Albuquerque, NM: Fred Harvey, Indian Department, 1934. Fifth Edition. Original Wrappers. Unpaginated; 31 full-color plates from paintings, text on facing versos. Bound in pictorial stiff wrappers, pictograph endpapers; spine ends bumped. In the original mailing portfolio, worn at the edges. 11.5" x 8.5" More
Beverly Hills, CA: Tim Spencer Music, 1951. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. 4pp, words and music, in part: "I'm hangin' all my teardrops out to dry For baby I ain't gonna cry no more. No more! I may be blue and lonely till I die...." 12" x 9" On the cover..... More
Boise: Idaho Chamber of Commerce, 1950. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. 16pp; illus from photographs, map. Describes and pictures the "Gem of the Mountains": its hunting and fishing opportunities, wildlife, lumbering, etc. The front cover shows a mounted Native American in full headdress and regalia. 7.5" x 5.5"... More
Twin Falls, Idaho: Twin Falls County, 1936. First Edition. Original Wraps. 32pp; illus throughout from photographs. Printed in blue ink at the Buhl, Idaho "Herald." This program also promotes tourism in Idaho. 10" x 7.5" More
New-York: Isaac J. Oliver, Printer, 1856. First edition thus. Softcover. 64pp, sewn. Self-wrappers, string tied; faint foxing to first and last few leaves. 8.5" x 5.5" [Sabin 34317--more acreage was offered in 1854 and 1855. Buck, Travel & Description, locates five copies with this variant imprint by Oliver.]... More
Chicago: Illinois Central Rail Road Office, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. 80pp. Bound in at front: Outline Map of Illinois; Railway Guide to the Illinois Central Rail Road Lands (double-page map); woodcut frontispiece, "Prairie Scene in Illinois." Six woodcuts in the text. Bound in at back: four pages of broadside-style ads..... More
Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, (1852). First Edition. Eight verses and chorus, in part: "Now since you have asked a song of me, I will sing a song of woe .... Her father was an Indian chief,-- In ambush he had lain, To rob the wearied soldier boys, Likewise the baggage..... More
Atoka, Oklahoma: 1899. Original manuscript. One page, quarto, written in sepia ink on lined paper. Territorial Clerk, E.J. Tannin, certifies that O.H. Etting is the official Notary Public for the Central District of the Indian Territory, "that he was appointed in open court on the 30th day of November, 1897..... More
1903. Original documents. Nine items, octavo and duodecimo. (1) Sapulpa Lodge, A.O.U.W [Ancient Order of United Workmen]., ALS re a Medical Examination Policy and Benefits Policy. (2) Addie Lodge, A.O.U.W., ANS re Beneficiary Certificate. (3) US Court in the Indian Territory, receipt for deposit in the Guardianship Case of Lizzie..... More
Oklahoma City: H.H. Clarke, (1906). Original document. Photo-illustration in black and white. Messages on front and back are written in sepia ink and pencil. In part: "This is the cotton press in I.T. They have so much cotton there...." Addressed to Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, and signed by Orlena Schenk. 3.5"..... More
Washington DC: USGPO, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. 4pp, removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. Regards "interest due the Osage Indians on the net avails of their trust and diminished reserve lands, sold under...their treaty of September 29, 1865....An estimate of appropriation in the sum of $189,981.17..... More
Washington DC: USGPO, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. 3pp, removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. Calls for enlarging the Pawnee Reservation, "made necessary by reason of the fact that a number of said tribe have made improvements in good faith upon lands supposed to be within their..... More
[Vinita, Indian Territory]: [Chieftain Print], 1892. First Edition. Printed Self-wrappers. 44pp, unfolded and unbound. Title-page in English and Cherokee. Text in Cherokee. Paper toned, but sound. Printed on leaves 6.25" x 8" Reverend Chamberlin went to Pheasant Hill, in what is now Craig County, Oklahoma, in 1868, several years before..... More
1904. Original document. One page, quarto, sepia ink in a bold, legible hand. Addressed to A. Nicodemus, G.R., Norman, Oklahoma, approving the Med[ical] Ex[amination] of Bro. T.H. Smith, sending a $1.00 check for a Ben[eficiary] C[ertificate], etc. Dated Feb. 12, 1904. Signed, "Yours in C.H.& P. / I.W. Saunders." The..... More
Washington DC: (GPO), 1897. First Edition. Softcover. 29pp, drop-title, removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 9" x 5.75" More
Afton, I.T. Jeremiah Hubbard, 1894. First Edition. Softcover. 4pp, printed in a small and legible typeface. Self-wrappers. 9" x 6". The first 2-3/4 pages recount Quaker missionary Hubbard's train trip with his wife and young son from Afton, I.T. to Oakland, California, including a visit to the Midwinter Fair in..... More
Guthrie, OK: Bank of Indian Territory, 1899. Original document. This check features the portrait of a Native American and the name of Ferdinand Ritterbusch, Treasurer, Logan County. Datelined Guthrie, Okla. Jun. 3rd, 1899 [changed to 1900]. In the amount of $25.75, the check is payable to J.M. McDowell. Signed at..... More
Muskogee, I.T. Clarence H. Douglas, Editor & Publisher, 1903. First Edition. 6pp, few illustrations, printed on pulp stock. Articles include: Went to Indianola: Editor of Negro Publication Visits Mississippi Town; The Fire Fiend Again: Heroic and Efficient Work of the Fire Department...; Murder at Fort Gibson; Sanitarium Burned; Ready for..... More
Bryn Mawr, PA: Oliver Ditson, 1938. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. 4pp; piano music. 12.25" x 9.25" The cover features an artist's conception of a Southwestern Indian Rain Dance. More
1816. Original manuscripts. Three documents. (1) Indiana Territory, Franklin County, 22 June 1816, signed at Brookville by John List, C.F.C.C. Written in sepia ink, 4.25" x 8", docketed on verso. (2) Indiana Territory, Franklin County, 20 August 1816, signed by John List, Clk.F.C.C. Written in sepia ink, 5" x 9.5"..... More
1813. Original manuscript. One page, folio, written in sepia ink. Sheriff's bond in the "penal sum of fifty six Dollars & seventy-five Cents with Interest thereon from the Twenty second day of March 1809 for the true payment whereof we do bind our selves and each of our heirs....This Third..... More
Chillicothe / Iowa City: Printed by Wm. C. Jones / Prairie Press, 1840 / 1950? Limited Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xiv, 28, (5), colophon; b&w folding map tipped to rear pastedown. Bound in green cloth, gilt spine lettering. 9.25" x 6" [Howes, U.S.IANA G22.]. More
Burlington, Iowa: Egbert, Fidlar, & Chambers, Printers, 1896. First Edition. Softcover. 51pp; frontispiece portrait, tissue guard; other illustrations from portraits and views, one full-page. Bound in printed wrappers; two chips from rear cover, else clean and tight. 9" x 5.75" More
Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1937. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. 575pp w/index. Gilt-stamped decorative green cloth. Small private bookplate on pastedown, prior owner's signature on endpaper, otherwise a clean, bright copy. 9.5" x 8.25" Laid into this volume is a four-page brochure, circa 1950, showing a steamboat and..... More
Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook, (1906). Second Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. pp: 189, (1) publisher's ad; 3 frontispiece portraits. Printed on pulp stock. Moderate wear along spine. 7" x 5" First published at Kansas City in 1899. [Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather, 1150. Howes, U.S.IANA J48: "Probably ghost-written by A.B. McDonald."]... More