Front cover has crease in bottom right corner. Fore edge of book has stains. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1989. Signed by Thomas McGuane on the title page. First edition / First printing. Tan cloth spine, green paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939. First Edition, 1st Printing. Very Good. SIGNED by Author [7.75x5.5in]; [10], xi-xiv, [2], 3-433 pp. [1], five plates with images and illustrations, fold out map, bibliography and index; Dark orange cloth covers with black lettering and gold illustration on spine paper label, top edge dark red ink and all edges trimmed; Minor shelf wear to covers, edges and corners, slight fading of spine cloth with some dark/light age toning of label, single scratch across label, Signed by Grant Foreman on front free end paper, prior owner ink inscription on half-title.

[Women] Bird, Isabella L A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. New York: Putnam's. 1894. Later edition. Brown cloth with gilt illustration. 20 cm. Plates. 296 pp. Two library stickers on front endpaper and front free endpaper. No spine markings. Light foxing. Very good. Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness. She was a single woman in her early forties when she made her trek through the Rocky Mountains. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains details this fascinating account of her travels through a series of letters written to her sister, Henrietta. These letters are filled with beautiful, vivid descriptions of the scenery, the people she encountered, the way of life, and a mountain man named Jim Nugent, that was as rough as they come, but a complete gentleman with Ms. Bird. She has the distinction of being the first woman to become a member of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892.

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Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, light shelf wear; protected in fresh mylar cover.
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The book begins with a description of the business of shore whaling in California. The second part describes the establishment and operation in California of the shore whaling companies, county by county. The final section provides a biography of known members of the various shore whaling companies.

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First edition / First printing. Full number line ending in 1 on the last page of text: 74 75 76 77 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. First issue dust jacket with incorrect nine digit SBN on back panel 06-452500-7 instead of ten digit ISBN 0-06-451990-2. Brown cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in a price-clipped, about fine first state dust jacket. The jacket is much more attractive than usual for this book. The author's first novel. Life on a reservation in the middle of the 20th Century.