Peak and Prairie from a Colorado Sketchbook
New York: G. P. Putnam's 1894. 12mo. 391 pp. Original pale green decorated cloth. Spine lightly stained, some minor handling wear. FIRST EDITION.
A fine private collection of 229 items relating to Colorado, the West, and the railroad.
New York: G. P. Putnam's 1894. 12mo. 391 pp. Original pale green decorated cloth. Spine lightly stained, some minor handling wear. FIRST EDITION.
Lincoln: Journal Company, 1887. 8vo. 16pp. Very fine folding map by F. Hirschfeld, with railroad routes in color, printed Chicago: Shober & Carqueville: "Map of Nebraska and Eastern Colorado." Original printed wrappers. Some light soiling, pale marginal stain; map with a few small separations along folds. FIRST EDITION, published by.....
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.....
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co, 1882. 8vo. 240 pp, 16 pp advertisements at end. Large folding color map mounted on rear pastedown. Original gilt-lettered green cloth. A very good copy with some discreet restoration to joints and hinges, map with a few small reinforcements along folds on verso. FIRST EDITION.....
Boston: Universalist Publishing House, 1891. 8vo. 245 pp. Original blue cloth, decorated in black and gilt. Slightly leaned, light wear at extremities. Fourth edition. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper by the author in 1893, to Ellen H. Davis.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. 8vo. 256 pp, 4 pp advertisements at end. Folding lithographed frontispiece map. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A very good copy, spine slightly sunned, map with pale dampstain. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest – if not the earliest – books.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. 8vo. 256 pp, 4 pp advertisements at end. Folding lithographed frontispiece map. Original red embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest – if not the earliest – books on Kansas, considered the best book on the.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880. Tall 8vo. 200 pp. Frontispiece map, illustrations in text. Original green black-decorated and gilt-lettered cloth. Some wear at ends of spine, front free endpaper partly loose, hinges cracked, but a fresh copy. FIRST EDITION. Contains some material on road agents and stage coach robberies.....
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1957. 8vo. 340 pp. Plates. Original blue cloth. Fine. Revised edition, with folding map and extensive bibliography.
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.
Denver: Pierson & Gardner, 1884. 12mo. 319 pp. Illustrations in text. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A very good copy with light wear to the ends of spine. FIRST EDITION. An interesting reminiscences of pioneer women in the ranch country of Colorado. Campbell, p. 165; Howes H480; Wynar 132.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1872. 8vo. 170 pp. Original green cloth. Library stamps and pencilings, gift inscription on pastedown, wear at extremities. FIRST EDITION. A privately circulated journal. Its preface reminded "those to whom it is sent... not to part with [their copies] as, for obvious reasons, he would not.....
Chatauqua, NY: The Chatauqua Press, 1931. 8vo. 394 pp. Plates. Original cloth. Modest shelfwear, some pale foxing. FIRST EDITION.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852. 8vo. 176 pages.; 12, [2] pages. advertisements at end. Wood-engraved title, illustrations in text, large folding map of the New York and Erie Rail Road by J. M. Atwood after J. Disturnell, 10 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches. Original printed wrappers. Spine worn, wrappers.....
Washington, D. C. Government Printing Office, 1876. 4to. ii, [1], 152 pp. 11 fine chromolithographic and 11 lithographic plates. Large folding map. Original black cloth. Spine perished, light intermittent spotting. FIRST EDITION. Macomb's expedition "showed conclusively that no feasible supply route existed leading into the Great Basin from that direction.....
Denver: The Smith-Brooks Printing Company, 1900. 8vo. 528 pp. Illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Front hinge tender, lacks free endpaper. Provenance: John W. Springer, Denver (inkstamp on title). With a fine provenance, as Springer was President of the Association. Covers Denver, the leading livestock markets, American horses, industry.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1869. 8vo. Three plates. 456 pp. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A few discreet repairs to cloth, generally fresh and bright. FIRST EDITION, signed by the author on the front flyleaf. "Trip across the plains and great divide into Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Montana; adventures.....
Washington, D. C. Government Printing Office, 1900. 8vo. 16pp. Folding map. Disbound.
Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1970. Tall 8vo. Original cloth boards; dust jacket. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, distributed by advance subscription only.
N.p. N.d. Folio. Two reproductions of broadsides. Laid loose as issued in cloth-backed board portfolio. Light wear to portfolio, generally fine. Copy number 127, signed by Mumey.
Denver: Nolie Mumey, 1959. Reprint of Chicago: Wm. H Rand, 1859. 20 pp., folding map. Maroon buckram; slipcase with paper label. Fine. Number 223 of an unspecified limitation of Pike's Peak guidebook series 14. See Graff 3229; Howes P167; Wagner-Camp-Becker 341; Wynar 3421.
Denver: Nolie Mumey, 1963. Reprint of Chicago, 1859. 10 pp., ads, folding map. Cream wrappers; slipcase with paper label. Fine. Number 291 of an unspecified edition of Pike's Peak guidebook series 18. See Wagner-Camp-Becker 341a; Wynar 3418.
Denver: Nolie Mumey, n.d. Reprint of Chicago, 1859. 70 pp., ads, folding map. Yellow wrappers; slipcase with paper label. Fine. An unspecified limitation of Pike's Peak guidebook series 13. See Howes P553; Wagner-Camp-Becker 342; Wynar 3423.
Denver: Nolie Mumey, 1959. Reprint of New York; J. H. Colton, 1859. 24 pp., folding map. Cream wrappers; slipcase with paper label. Fine. Number 167 of an unspecified edition of Pike's Peak guidebook series 17. See Howes R167; Wagner-Camp-Becker 343a; Wynar 3426.
Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1966. 4to. 188 pp. Original cloth; glassine. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, number 355 of 400 copies signed. Wynar 9140.