Gering, NE: Courier Press, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. 288 pp. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Rubbing to gilt at spine and front and boards lightly worn at extremities. Binding sound. Ownership inscription of Robert L. Antsey dated 1940 to front free endpaper, and pages..... More
Fairbanks and Chatanika, Alaska: Huey Foto / Huey and Hyland Foto, 1909-1910. Two original photographs from the 1909 and 1910 midnight baseball games held in Chatanika and Fairbanks, Alaska. Mounted on black cardstock with "Chatanika Alaska July 4th One A.M. 1909" to first and "Midnight Ball Game Fairbanks-vs-Chatanika. June 19-1910..... More
Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1965. First Edition, First Printing (no additional printings listed). Octavo; 368pp. Illustrations throughout, with folding map at back. Illustrated dust jacket with $11.00 price intact; bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a closed 3" tear at top front (tape-repaired..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 2013. Third Printing. Signed by the author "To Steve" on full title. Octavo; [xiv], 289pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $27.99 price intact; purple paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and copper lettering. Jacket is clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and..... More
Washington, DC: Published by the Author / Press of Byron S. Adams, 1921. Second Edition. Octavo. 431 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Printed wraps. Light rubbing to edges of wraps and binding sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but otherwise pages unmarked. Originally..... More
San Francisco, CA: Francis & Valentine, Steam Printers and Engravers, 1871. First Edition. Octavo. 31 pp. Printed wraps. Wear to edges with dampstaining to front and rear wrap, very faintly to interior edges, not affecting text; binding sound; vertical crease through center; else Very Good and legible throughout... More
Cincinnati: 1833. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's blue cloth, printed paper spine label; xi,[12]-155pp. Textblock recased in binding, cloth a bit soiled and spine label mostly effaced, textblock quite browned and brittle with rather extensive biopredation to extremities though loss never touches text, dampstaining throughout, contemporary ownership signature to title page..... More
New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961. Reprint, part of a limited edition of 750 copies. Thick octavo. 580 pp. Black and white photographs. Red cloth boards stamped in black and gilt. Red topstain. Publisher's promotional slip laid in at front. Touch of rubbing at base of spine and..... More
Custer, SD: The Chronicle Shop, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. 102, [2] pp., though with leaf with pp. 13 and 14 misbound after title and before dedication — presumably a binder's error and else collated and complete. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Suede-textured wraps. Light wear to wraps; binding..... More
Carmel-by-the-Sea: The Friends of Photography and the Weston Gallery, 1979. Oblong Quarto (23x28.5x1cm); partially paginated 32pp + [104pp]. Fifty-one full-page plates in sepia B&W with additional background and reference images. Photographic card covers over sewn gatherings. Front cover with a convex horizontal bow toward fore-edge, with some smudging to back..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1936. Stated First Edition. Octavo; 272pp. Illustrated dust jacket with advertising blurbs for du Maurier, Graham Greene, and others on backside. Mango cloth with front panel stamp of cowboy and horse jumping, in hunter green; hunter green title cartouche on spine. Dust jacket..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's two-toned boards in pictorial dust jacket; [12],192pp.; map endpapers. Light shelf wear, a hint of cockling to dust jacket, brief water spot to rear jacket panel, else Very Good or better. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on..... More
Chicago: W.E. Dibble & Co., 1890. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's brown pictorial cloth embossed in black and gilt; viii,[9]-473,[1](ad)pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, illustrations throughout, many full-paged (collated complete, though view of Uncle Dick's home in the mountains misbound facing p. 281). Extremities rather scuffed with shallow loss at corners..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 269 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in white and tan. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with several closed tears and tape mending to verso. Boards show light shelfwear, corners..... More
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1937. First Edition. Octavo. 378 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations including frontispiece, complete. Red cloth boards with spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Boards lightly worn at extremities with slightly heavier wear and minor fraying..... More
New York: Alliance Press, [1936]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth lettered in black; 56pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, ten leaves of plates. Pinpoint wear to extremities, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed on half title: "To my old time pioneer friend who knows and appreciates Indians--Homer Reams [?]..... More
De Luxe Edition. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1969. De Luxe Edition, numbered 198 of 300 copies. Signed by both Jackson and Getlein twice--once without inscription on full title, then again each with a brief inscription to prior owner on half title. Oblong octavo (8.5" x 10.75"); 98pp. Full calf with..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press / Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1987. First Edition. Large quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's boards in mustard pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[1],239pp.; half-tone illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, light dust-soil to rear jacket panel, spine panel sunned, else Very Good and..... More
Wooster, OH: Wooster Republican, 1881. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; 23pp. Preliminary gathering separated but present, light dust-soil to extremities, else a Good, still quite fresh copy. Partisan address in favor of James A. Garfield for president, decrying the perfidy of the Democrats in regards to proposed restitutions given..... More
Advance Reading Copy. Softcover. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Advance Reading Copy. Signed by author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 390pp. Pictorial paper wraps with publisher's info on back. Cover has only minor edgewear and rubbing, no tears or chips. Back lower left corner has been slightly bumped and there..... More
[Denver?]: [s.i.], 1907. First Edition. Octavo. 21 pp. Printed wraps. Chipping to top corners with toning along edges. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Dodge served as Grant's intelligence chief in the Western Theater of the Civil War, and in the later stages of the war was put in..... More
Philadelphia: John E. Potter and Company, [1851 but ca. 1880s]. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's brick pictorial cloth, front cover stamped in black, spine titled in black and gilt, floral endpapers; 448pp.; frontispiece and added title page, engravings throughout, many full-paged. Brief scuffing at corners and spine ends, spine cocked and gilt..... More
Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1948. First Edition. Octavo; 164pp. 125 illustrations, 22 of which are full-color and tipped-in. Printed paper wraps. Covers a touch faded at top and bottom edges, with light bumping to corners and at head of spine, and a couple small spots to front..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. First Thus. Octavo. 259 pp. Black and white photographs. Black boards lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. Very mild spotting and rubbing to boards and top of spine creased. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. More
Kansas City, MO: R.M. Rigby Printing Co., [1904]. First Edition. Octavo. [18] pp., "Monument of James Bridger" plate present, though lacking initial frontis photo of Bridger. Printed wraps, inscribed though not signed by Grenville Dodge and "With compliments of" to front wrap. Light wear to edges of wraps..... More