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
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Co., [1923]. 1923 edition. Original Wrappers. pp: (41), (7) illustrated ads. Full-color map opens to 20" x 28", statistics printed on verso. Folds into tan card covers, printed in black; map detached from inside back cover with small loss to margin. 6.25" x...... More
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Co., [1917]. 1917 edition. Original Wrappers. 8pp ads for motor cars, hotels, railroads, &c. Full-color map opens to 20" x 28", statistics printed on verso. Folds into gray card covers, printed in black. 6.25" x 3.75" [Dated by automobile ad announcing 1917 model.]..... 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
Tsaile, Navajo Nation, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press, 1977. First Edition. Original Cloth. 335pp; text illustrated from photographs and drawings. Bound in pictorial green cloth, pictorial green endpapers. 9" x 5.75" "...contains personal, true accounts by 22 elderly Navajo men and women...." (foreword). More
Chicago: Chart Music, 1940. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 58pp; 4pp illus from photographs. A biography of Buck Jones inside the cover precedes the words and music to 30 songs, including: Big Bad Bill From Brimstone; I'm A-leavin' Cheyenne; Nestin' Time In Nevada; Range Ridin' Fool From Texas; Weary Cowboy;..... More
Des Moines, Iowa: Kenyon Co., Map Makers, (1916). 1916 edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. (26)pp text. Full-color map, folded inside card covers, opens to 15" x 20". Blue card covers, printed in black. Fresh, clean condition. 6.25" x 4" [WorldCat locates four holdings of this map: Princeton, Yale, U Missouri-KC, U...... More
Boston: Printed by Damrell & Moore, 1856. First Separate Edition. Softcover. 16pp. Printed self-wrappers. 9.25" x 5.75" A pro-slavery lawyer looks at Southern intent to extend slavery into the territories to balance the power of the Free States. [First published in the Philadelphia North American for July 31, 1856, and..... More
Denver, Colorado: Nolie Mumey, 1959. Limited Edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. 24pp; Nolie Mumey's commentary on leaf tipped at front; large, folding map at rear. Bound in decorative paper covers in facsimile of the original. In a simulated wood-grain shelf box, paper spine label. 7.25" x 4.75" This is #225 of..... More
Westport: Greenwood Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xxiv, (i) map, 587 with author and subject indices. Bound in blue cloth, red blocks and gilt lettering on spine and cover. 9.5" x 6" Contains 4,565 entries. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xxii, 294 with index, (6) adverts. Bound in green cloth, gilt spine lettering; cover spotted, spine sunned. Prior owner's label on front pastedown. Inscribed on the free-endpaper: "With love and best wishes from the grandson of the author." Tipped..... More
Coldwater, Kansas: Talisman Print Shop, Circa 1905. Original edition. One page. Indicated in pencil are three properties: one at $7,500; One at $6,500 with a house; one with three houses. Five mail boxes are pencilled in at the end of the road. 10.5" x 8.5" Comanche County was created in..... More
St. John Township, Stafford County, Kansas: Stafford Center School, 1901-1909. First Edition. Softcover. Three volumes, 8pp each. Nicely printed in sepia ink by Ohio Printing Co., New Philadelphia, Ohio and by Seibert Printing Co., Canal Dover, Ohio. One of the 1901 pupils, Maud Higgins, is listed as teacher in the..... More
Kansas City, Kansas: 1911. Original document. (2)pp, folio. Complaint filed by James M. Meeks, Assistant County Attorney. Signed by: R. McFarland, Clerk; C.S. Thomas, Deputy; and J.H. Brady, Deputy Sheriff. Docketed on verso, with pencil notation of $200 bail. Printed forms, filled in by hand. 14" x 8.5"... More
Kansas City, Kansas: 1920. Original document. One leaf, folio. Criminal docket form, accomplished by typewriter. In part: "One McClelland Farmer and one Jesse Owens with a deadly and dangerous weapon to-wit a revolving pistol ... did make an assault with intent ... to rob, steal, take, and carry away, one..... More
Chicago: Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1990. First edition thus. Hardcover. pp: lviii with prologue, 367 with index and list of Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait of author, colored map of wagon train route, 30 b&w plates. Bound in brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine and cover, top edges gilt. 6.75" x...... More
Portland, OR: American Music, 1939. First Edition. Softcover. 58pp. Contains words and music to "20 new songs, introduced by J.L. Frank's original Golden West Cowboys," including: My Madonna of the Trail; Rocky Mountain Trail; Swim, You Lazy Cattle, Swim; I'll Never Be A Saddle-tramp Again; It's Swing-time in the Valley;..... More
Berkeley: Univ of California, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. 179pp. Bound in printed tan wrappers; unopened signatures. 9.25" x 6" More
Hornellsville, NY: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers, 1902. Original manuscript. Full-Leather. pp: 45 + 97; engraving of locomotive. Bound in the original wallet-style case of cordovan leather; carried in a pocket and showing some signs of use. 6.5" x 4" Begins with 45 pages of printed text, "...giving the Proper Method..... More
Iola, Kansas: Laude Printing Co., 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. 647pp; frontispiece, full-page and text illustrations from photographs. Bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering; spine color faded. 8" x 5.5" [Adams, Rampaging Herd 1310.]. More
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xiii, 254, glossary, bibliography, compendium of songs; illus on title-page and in text by William Moyers. The author, a noted folksinger, traces the evolution of cowboy music in this annotated compilation of cowboy verse and song, including more than 50 original musical..... More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1932. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 15pp, sewn binding. 9.5" x 6.25" The Caddoan linguistic stock comprises four major languages: Pawnee, Wichita, Kitsai, and Caddo. More