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, 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.....
Barre, Mass. Imprint Society, 1971. Folio. Sixty black-and-white plates. Original blue cloth-backed boards; publisher's slipcase. Near-fine. FIRST EDITION.
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.
N.p. Litchman's for Claire B. Clark, [1971]. Reprint of the scarce 1934 edition, with slip laid-in indicating that profits are going to Marblehead charities. 8vo. One leaf text, 16 woodcuts, one leaf colophon and afterword. Original orange printed wrappers. This edition was authorized to reproduce the charming woodcuts of Frank.....
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.'.
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.....
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.”.....
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.....
Chicago: S. P. Rounds' Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1861. 8vo. 134 pp, errata leaf at end. 17 plates including frontispiece). Original blind embossed black cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. Light wear along spine, but a near-fine, complete copy in its original publisher's binding. FIRST EDITION of one of.....
Denver: Clason Map Company, 1915. 8vo. 318 pp. Several in-text photo illustrations, including double page "Bird's-eye View of Colorado", folded color map "Clason's Guide Map to Colorado" (19 x 24 inches) laid in pocket on rear pastedown. Original green cloth, lettered in white on front cover and spine. Hinges cracked.....
Boston and Gardiner, ME: Bela Marsh and the author, 1856. 12mo. 362 pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Clay by H. Wright Smith. Original embossed cloth. SCARCE FIRST EDITION of Clay's prison narrative, written during his six month's confinement in the Augusta, Maine jail. Clay was convicted in 1854 for "lewd.....
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.....
New York: Hastings House, 1941. 8vo. 511 pp. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original cloth; dust jacket. Some wear to jacket at extremities, lightly toned, but a very good copy overall. FIRST EDITION. Compiled by workers of the writers' program of the WPA and sponsored by the Colorado State Planning Commission.....
![Cover title:] Album of Colorado Views. COLORADO](/pictures/thumb/403778.JPG?v=1578427206)
New York: Witteman Brothers, ca 1890. Accordion form (3 x 4 1/2inches). Artotype plates. Mounted in the original blind-embossed, gilt-lettered brown cloth binding. A near-fine copy. A fine accordion-form panorama with 30 views on 18 panels.
![Cover title:] Album of Views on the Denver & Rio Grande. COLORADO](/pictures/thumb/403753.JPG?v=1578427191)
Denver: W. H. Lawrence & Co., n.d.1886. Accordion form (7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches). Artotype plates. Mounted in the original gilt- and blind-decorated and -lettered red cloth binding. Gilt somewhat rubbed, a few chips. A fine accordion-form panorama containing 21 images on 14 panels.
![Cover title:] Album of Views on the Denver & Rio Grande. COLORADO](/pictures/thumb/403782.JPG?v=1578427088)
Denver: W. H. Lawrence & Co., 1886. Accordion form (7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches). Artotype plates. Mounted in the original black- and gilt-decorated red cloth binding. Covers rubbed and with some pale stains. First panel partly separated along fold. Owner's inkstamp on rear endleaves. A fine accordion-form panorama with.....
![Cover title:] Colorado. [Views]. COLORADO](/pictures/thumb/403751.jpg?v=1578427188)
N.p. n.d. Accordion form (5 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches). Artotype plates. Mounted in the original gilt- and blind-decorated and -lettered cloth binding. Gilt somewhat rubbed, a few chips. A fine accordion-form panorama containing 21 images on 12 panels. The last is signed "J D Paris."
![Cover title:] Souvenir of Glenwood Springs Colo. "The Greatest Sanitarium in the World" COLORADO](/pictures/thumb/403780.JPG?v=1578427086)
Glenwood Springs: Beans & Keck, ca 1890. Accordion form (4 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches). Artotype plates. Mounted in the original blind-embossed, gilt-lettered red cloth binding. Slightly rubbed, generally fine. A fine accordion-form panorama with 11 panels.
Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1880. Thick 4to. [6], 11-713 pp. 76 full page portraits and 16 views. Original half brown morocco, pebbled cloth, all edges gilt; slipcase. Endpapers renewed, a bright, fresh copy. FIRST EDITION. Early descriptions and historical summaries of Colorado's railroads, Gilpin County, Clear Creek County.....
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.....
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.
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.....
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.
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.....