Portland, OR: American Music, 1941. First Edition. Softcover. 46pp; two illus from photographs. Contains words and music to 20 songs written and sung by Ernest Tubb, including: I'll Get Along Somehow; Blue-eyed Elaine; Our Love Yodel; Swell San Angelo; Walking the Floor over You; and 15 more. Pictorial covers. 12"..... More
NY: Ernest Tubb Music, 1953. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 40pp; 14pp illustrations from photographs. Contains lyrics, music, chord symbols and frames to 15 songs performed by Ernest Tubb. Titles include: I Need Attention Bad; She Slipped Out On Me; Dear Judge; My Portigue Gal; Stand By Me; and 10..... More
NY: Ernest Tubb Music, 1953. First Edition. Pictorial cover. 40pp; 14 illus from photographs. Contains words, music, guitar chords and frames for 15 songs performed by Ernest Tubb, including: Don't Trifle on Your Sweetheart; Dear Judge; My Portugal Gal; Stand By Me; and 11 more. 12" x 9" More
Omaha: Union Pacific Railroad, 1903. Revised Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 30pp; illus from photographs, maps. 9" x 8" A centerspread map shows Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line, Oregon RR & Nav. Co., Southern Pacific, and Connections. More
Los Angeles: Westerners, Los Angeles Corral, 1949. First edition thus. Pictorial Paper Covers. (8)pp; illus with silhouettes. Keepsake No. 3, Los Angeles Corral of The Westerners. 8.5" x 5.5" First published at Philadelphia in 1878 by Upham, a self-described '49-er. More
NY: Scribners, 1924. Second Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xv, 445 Index; 51 illus from photographs, maps. This history of early Utah has chapters on the Native Americans, fur traders, stagecoach, railroads, Mormons, etc. 7.5" x 5" [Flake, Mormon Bibliography, 10101.]. More
Salt Lake City, Utah: Hotel Greeters, 1927. First Edition. Original Wraps. 32pp; illus from photographs, double-page map; former owner's name on cover. Lists shops and hotels, and describes Pocatello, Utah Copper Mine, Salt Lake City, etc. 7.75" x 5.25" More
Salt Lake City: Utah Land Investment & Trust Ass'n, 1889. Original document. Issued to F.N. Shelton, Certificate No. 99, for one share of the assets of Series B, to be paid in 12 assessments of 10 dollars each. Par value of each share, $120. Engraved, decorated border, printed in blue..... More
St. Paul, Minnesota: F. Jay Haynes, circa 1900. Original edition. Boxed. Complete deck of 52 playing cards, plus Joker, in a worn box meant for Alaska Souvenir Playing Cards, published by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco, 1900. Each card has a different duo-tone view of a western sight with captions;..... More
London / NY: A&C Black / William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First US Edition. Hardcover. pp: xi, (116) with index; 8 color plates from photographs, foldout map at back. Bound in blue cloth, dark-blue lettering. 7.75" x 5.25" Vernon and a friend drove a Benz Touring Car from New York, westward..... More
San Francisco: John Howell--Books, 1982. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. pp: xx, 745 with index, colophon; frontispiece and 32 full-page illustrations from title-pages. Bound in red buckram, gilt lettering on spine. 10.5" x 6.75" More
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1909. 1909 edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. pp: 34. (4) ads. Tipped in is a colored map, opening to 21" x 28", folded into brown card covers printed in black. 6.5" x 4" [Decker 24:287--1892 edition.]. More
Rossland, British Columbia: Oroville Mines, 1902. First Edition. Softcover. 8pp, oblong quarto, printed in dark-red ink; 8 views from photographs showing scenes at the mines. Two vertical folds for mailing. 9" x 11.75". Laid in is a printed "Strong Endorsement" by Canadian journalist Percy F. Godenrath. [This vintage gold &..... More
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: Mesa Verde Museum, (1955). First Edition. Original Wrappers. pp: v, 188; frontispiece and 16pp illus from photographs. Bound in pictorial stiff wrappers. Prior owner's blind-stamp on free endpaper. 9" x 6" More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. pp: 90, colophon; vignette on title-page, 12 full-page illustrations. Bound in black cloth and illustrated brown boards, gilt lettering on spine, brown endpapers. 9.5" x 6" One of 300 copies printed by Richard J. Hoffman. Contains 182 annotated entries... More
s.l. Published by the author, 1934. First Edition. Original stiff wrappers. 98pp; full-length frontis portrait of Werner in his Cavalry uniform, 1884. 8.25" x 5.5" This is Private Werner's account of his service during the Modoc War, operations in Montana, &c. [Howes, USiana W259. Storm, Graff Collection 4592.]... More
Saint Paul, Minnesota: Pioneer Press, 1889. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: x, 596 with index, errata leaf; engraved frontispiece portrait of Brev. Major-General Sibley in uniform. Bound in black cloth, gilt spine rules and lettering; floral-pattern endpapers. 9" x 5.75" [Eberstadt 107:392--"Early days and life among the Indians in Wisconsin..... More
NY: Southern Music, 1942. Copyright 1941. Pictorial Cover. 4pp, words and music, in part: "Memories, that linger in my heart, Memories that make my heart grow cold, But some day they'll live again sweetheart...." 12" x 9" Featured by Roy Rogers, with his picture inset on the cowboy-motif cover... More
NY: Pacific Coast Borax, 1934. First Edition. Original Wraps. 16pp; centerspread illus from photographs. Contains historical notes, words and music to six cowboy songs as sung on the "Death Valley Days" radio program, including: The Little Old Sod Shanty; Zebra Dun; The Tenderfoot; and three more. 12" x 9" The..... More
Portland, OR: Crystal Ballroom, 1998. First Edition. This concert poster, printed in red on tan stock, features a sketch from a group-photo of Big Sandy and his Boys. 17" x 11" Big Sandy (Robert Williams) and the Fly-Rite Trio, formed in 1988, became Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys in..... More
Centennial, WY: Snowy Range Lodge, circa 1937. Original edition. Vintage card with photos on both sides, showing Snowy Range Lodge and a mountain lake. Handwritten comments: "Was a sight to see - Was here - Snow - and I put my hands & feet in it." 3.5" x 5.5" Snowy..... More
Yellowstone Park, Wyoming: Haynes, Inc., 1948. Full deck of 52 playing cards, plus Joker with a view of a bear up a tree. The pictorial card-backs are printed in gilt and colors, displaying a view of Old Faithful. Includes a printed card for International Contract Bridge Score, dated Oct. 1..... More