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 about KANZAS AND THE CONSTITUTION. By "Cecil."
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 about MAP OF AND GUIDE TO THE KANSAS GOLD REGION.; By Dr. J.W. Reed. The Map embracing both...
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 about KANSAS HISTORY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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 about A HISTORY OF THE KANSAS CRUSADE: Its Friends and Its Foes. Introduction by Rev. Edward Everett...
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 about LANDS IN COMANCHE COUNTY, KANSAS:; Grid of 36 tracts, three marked as settled
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 about GROUP OF THREE ANNUAL SOUVENIRS, GIVEN TO PUPILS OF THE ONE-ROOM STAFFORD CENTER SCHOOL AT THE...
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 about ARREST WARRANT--PRACTICING MEDICINE WITHOUT A LICENSE:; State of Kansas, Plaintiff vs. J. Bazan, ...
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 about TYPEWRITTEN ARREST REPORT, STATE OF KANSAS VS. McCLELLAND FARMER AND JESSE OWNES, 16 DECEMBER 1920
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 about GOLDEN WEST COWBOYS' FOLIO OF SONGS OF THE GOLDEN WEST, No. 1
Berkeley: Univ of California, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. 179pp. Bound in printed tan wrappers; unopened signatures. 9.25" x 6" More about DIARY OF NELSON KINGSLEY, A CALIFORNIA ARGONAUT OF 1849.; Publications of the Academy of Pacific...
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 about KINNE'S IMPROVED ENGINEMEN'S GUIDE, TIME AND POCKET BOOK:; Showing a Practical Way of Becoming a...
Albuquerque, NM: Published by the author / Valliant Printing Co., (1950). First Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. pp: 45 + 45. Two titles, bound dos-a-dos as issued. Illustrated from photographs and drawings. Bound in pictorial yellow wrappers. 9" x 6" [Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather, 1267: "Section I of this unique book deals with Elfego Baca."]. More about EIGHT NOTCHES "LAWLESSNESS AND DISORDER, UNLIMITED," AND OTHER STORIES OF NUEVO MEJICO...
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 about KANSAS SHORTHORNS: A History of the Breed in the State from 1857 to 1920
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 about TEN THOUSAND GODDAM CATTLE:; A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story and Verse
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 about COMPOSITION OF THE CADDOAN LINGUISTIC STOCK:; Smithsonian Publication 3141
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1935. First Edition. Morocco & Boards. Unpaginated. Contains 12 separate title-pages, some in color, each followed by an excellent example of an author's manuscript and scholarly commentary by another author. The letters, which are tipped into the text, represent: George Sterling, Bret Harte, Frank... More about THE LETTERS OF WESTERN AUTHORS: A Series of Letters, Reproduced in Facsimile, of Twelve...
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: (v), 242. Bound in green cloth, gilt spine and cover lettering. 7.5" x 4.75" [Wright, American Fiction III-3340.]. More about SONS OF STRENGTH: A Romance of the Kansas Border Wars
Washington DC: GPO, 1905. First Separate Edition. Original Wrappers. 175pp. Bound in gray 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, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming during 1904. [Alliot, Bibliography of Arizona, 132.]. More about THE PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER IN 1904:; Extract from Mineral Resources of the United States,...
Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 1968. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xii, 595, bibliography, chord charts, index; illustrated chapter dividers. Contains words and music to nearly 300 songs, arranged by topics such as: Coming Round the Horn; When I Was A Miner; The Mormon Question; The Regular Army, O!; The... More about SONGS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Colorado Springs: Published by the author, 1956. Limited Edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. 19pp; frontispiece from photograph. This is Copy No. 149 of 200 copies, signed by John J. Lipsey. Gray wrappers, cover lettering in red. 8" x 6" "An account of the author's encounter with Diamond Jack, a Chicago gangster... More about ALIAS DIAMOND JACK
Wilmington, CA: Pacific Coast Borax, 1934. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 16pp; 2pp illus from photographs. Contains lyrics and music to six classic cowboy songs, including "Zebra Dun." Few smudges on cover. 12" x 9" More about COWBOY SONGS AS SUNG BY CHARLES MARSHALL THE "SINGING COWBOY" IN DEATH VALLEY DAYS
new York / Philadelphia: D. Appleton / Geo. S. Appleton, 1845. Second Edition, Revised. Hardcover. pp: 492 with index, (34) publisher's ads. Bound in modern red linen, printed paper spine label. 7.75" x 4.5" More about THE FARMER'S AND EMIGRANT'S HAND-BOOK: BEING A FULL AND COMPLETE GUIDE FOR THE FARMER AND THE...
San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, (1923). First Edition. Original Cloth. 212pp; 10 plates from photographs (portraits and views). Chapters include: The Journey to California in 1849; Pioneer Life of San Francisco; Virginia City and the Comstock; &c. Bound in red cloth, gilt lettering on cover and spine; spine gilt dulled with... More about FROM '49 TO '88 IN CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA: Chapters from the Life of George Thomas Marye, A...
Chicago: M.M. Cole, 1935. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 64pp; 4pp illus from action photos of Ken Maynard and his horse "Tarzan," with other photos, including his Hollywood home, inside the back cover. Contains words and music to 25 cowboy songs (two from Ken's movies), including: Wheels Of Destiny; The... More about KEN MAYNARD'S SONGS OF THE TRAILS:; 25 Sensational Songs
NY: Cadmus Book Shop, 1916. Limited Edition. Original Wrappers. Limited to 250 copies. 26pp. Sewn, decorative wrappers; small chip from top of cover and first leaf. 9" x 5.75" [This 1916 reprint is a Howes, U.S.iana "aa" title, while the 1851 edition is one of only seven known and a Howes "e" title. Decker 43:248.]. More about JOURNAL OF THE SUFFERINGS AND HARDSHIPS OF CAPT. PARKER H. FRENCH'S OVERLAND EXPEDITION TO...