A Peep at Washoe or, Sketch of Adventure in Virginia City
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1968. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; plain dust wrapper. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, number 694 of 1400 copies.
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Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk. With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. 8vo (7.75 x 5.25 inches). vii, 436 pages. Engravings in text, many full-page. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, "a long description of Juan Fernandez Island, which Browne visited in 1849, is given; it mentions Robinson Crusoe's cave, etc. The section on.....
Colorado Springs, Colorado and Its Famous Scenic Environs
Colorado Springs: 1893. Oblong 4to. Photogravure plates and a profusion of illustrations in text. Original cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered on front cover. Light soiling to covers, internally very clean and fresh. The second edition, after the first of the previous year. A lavishly illustrated work with descriptions and views of famous.....
Buena Vista and Tributary Mining Camps. A Sketch of the Mines of Cottonwood and La Plata Districts, Chaffee County, Colorado
Buena Vista, CO: Times Book and Job Rooms, 1882. Small 8vo (6 1/2 x 5 inches). [5], 6-37, [38-40] pp., including advertisements. Original printed wrappers; quarter morocco slipcase. Some soiling, a few discreet paper repairs. FIRST EDITION of this scarce pamphlet on Buena Vista, published three years after it was.....
American Broadsides
Barre, Mass. Imprint Society, 1971. Folio. Sixty black-and-white plates. Original blue cloth-backed boards; publisher's slipcase. Near-fine. FIRST EDITION.
A Long Road to Stony Creek
Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1971. Introduction and annotation by Richard Dillon. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; plain dust wrapper. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, number 279 of 650 copies.
Colorado Gold Mines and Ghost Camps
Fort Davis, TX: Frontier Book Co., 1969. 8vo. 112 pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Pale stain to wrappers. Originally published in 1897 as 'Colorado's Gold Fields. America's Most Famous Gold Mining Camps.'.
The Cambridge Directory for 1857: Embracing a List of the City Officers, a General Directory of the Citizens, and a Business Directory
Cambridge MA: John Ford at the Chronicle Office, 1857. First edition of the ninth in the series. 8vo. Engraved folding "Map of the City of Cambridge, Mass." after W.A. Mason, engineer and surveyor. Original blind-decorated brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Robert O. Fuller (pencil inscription on front flyleaf, he.....
Annals of Tryon County; or, the Border Warfare of New York During the Revolution
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Gazette Print, 1880. 8vo. 312 pages. Original brown blind-panelled cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; blue quarter morocco slipcase. Third edition, preserving the text of the first edition of both the Annals, and the Border Warfare that was published 18 years later. Scarce in this original condition.....
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson [Complete set published to date: Volumes 1 - 4]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982-2012. Four volumes. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jackets. FIRST EDITION. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION SET, EACH WARMLY INSCRIBED by Caro to the important biographer Robert K. Massie (with two additionally inscribed to his wife, literary agent Deborah Karl). Massie, known as a popularizer of history and.....
The Prophet of the Nineteenth Century: Or, the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Mormons or Latter-Day Saints, to Which is Appended, an Analysis of the Book of Mormon
London: J. G. F. & J. Rivington, 1843. First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece. Contemporary leather-backed boards. Frontispiece browned and name and note on front pastedown, heel of spine lacks a small chip. An Anti-Mormon work. The author is described on the title page as “Professor of Divinity in Kemper College, Missouri.”.....
By-Laws of the Chicago and Rock Island Rail Road Company. Adopted June 9th, 1858
New York: Benjamin F. Corlies, 1858. 8vo. 10 pages. Original glazed-paper printed wrappers. Nine articles outline the structure of the company, which had formed in 1847 as the Rock Island and LaSalle Rail Road Company, and reincorporated under its new name in 1851. OCLC 4997635. Eberstadt catalogue 131, item 354.....
Gazetteer & Business Directory of Madison County, NY for 1868-9
Syracuse, NY: The Journal Office, 1868. 8vo. 235 pages. Folding map (with stitched repair to tear). Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. Contains a long business directory of the communities of Madison County, New York, an index to advertisements, a history of the county including a section on.....
A Trip to Pikes Peak and Notes by the Way
Chicago: S. P. Rounds' Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1861. 8vo. 134 pp, errata leaf at end. 16 (of 17) plates (lacks frontispiece). 20th-century half citron morocco, cloth boards. Moderate browning, heavier on title, discreet blindstamp on title and plates, light wear to extremities. FIRST EDITION of one of.....
Colorado Towns and Resorts Issued by Silver Triennial Conclave Knights Templar
Denver: [Press of W.F. Robinson & Co.], 1892. Oblong. [72] pp, with 32 full-page halftone illustrations from photographs, printed in sepia. Original printed wrappers. Lacking original ties for wrappers, generally fine. A well-illustrated guide for visiting Knights Templar with descriptions and photographs of Colorado's many towns and geographical sites, including.....
History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado
Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1881. Thick 4to. [8], 11-889 pp. 178 plates. Original half brown morocco, pebbled cloth, all edges gilt. Endpapers renewed, some light wear. FIRST EDITION. A voluminous early Colorado mug book, with portraits and biographies of prominent citizens. Many handsome plates depict mining works, factories.....
History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado
Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1880. Thick 4to. [6], 11-652 pp. 103 plates. Original half brown morocco, pebbled cloth, all edges gilt. Some wear and staining to covers, rear hinge cracked. FIRST EDITION of the definitive history of Denver. Howes D-262; Wynar 855.
Official Information. Colorado. A statement of Facts prepared and published by authority of the Territorial Board of Immigration
Denver: Rocky Mountain News Steam Printing House for the Territorial Board of Immigration, 1872. 8vo. 35 pp. Original violet printed wrappers. Light wear. Contemporary manuscript docket on title, business card of Thayer & Stubbs real Estate, Loan and Collection Agency mounted on inner rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION of the first.....
Picturesque Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs 5 and 10 Store, n.d. Oblong (6 x 9 1/2 inches). 24 pp., of which 23 full-page black-and-white photographic illustrations. Stapled in original printed wrappers. Spine reinforced with tissue, parted from one staple, a few images with penciled captions. A fine promotional pamphlet.
Resources and Advantages of Colorado. Prepared and Published by Authority of the Territorial Board of Immigration
Denver: Territorial Board of Immigration, 1873. 8vo. 47 pp. Later marbled wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION of the second official pamphlet. Information on prospective immigrants to Colorado on topography, springs, climate, education, mines and mining, agriculture, stock raising, colonization, railways, Indians, etc. Adams, Herd 544 ("rare"); Eberstadt 114:242; McMurtrie 182. Not.....
Cover title: Salida the Gateway. Tourist's Guide & Buyer's Information
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.....
Salida, Gem of the Rockies. A Brief Description of Its Resources, Its Climate, Its Advantages. Presented as a Souvenir to The Knights Templars who Visited the Conclave at Denver, August 9-12, 1892
[Salida]: [Denver Photo Engraving Co], [1892]. Oblong. [48] pp, the last blank. Illustrated. Original paper-backed wrappers, stapled. A well-illustrated commemorative pamphlet for the Knights Templar, meant to encourage investment in Colorado. Discussing the railroad, climactic advantages, mineral resources, and listing business and social additions that Salida wants especially. Wynar 741.....
San Juan County in the 1890s
San Juan: Silverton Standard, Dec. 1, 1899 [reprint 1977]. Oblong. 7 x 10 1/2 inches. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Dampstained. Reprint.
A Brief History of Logan County, Colorado with Reminiscences by Pioneers
Denver: Welch-Haffner Printing Company, 1928. 8vo. 354 pp. Illustrations in text. Original blue gilt-lettered cloth. Sheet edges foxed, otherwise a near-fine copy. FIRST EDITION. Compiled and arranged for the Elbridge Gerry Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, with a presentation inscription from the DAR chapter. Details gold, stock.....
The Colorado Directory of Mines, Containing a Description of the Mines and Mills, and the Mining and Milling Corporations of Colorado, Arranged Alphabetically by Counties, and a History of Colorado from Its Early Settlement to the Present Time
Denver: Rocky Mountain News Printing Company, 1879. 8vo. [17]-440 pp. Illustrated advertisements at front and back, included in pagination. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt title and illustrated Seal of Colorado on front cover, gilt title with small decorations on spine. Pale stain on cover, generally fresh and bright. FIRST EDITION. Detailed.....