Whispering Smith
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. 8vo (7.5 x 5.25). 420 pages. Frontispiece by N.C. Wyeth. Original red decorated cloth. First edition.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. 8vo (7.5 x 5.25). 420 pages. Frontispiece by N.C. Wyeth. Original red decorated cloth. First edition.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1908. 8vo. 347 pp. Plates. Original green decorated cloth, front cover with central square gilt panel. Spine a bit worn, small stain on cover, library inkstamp on verso of title and at end. FIRST EDITION.
Colorado: Franklin Press, 1908. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 419 pages. Boards.
Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1909. Folding colored map, sheet 27.75 x 31 inches. Insets lower right show New York City and Long Island. The steam railroad lines are shown in colors on the map, keyed in the upper left with a listing of the stations. Scale: 12 miles to.....
Boston: Privately Printed by the De Vinne Press for the Author, 1910. 8vo. xiii, 100 pages. Etched frontispiece with tissue guard preserved. Original quarter parchment, olive boards, untrimmed and unopened; felt-lined chemise; slipcase. One of an unspecified limited edition distributed to the author's friends, mostly members of the Bibliophile Society.....
Geneva, NY: Press of W. F. Humphrey, 1912. 8vo. 148 pp. Plates by H. DeF. Patterson. Original red cloth, lettered in black. A near-fine copy with slight toning to cloth. Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter (pencil note on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. Overland from Atchison, Kansas, to Denver. Indian raids.....
Geneva, NY: Press of W. F. Humphrey, 1912. 8vo. 148 pp. Plates by H. DeF. Patterson. Original red cloth, lettered in black. A near-fine copy with slight toning to cloth. FIRST EDITION. Overland from Atchison, Kansas, to Denver. Indian raids, badmen; Blackhawk, Colo., etc. Adams, Six-Guns 2465; Rader 3775.
Denver: Smith-Brooks Printing Co. for Thomas Tonge, 1913. 8vo. 112 pp. Profusely illustrated, including a map. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. A near-fine copy. FIRST EDITION. A detailed guide to Colorado, its natural resources, geography, ecology, economy, agriculture, etc. Wynar 2155.
Denver: Brock-Haffner Press, 1915. 8vo. 544 pp. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original green cloth. A very good copy, cover lettering somewhat rubbed, a few small marginal tears. 1919 owner's signature on title. FIRST EDITION, number 49 of 2000 copies of the private subscription edition. Wynar 131.
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1915. 12mo (6 3/4 x 4 inches). 30 pp. Large folding map tipped to inner rear wrapper. A few separations along folds, generally fine. Includes railroads and electric lines, counties, congressional townships, cities, towns, villages, post offices, lakes, rivers, etc.
Olympia: Frank M. Lamborn, 1916. 8vo. 110, [2] pp. Color plates and black-and-white illustrations, folding map tipped to rear inner wrapper. Original coated printed wrappers. Small stain on cover, inner joint reinforced with linen tape as issued. Contents include: Our Mountains, The Climate, Puget Sound, the Harbor Country, the Columbia.....
Los Angeles: The Phillips Publishing Company, 1916. Thick 4to. [16], 448 pp. Frontispiece numerous photographic plates. Original maroon limp morocco, top edges gilt. Some wear and discreet repair to fragile binding, internally fine. DELUXE EDITION, number 234 of an unspecified edition signed by the author. The numerous photographs include portraits.....
[Troy, NY]: 1916. 8vo. 29 pages. Three folding tables at end. Original printed wrappers. An impassioned address on the importance of New York Harbor, with remarks on its essential role in naval defense, the Harlem ship canal, and the water link between the Great Lakes and the New England seaboard.....
Denver: The Clason Map Co., [1916]. 6.25 x 4 inches. Large folding map mounted on inner rear cover. 48 pages. Wrappers.
[Pueblo, CO]: The Franklin Press Company, 1917. 8vo. 160 pp. Plates. Original cloth gilt. Light wear to binding, internally fine. FIRST EDITION. Howes W393 ("aa"); Wynar 1358.
Boulder CO: University of Colorado, 1918. 9 x 6 inches. 412 pages. Boards.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1925. 8vo. Plates by Zack Hogg. Original cloth, color print mounted on front cover. Some modest wear to cover, pale foxing.
New York: The American Museum of Natural History, n.d. [circa 1926]. 9.75 x 6.75 inches. Illustrated. Original wrappers. Fourth edition.
Salida: The Western Publishing Co., 1928. 8vo. 28 pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Some pale dampstaining to rear wrapper. Scarce promotional brochure for the central Colorado city in a valley formed by the Continental Divide on one side and the Sangre de Cristo range on the other. The many advertisements.....
New York: Rimington & Hooper, 1928. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches). Facsimile edition with a foreword by Phillips Russell. Original tan buckram; black buckram slipcase with printed paper label. Provenance: May H.C. Rimington, presumably a relative of the publisher (signature on pastedown within Ex Libris, inscription gifting it.....
Mohonk Lake: Lake Mohonk Mountain House, 1929. 8vo. 24 pages. Extensively illustrated with photographs. Original printed wrappers. A fine promotional brochure, with a laid in four-page folded sheet advertising Mountain Rest at Mohonk Lake.
Denver: The World Press, 1931. 8vo. 234 pp. Plates, including large folding map. Original cloth-backed blue boards, printed paper labels on front cover and spine, uncut and unopened. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, number 117 of 250 copies. Scarce. Howes M889.
Chatauqua, NY: The Chatauqua Press, 1931. 8vo. 394 pp. Plates. Original cloth. Modest shelfwear, some pale foxing. FIRST EDITION.
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1931. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. One of 550 copies of volume XVIII of the Publications of The Champlain Society.
Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico State Tourist Bureau, ca 1935. 4to. 32 pp., including color pictorial wrappers. Fine. A profusely illustrated advertisement of the state's riches.