New York: Argosy-Antiquarian, 1965. 4 volumes, thick 8vo, original maroon cloth, black labels lettered in gilt; very good set. Still an excellent reference. More
New York: George P. Putnam, 1851. 8vo, pp. [6], 72, [2], 2 [ads], 2 [ads], 6 [ads on yellow paper]; 5 plates; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped upper cover; a few cracks in the cloth along the hinges neatly repaired with small strips of cellotape; otherwise a very good copy. An..... More
Cincinnati: stereotyped and published by J. A. James & Co., 1836. First edition, 12mo, pp. xii, 13-336; folding map by E.F. Lee hand-colored in outline; very minor foxing; a near fine, tight copy in original green floral-patterned cloth, printed paper label on spine. "Conditions just prior to the Revolution described..... More
Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848. First edition, House issue; 8vo, pp. 614; 2 folding maps (1 miscreased), 67 lithograph plates and plans, a few illustrations in the text; original brown cloth, printed paper label on spine scraped, affecting 3 letters; small breaks at the spine ends; piece from p...... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1982]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 317; original brown cloth, spine and cover lettered in gilt, near fine. The works listed are divided into sections, Bibliographies, Anthologies, General Works, Special Topics (such as Western film and Indian literature), and Works on Individual Authors. More
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1953. First edition, "designed and printed by Ward Ritchie," 12mo, pp. xi, [1], 75, [1]; frontispiece illustration, title-page printed in red and black; a near fine copy in original red cloth and wrap-around printed paper label, a small smudge each to covers and slight darkening to..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. Second edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 454; nice copy in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked with new red morocco label on spine. Printed the same year as the first edition. Howes F65: "Unflattering picture of the western frontier."... More
London: Longman, Hurst [et al.], 1818. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 462; recent blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; a Newberry Library duplicate, with a bookplate marked withdrawn, call numbers in gilt on spine, and a small rubberstamp on the title page; all else fine in a sound utilitarian binding. Clark..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1951. Edition limited to 850 copies, small 4to, 12 numbers in all, each a bifolium with critical commentary, and each with a facsimile playbill laid in; without the publisher's slipcase, else a fine set. Issued as no. 14 in a series of keepsakes issued..... More
New York: KTAV Publishing House, [c1985]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 217, plus 12 pages family trees; full-page map plus many illus. throughout text, mostly from photos; very good in slightly smudged dustjacket. With extensive notes and index. The genealogies show Spiegelberg, Staab, Bibo, Zeckendorf-Steinfeld, Floersheim, and Schwartz descendants in..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1952]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 272; plates; endpapers darkened, else fine in original gray cloth, good jacket with price clipped and internal tape reinforcement. More
[St. Paul: Padelford Packet Boat Co., 1994.]. Oblong 8vo, pp. [8], 80; 2 full-page maps, text illustrations, photographs; brown cloth over boards, printed paper onlay on upper cover, fine. A collection of memoirs from two generations of the Flatten family. Not in OCLC as of 6/17. More
Washington, D.C. Judd & Detweiler, 1885. 8vo, pp. 12; frontispiece, 5 leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos, folding map bound in back; original blue printed wrappers, three shallow losses to back cover edges, spine tips perished; interior fine. More
Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1921-30. First edition limited to 200 numbered copies, of which this is no. 51, signed by the author in volumes 1-3; the fourth, published posthumously, is signed by the editor, Solon J. Buck; 4 volumes, large 8vo; frontispieces, plates and maps, some folding; original three-quarter..... More
Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1845. First edition, the preferred Senate issue (containing an additional 110 pages of astronomical observations), 8vo, pp. 693, [1]; 22 lithograph plates and 5 maps (3 folding), including the large folding map by Charles Preuss in the back cover pocket; some spotting, but the plates generally..... More
Leiden: Boekdrukkerij v/h. L. van Nifterik Hz. 1917. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 130, [2]; laid in, as issued, is a full octavo gathering of Stellingen (i.e. theses); original green printed wrappers, extremities faded to brown; very good. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate with a Newberry release stamp on the verso..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1981]. Second edition, large 8vo, pp. x, [2], 316; profusely illustrated throughout, mostly after photographs, and including many maps; original pictorial paper-covered boards printed in black and red, the fore corners a bit bumped and very light wear to extremities, else near fine. A review..... More
Philadelphia & St. Louis: Sower, Barnes & Co. and E. K. Woodward, 1860. 8vo, pp. 194; 6 folding maps (4 hand colored); original brown cloth, gilt title on spine; spine chipped, cracked and with loss; edges rubbed, lacking front free endpaper, owner's signature on flyleaf and a couple small notes..... More
New York: Bonanza Books, [1953]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xxii, 413; 80 illustrations including frontispiece; 2 newspaper articles taped on free endpapers; near fine copy in slightly rubbed dust jacket. More
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1840. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 228; large folding map; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ex-Northern Pacific Railway Co. with their small rubberstamp on the flyleaf and a small accession label at the base of the spine; spine ends lightly chipped, else a very good copy..... More
Los Gatos: the Talisman Press, 1961. First edition, 1 0f 750 copies, pp. 524; illus.; fine in original red cloth, good dust-jacket with some chips, edgewear and darkened spine. More
Elgin, Ill. & Chicago: David C. Cook, [1901]. First edition; small 4to, pp. 96; text printed in double column; numerous illustrations from photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers; small piece missing from the top corner of the rear wrapper, text toned; all else very good. Issued as no. 11 in the..... More
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1965-1972. First editions throughout, 10 volumes, frontispieces in each (in color in volume I), folding map, illustrations throughout; a fine set in original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines. A monumental effort tracing the contributions of individual "mountain men" to the westward advancement of the American frontier..... More
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1965-1972. First edition, 9 volumes, frontispieces in each (that inh vol. I in full color), folding map in vol. I, illustrations throughout; a fine set in original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, slight wear to extremities; vols. VII, VIII, & IX retaining their plain kraft paper..... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1995. First edition thus, limited to 750 copies, 8vo, pp. 333, [2]; double-p. map; ink marginalia on p. 181, else fine in orig. gilt-stamped brown cloth. Sketches of 22 French mountain men, traders and trappers (Larpenteur, Franchere and LeDuc among them) from the publisher's original..... More
