Cripple Creek, Colorado: Miners' Protective Assn. 1915. Original document. Printed form, accomplished by hand. Datelined Cripple Creek, Colo., June 29 1915. W. Forest Hodgin, age 21, unmarried, born in Indiana and residing at Welty Block, Cripple Creek, states his occupation as Mill Man. He has had 4 months experience with...
1892. Original manuscript. 2pp, octavo, written in sepia ink in a readable hand. The agreement between Henry Chattillon, agent for W.H. Williams of Denver, and W.A. Maxfield, provides that "parties of the second part will sink a Shaft 5 ft by 8 ft in the clear upon the Bestie lode...
1896. Original manuscripts. Two documents, folio, dated February 8, 1896. (1 ) Indenture of Agreement to Assign Lease and Agreement of Sale of the John Kyle and Gurley Lode Claims to Robert Billings, 8pp on tissue stock, signed by J.N. Porter, President. (2) Assignment of Lease and Agreement to Sell...
Denver, Colorado: Scott & Austin, Reynolds Companies, circa 1885. Original edition. Broadsheet, 8" x 6", printed on card stock, blue lettering and red borders. The Scott Hardware side features an anvil at the center. Faint bleeding of the red ink, still attractive. Windsor Stables were part of the grand Windsor...
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[Colorado Springs]: [Thayer & Howbert], [1880s]. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Contains 12 plates of views in leporello (accordion-fold) format. Based on photographs, the views include: Manitou with Pike's Peak in the Distance; Manitou Bath House; Ute Iron Spring; Colorado College, Colorado Springs; The Antlers; Colorado Springs and Pike's Peak from...
[Colorado Springs]: [Thayer & Howbert], [1880s]. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Contains 12 plates of views in leporello (accordion-fold) format. Based on photographs, the views include: Manitou with Pike's Peak in the Distance; Manitou Bath House; Ute Iron Spring; Colorado College, Colorado Springs; The Antlers; Colorado Springs and Pike's Peak from...
Brooklyn, NY: Albertype Co., circa 1918. First Edition. Softcover. Contains 11 leaves printed in sepia ink on heavy stock, rectos only: one page of text, 10 views from photographs. Ribbon-tied, pictorial cream wrappers. 4.75" x 6.5" Views include: Entrance to Pike's Peak Auto Highway; Ute Pass; Glen Cove; Serpentine Trail;...
Albuquerque: U New Mexico Press, 1959. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. pp: (vii), 150; 16pp illus from photographs, most in full color. Pictorial tan cloth, stamped in red; price-clipped, lightly worn dust wrapper. 10.25" x 7" Contents: What is a kachina? Making a kachina doll. Principal features of kachina dolls...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xix, 291; index; 32 plates from photographs; spine expertly repaired. 9.5" x 6" [Adams, Rampaging Herd, 369. Six-Guns, 484. Graff Collection, 863. Decker 26:88. Reese, Six Score, 23: "...Cook's ranching career...varied life in other roles...much material on Indian wars...
Berkeley: Univ of California, 1911. First Edition. Softcover. 167pp; foldout frontispiece showing Costanso's 1770 map of California. Bound in printed tan wrappers. 9.25" x 6"
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1927. Third printing. Pictorial Cloth. pp: x, 364; frontispiece and 52 illustrations from photographs on plate stock, foldout map of Navajo and Hopi Country. Bound in black cloth, orange lettering, cover picture in purple and orange, top edges gilt. 9" x 6" [Decker 27:154.[.
Worcester, MA: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1899. First book edition. Original Wraps. 26pp. First published in the AAS Proceedings, October 1898. 10" x 6"
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Chicago: Overland Publishing Co., 1878. First Edition. Original Cloth. Erratic pagination as noted by WorldCat. pp: (vi), (25-257+301-322, 2 ads); frontispiece, 18 double plates of Western views, other illustrations and maps in the text. Some of the double plates have ads printed on their versos. The rear pastedown is a....
Chicago & Philadelphia: H.J. Smith, 1889. Original Cloth. pp: 252, (1); plates, illustrations in the text; lacking the folding map. 9" x 4.75" Lacks the folding map.
NY: J.H. Colton, 1852. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. pp: 351, (18) ads for Colton's maps, charts and books; large, engraved, folding map tipped in at front as issued. Blind-stamped purple cloth, spine tanned as usual. Upper portion of rear joint wormed; still a clean, tight copy of this desirable book...
NY: J.H. Colton, 1852. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. pp: 351, (18) ads for Colton's maps, charts and books; large, engraved, folding map tipped in at back as issued. Blind-stamped green cloth, spine ends and tips rubbed. Gilt-stamped on the cover is the name, A. Sheldon Clark. 7.5" x 5" Endpaper...
St. Paul: Pioneer Press Co., Printers, 1883. First Edition. Calf & Boards. pp: vii, (i), 166 with index, erratum slip tipped at front. Bound in half-calf and marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in blind; some edge wear to boards, else clean and tight. 9" x 5.75" Sets forth laws...
Bismark, Dakota: Tribune Printers & Binders, 1888. First Edition. Original Cloth. 85pp. Bound in maroon cloth, blind-ruled borders, gilt cover lettering. Major sections of this report are: Report of the Commissioner of Immigration: Report of Territorial Statistician; Dakota Weather Service; Agricultural Products; Land Entries (settlers and homesteaders); The Railroads. 9.5"...
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Fort Union, D.T. Winegar & Goodwin, circa 1964. Centennial reprints. Printed self-wrappers. Three issues, 4pp each, three-column format with rules; one horizontal fold. Contents are outlined as follows. (#1) A poem by R.H. Stoddard. "The Rescued Maiden," a short story by Ben. Barnacle. A problem with mail and supplies from...
NY: Bourne Music, 1946. First Edition. Softcover. pp: 47, (1) ad; portrait,19 illus from photographs on centerspread. Contains words and music to 15 songs, including: Silver Stars, Purple Sage, Eyes of Blue; Strawberry Blonde (On the Strawberry Roan); They Call Me Happy Go Lucky (Denver Darling's theme song); Wabash Moon;...
Somerville, N.J. C.H. Bateman, 1897. First Edition. Original Cloth. 150pp; frontispiece with six portraits. Bound in green cloth, gilt lettering and monogram on cover, patterned endpapers; lower tip of cover discolored. 7.75" x 5.75" Includes chapters on: Sleeping Cars (detailing the 14 occupied by this group); San Francisco; Monterey and...
Washington DC: GPO, 1905. First Separate Edition. Original Wrappers. pp: iii, (157-199). Bound in tan wrappers, cover lettering and seal printed in black. 9" x 5.75" Covers gold and silver minng in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming during 1903. [See Alliot, Bibliography of Arizona, 63.].
Elizabeth, NJ / NYC: Palmer & Co. / James Miller, 1870. Second Edition. Original Cloth. 512pp; frontispiece, pictorial half-title, plates with tissue guards; light foxing at plates. 9.25" x 6" General Kearny was born in New York City in 1815 and died near Chantilly, Virginia in 1862. His exciting career...
Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Institute of Science, (1954). First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. pp: xiv, (iii), 185 with index, colophon; 16 color plates, 23 drawings on text stock. Bound in terracotta cloth, lettering and cover picture in silver; top edge of rear board scuffed, prior owner's name on endpaper. 9.25" x 6"
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xii, 329 w/index; 42 illustrations, most on plate stock. One leaf at back roughly opened. 9.5" x 6.25" [Howes, USiana Final Edition, D458 (b). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators, Remington 529, &c. Decker 30:152.].
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