Helena, M.T. Helena Steam Power & Lighting Co., 1885. Original document. Certifies that F.H. Kleinschmidt owns 15 shares of the Comany's capital stock. Dated at Helena, Montana Territory, 26 Dec 1885. Signed by Moses Morris, President, and Herman Gans, Secretary. Engraved certificate with gilt-stamped decorative borders, sphinx & pyramid logo..... More
Washington DC: US Senate, 48th Congress, 1885. First Edition. Printed self-wraps. 45pp. Spine archivally reinforced. 9" x 5.75" Identifies 329 leases of land on the Crow reservation, naming each of the Native Americans involved: Long Otter, Alligator, Shell on the Neck, Pretty Gutts, Crazy Sister-in-law, Bear in the Water, Fire..... More
Leipsic / NY: Baedeker / Scribner's, 1899. Second Revised Edition. Original Cloth. pp: c, 579 with index; complete with 19 maps in color (some folded) and 24 plans (some folded). Red cloth, gilt lettering. Prior owner's name and 1902 date on front endpaper. Spine expertly mended with original backstrip laid..... More
Denver, Colorado: Forward Mining Development Co., (1905). First Edition. Original Wrappers. (12)pp. Bound in decorated white wrappers. On the back cover is a pink-tinted photographic view of "The Famous Combination Mine and Mill at Goldfield." 9.25" x 4" With a capital stock of $500,000, three members of the Patrick family..... More
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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
Rawhide, Nevada: N.E. Johnson, 1908 [1970s]. Softcover. pp: (1) text, (41) views from photographs with captions, (1) portrait of Ned E. Johnson (photographer), folding panorama bound in at back. The one-page text, "Rawhide," is by F.W. Clark, Pacific Coast Agent. Bound in pictorial green wrappers. Private bookplate inside cover, otherwise..... 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
Albuquerque: Univ of New Mexico Press, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. pp: vi, (i), outline map, 306 with index. Bound in brown cloth, blue lettering on spine, printed dust wrapper. 9.5" x 6.25" Noted as the first history of frontier journalism in the Territory of New Mexico. Includes a checklist of..... More
[David Ramsay], [1793]. First Edition. Folded as issued, with scattered foxing, opens to 7.5" x 9" + margins. Removed some time ago, probably from Neele's New Gazetteer, or Modern Geographical Index. At the foot of the page is printed, Geographical Index, with the figure 6 in the top corner. Identifies..... 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
Manchester, N.H. Press of John B. Clarke, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. 203pp; frontispiece view of Mount Hood. Bound in brown cloth, decorated in black and gilt. 7.5" x 4.75" [Joyce, Personal Writings by Women, 3789.] Contents [taken from WorldCat]: Chapter I. First notes --At Chicago --Chapter II. From Chicago to..... More
New York: Irving Berlin, 1946. First Editions. Softcover. 6pp per folio. The seven songs are: Doin' What Comes Natur'lly; I Got Lost in His Arms; I Got the Sun in the Morning; The Girl That I Marry; There's No Business Like Show Business; They Say It's Wonderful; Who Do You..... 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
Ryan, Oklahoma: 1909. Original document. Folio, printed form, accomplished by hand. Awards to John M. Stephens a land grant in the town of Ryan, Oklahoma, formerly Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, lot 16 in block 61, for a $30 deposit made 7 March 1902. Signed by: Green McCurtain, Principal Chief of..... 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
San Francisco: Southern Pacific Co., 1900. First Edition. Broadsheet, folded as issued, opens to 21" x 28". Map printed in terracotta and green. Verso is filled with text, beginning: "How to Reach Western Oregon -- Take any route to New Orleans, El Paso or Ogden, and thence the Southern Pacific..... 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
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Co., (1910). 1910 edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. pp: 27, (3) ads. Full-color map opens to 20" x 28". Folds into tan card covers, printed in black. 6.5" x 4" [OCLC locates two holdings of a 1913 edition of this map, not this 1910..... More
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1923. 1923 edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. pp: 37, (1), (10) ads; color map, 19" x 25", with a green and black highway map on the verso. Folds into tan card covers, printed in black; two small chips from covers. 6.5" x 4" [WorldCat does not..... More
Eugene, Oregon: Univ of Oregon Books, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. 305pp with index; 16pp illustrations on pale-green stock. Bound in green and black pictorial cloth, illustrated orange endpapers, pictorial dust wrapper. 10.25" x 6.75" Contains 1,458 entries, some fully annotated. Dedicated to the memory of Douglas C. McMurtrie... More
Ironside, Oregon: Rankin Crow, 1973. Third printing. Hardcover. 242pp; frontispiece and 180+ illustrations from photographs. Bound in gray cloth, red lettering on spine and cover, pictorial dust wrapper with one small chip. 9.25" x 6" Inscribed, "With my very best wishes / Rankin Crow / Vale, Ore. 97918."... More