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
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
NY: Bob Miller, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. 34 pages; full-page photo-portrait of Texas Jim. Contains his one-page autobiography as well as words and music to 14 songs, including: Birmingham Woman; Miz O'Reilly's Daughter; Texas Song; When the U.S. Band Plays Dixie in Berlin; and ten more. In the original pictorial..... More
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1940. Original edition. Printed self-wraps. 61pp; centerfold map. Original, single fold to pocket size, opens to 9" x 8". First leaf worn along fold. More
Chicago: Santa Fe Railroad Lines, 1935. Second Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 78pp; ten pages of illustrations from photographs, maps. Comprises a place-name history of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico with information on the towns and villages along the Santa Fe Railway Line. Spine roughened. 9" x 8" [Not seen in..... More
Portland, Oregon: Champoeg Press, 1957. Hardcover. 76pp w/index; tipped frontispiece portrait of Father Joseph Giorda, S.J., rubricated title-page and chapter titles, one plate from a photograph, several other illustrations. Bound in pictorial red cloth, gilt spine title. 10" x 6.5" One of only 804 copies, designed and printed by Lawton..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, (1944). First Edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. 24pp. Inside the cover is the printed bookplate of William J. Rush, with a verse threatening the gallows for anyone who steals this book. Yellow wrappers, cover title in black. 8.5" x 5.25" [Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather, 1981.]... More
Evanston, Illinois: Branding Iron Press, 1952. Limited Edition. Cloth-backed boards. pp: xiii, 109 with index, colophon; two portraits from photographs, map, vignettes. Bound in red cloth and tan boards, endpapers illustrated from brands. 9.25" x 6". This is #411 of 750 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed to George M. Johnson, signed..... More