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Reno: Univ of Nevada Press, 1981 & 1991. First Editions. Hardcover. Two volumes. pp: (iii), 421 with index; (v), 403 with indices. First volume bound in blue cloth, second one bound in brown cloth, both with gilt spine lettering and printed dust wrappers. 10.25" x 7" The first volume contains..... More
Washington DC: USGPO, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. 3pp, removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. "Relates to the consolidation of the Mescalero and Jicarilla Agencies and the civilization of the Indians thereof....and for the removal, with their consent, of the Mescalero Apache Indians to the Jicarilla Reservation..... More
Norman: U Oklahoma Press, 1950. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xvii, 261 with index; 84 illustrations from photographs, four full-page maps. Bound in yellow cloth, green spine lettering; in a soiled, price-clipped dust wrapper. 9.25" x 6" Regards the Hopi Indians of the Arizona Mesa lands... More
San Francisco: James H. Barry, 1887. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 57pp. Printed salmon wrappers; small abrasion at foot of spine. 7.25" x 5" First Edition, with title-page date of 1887 and cover date of 1890. Howes, US-iana II: O87. The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a popular ad hoc..... More
New York: R.R. Bowker for the Bibliographical Society of America, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xvii, 267 with index. Bound in brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. 9.25" x 6" Catalogues 797 titles, of which "no copies of 102 have been found despite a wide search for them." More
Norman, Oklahoma: Univ of Oklahoma Press, (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xviii, 400 with index; 28 illustrations of title-pages. Bound in brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, dust wrapper with slight edge wear. 9.5" x 6.25" Annotated bibliography of printed materials pertaining to Native Americans, especially the Five Civilized Tribes..... More
Oklahoma City: J. Frank Rice, 1906. Original document. Real-photo postcard, showing the main street of Oklahoma City. Small, pencilled message in lower margin: "11/13/1906 - Am just living here / Papa." Addressed on the verso to Miss Mildred Kalmus, Horton, Kansas, and postmarked Oklahoma, Nov 17, with a 13-star flag..... More
1906. First Edition. 2pp, removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. Regarding a bill "to open for settlement 505,000 acres of land in the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache reservations...." Involves some 480,000 acres of land. 9" x 5.75" More
1908. Black-and-white image, 5" x 8", on a gray photo-mount. Shown are 22 boys and girls in mostly homemade clothes. Off to the side is a large man wearing a double-breasted suit. Two of the boys hold small slates on which is written: "Pleasant Valley, Dist. no 30. J.C. Barney..... More
Portland: Chamber of Commerce, 1911. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. pp: 32 + vii full-page colored views and map on heavy stock. 10.75" x 8.5" Here is a memento of the days when Oregon was courting settlers--"the homeseeker, the manufacturer, or the investor"--describing Oregon as "the last West." Illustrated throughout..... More
(Washington): Ritchie & Heiss, printers, 1845. First Edition. Removed. 5pp, drop-title, neatly removed from a nonce volume; faint trace of foxing. 8.75" x 5.5" Requests that the lands of the Willamette Valley be surveyed, and that a channel of water egress be established from the interior of the country to..... More
(Washington): Blair & Rives, Printers, 1840. First Edition. Removed. 3pp, drop-title, neatly removed from a nonce volume. 9" x 5.5" The extended title says it all. Signed in type by 44 male residents of Indiana, meaning to attract settlers to the Oregon Territory and to ease the journey. [Eberstadt 138:581.]..... More
Washington DC: Tippin & Streeper, printers, 1848. First Edition. Softcover. 26pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 9" x 5.5" Abernethy, the Governor of Oregon Territory, and others write here from Oregon City, describing fatal encounters with the local Indians, including the recent massacre..... More
(Washington): Blair & Rives, printers, 1840. First Edition. Removed. 4pp, drop-title, neatly removed from a nonce volume. 9" x 5.75" Signed by some 150 residents of the State of Missouri, stating: "That many of us entertain a desire to emigrate to the Territory of Oregon, provided the obstacles which now..... More
Victoria, BC: Gray Line, 1946. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 96pp; illustrated throughout from photographic views, pictorial ads featuring local hotels, restaurants and other businesses in Portland and Seattle. Contains a driving guide, with historical milestones. Color ad for the Streamliner Kalakala, Seattle to Victoria, on back cover. 8" x...... More
Andover [MA]: Warren F. Draper, 1850. First Separate Edition. Softcover. pp: 26, (2). Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5" Park asserts that more colleges and professional schools "are needed, especially in our Western States, to resist the encroachments of foreigners upon..... More
Trenton, N.J. MacCrellish & Quigley, 1894. First Edition. Original Cloth. 259pp; 24 illustrations, some full-page, some vignettes. The frontispiece is from a photograph of the 11 male and female travelers at Muir Glacier. Red cloth, gilt lettering, patterned endpapers. 7.5" x 5.25" "Edward S. Parkinson was a New Jersey newspaperman..... More
Worcester, MA: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1896. First book edition. Original Wraps. 35pp; 3 full-page maps, 2 text maps. First published in the AAS Proceedings, April 1896. 10.25" x 6.25" More
Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1937. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. 575pp w/index. Gilt-stamped decorative green cloth. Tiny gift inscription on pastedown, dated 1937; top of rear joint neatly mended; otherwise a clean, bright copy. 9.5" x 8.25" Printed at The Torch Press. [Howes, USiana P263 (aa). Decker 46:178.]..... More
Washington DC: (GPO), 1855. First Edition. Removed. 7pp, drop-title, edges uncut; removed from nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 9.5" x 6" Includes a 2-1/2-page printed letter, reporting military reconnaissance on locations and facilities of various tribes in Wyoming, signed by Lt. Col. W. Hoffman, commanding Fort Laramie... More
Cincinnati: Printed at the Western Book Concern, 1857. First Edition. Cloth. 431pp; 4 plates of views. Some scattered foxing, affecting one plate. Rebound in grained, brown cloth; decorative cloth from the original spine and sides, mounted. Bookbinder's gilt label on rear pastedown. 8" x 5" [Howes, U,S.IANA P390.]... More
Berkeley: Univ of California, 1909. First Edition. Softcover. 14pp; frontispiece showing Old Issue and New Issue certificates. Bound in printed tan wrappers. 9.25" x 6" More
Van Nuys, California: J.E. Reynolds, Bookseller, (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xi, 29, colophon; title-page vignette and four full-page drawings by Tom Lea, tailpiece. Bound in purple cloth and tan boards, gilt lettering on spine, price-clipped dust wrapper with a large Tom Lea illustration on the front. 10" x 6.5"..... More
Albany: Printed by Hoffman and White, 1833. Third Edition, Revised. Full Leather. 400pp; folding frontispiece and folding map of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers. Old sheep, expertly rebacked with gilt spine rules and the original red leather label; endbands rolled in period style. 8.5" x 5.25" [Howes, USiana P589. Sabin..... More
New Haven: William Reese Co., 1989. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated, author and title indices. Bound in black and brown boards, gilt lettering on spine, black endpapers, illustrated dust wrapper. 10.25" x 7.25" Includes a preface by Bill Reese, and 120 well-annotated entries. More