When Grass Was King Contributions to the Western Range Cattle Industry by Maurice Frink, W Turrentine Jackson, Agnes Wright Spring

 
Author Name    Maurice Frink, W Turrentine Jackson, Agnes Wright Spring 
 
Title   When Grass Was King Contributions to the Western Range Cattle Industry

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Type   Book

Edition   Limited

Publisher    University of Colorado Press 1956

Inscription   Signed by Author(s)

Seller ID   016646

Hardcover, green cloth boards, no DJ, has mylar cover. University of Colorado Press, 1956, limited edition #1125 of 1500. Signed by authors Frink and Spring. In near fine condition, light wear on corners and edges of cover, minor staining to endpapers at hinge (from old glue?), back endpaper has a bookplate pasted in, no owner's name. Interior is clean and bright. An overview history of the cattle industry in the Old West of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Dakota Territory, Montana, and Idaho. Lincoln County War merits one long paragraph, The Johnson County War is covered in two short paragraphs.

OLD  WEST,  HISTORY,  CATTLE  DRIVES,  CATTLEMEN,  COWBOYS,  GRASSLANDS 

Price = 150.00 USD

Link:  When Grass Was King

Bake and Make Amazing Cakes by Elizabeth MacLeod

 
Author Name    MacLeod, Elizabeth 
 
Title   Bake and Make Amazing Cakes

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Type   Book

Edition   First Edition

Publisher   Tonawanda, New York, U.S.A. Kids Can Pr 2001

ISBN Number    1550748483 / 9781550748482 

Seller ID   018313

Softcover. Near fine. From the Kids Can Do It series. Make: sweet heart, terrific tiger, lucky rainbow, bright butterfly, frothy mugcakes, cuddly cat, cozy house, haunted castle, Christmas tree, spring flowers, shining star, Easter bunny, rolling bus, jack-o-lantern, teddy bear, delicious burger, creeping caterpillar, sun hat, scary dinosaur.

CAKE  BAKING  COOKING  COURSES  DISHES 

Price = 8.00 USD

Link:  Amazing Cakes

Awaiting Spring Leaflet DC-5 by Linda Myers

 
Author Name    Linda Myers 
 
Title   Awaiting Spring Leaflet DC-5

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Very Good

Type   Book

Publisher    Art of Cross Stitch 1988

Seller ID   019298

Craft booklet. Very good condition, light cover wear, private library stamp embossed on lower right corner of cover. An old vacant house sadly waiting in the snow for spring to come. Includes a print of the watercolor that could be framed.

WINTER  SCENE

Price = 8.00 USD

Link:  Awaiting Spring

Holiday Friends by Lee Lindeman

 
Author Name    Lee Lindeman 
 
Title   Holiday Friends

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Good

Type   Book

Publisher    The Needlecraft Shop 2002

Seller ID   011668

Craft booklet. Good condition, heavy cover wear. 8 holidays spring to life with 7 mesh plastic canvas and worsted weight yarn. Cute designs!

PLASTIC  CANVAS

Price = 6.00 USD

Link:  Holiday Friends

Candlewick Design Book by Kathleen Taylor

 
Author Name    Kathleen Taylor 
 
Title   Candlewick Design Book

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Very Good

Type   Book

Publisher    B Blumenthal & Co 1982

Seller ID   017041

Craft booklet. B Blumenthal & Co, 1982. In very good condition. Tulip, dove, fruit basket, dogwood, acorns, spring flowers, peony, apple, bouquet, heart border, tulip border, floral sprays, quilt circle, pears.

CANDLEWICKING 

Price = 10.00 USD

Link:  Candlewick

Basket Garden by Mary Hickey

 Author Name    Hickey, Mary; McGehee, Liz (editor) 
 

Title   Basket Garden

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Near fine

Type   Book

Edition   First Edition

Publisher   Woodinville, Washington, U.S.A. Martingale & Co Inc 1989

ISBN Number    0943574617 / 9780943574615 

Seller ID   018333

Softcover. Near fine condition, minor edgewear. Book 4 in Collector Series. Applique: Paper-Patch Applique, Freezer-Paper Applique, Interfaced Applique, Needle-Turn Applique, Bias Bar Handles and Stems, Blind Stitch. Heirloom Basket Sampler. Basket Block Patterns: Cherry Basket, Ribbon Basket, Farm Basket, County Fair Basket, Stamp Basket, Market Basket, Harvest Basket, Garden Basket, Victorian Basket, Peony Basket, Tulip Basket, Daffodil Basket. Quilt Patterns: Swinging on the Garden Gate, Bandana Baskets, Tear Along the Dotted Line, Gift Baskets, Spring Baskets.

QUILT  QUILTS  QUILTING 

Price = 20.00 USD

Link:   Basket Garden

Pashka of Bear Ravine by Grigori Fedoseyev

Author Name    Grigori Fedoseyev 
 
Title   Pashka of Bear Ravine

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   Very Good

Type   Book

Seller ID   007501

Hardcover, no DJ, ex-library. Random House, first American edition. In very good condition, edges bumped, usual library markings. Illustrations by Joan Berg Victor. Siberia in spring and an old man and a boy guide a young geologist into the taiga - the vast, swampy pine forest region. Pashka and Guryanich love the wild, untamed land and its people.

RUSSIA,  SIBERIA 

Price = 12.00 USD

Link:  Pashka

Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas by Gary Fagan

 
Author Name    Gary Fagan 
 
Title   Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Type   Book

Edition   First Edition

Publisher    Tundra Books 2009

ISBN Number    0887768954 / 9780887768958 

Illustrator   Dusan Petricic

Seller ID   020778

Hardcover with pictorial boards, no DJ. Near fine condition. Jacob's family is moving to Canada from Europe, so they take the SS Spring-a-Leak to journey across the ocean. But something is wrong aboard the SS Spring-a-Leak... Based on the character created by Mordecai Richler.

Humorous  Mystery  Jacob  Two-Two 

Price = 8.00 USD

Link:  Jacob Two-Two

Folk Festivals and the Foreign Community by Dorothy Gladys Spicer

 
Author Name    Dorothy Gladys Spicer 
 
Title   Folk Festivals and the Foreign Community

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   Very Good

Jacket Condition   Fair

Type   Book

Edition   First Edition

Publisher    The Womans Press 1923

Seller ID   013857

Hardcover. The Womans Press, 1923, first. In very good condition, pages yellowing. DJ is fair, chips and discoloration. Four seasonal folk festivals: The Triumph of Spring, St. John's Eve, The Feast of the Ingathering, and Following the Star.

 

Price = 40.00 USD

Link:  Folk Festivals

A Vast Amount of Trouble: A History of the Spring Creek Raid by John W Davis

 
Author Name    Davis, John W. 
 
Title   A Vast Amount of Trouble: A History of the Spring Creek Raid

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   As New

Type   Book

Edition   First Edition

Publisher   Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Univ Pr of Colorado 1993

ISBN Number    0870813102 / 9780870813108 

Seller ID   017928

Hardcover. As new. The story begins in late March, 1909, when five sheepmen headed east from Worland, Wyoming, driving 5,000 head of sheep. A few days later the men and their sheep camped on the banks of Spring Creek, where they thought they had safely brought the herd across the cattlemen's deadline, beyond which sheep were forbidden. That evening, however, the camp was raided by seven cowboys, and three of the sheepmen were brutally murdered.

COLORADO  HISTORY  UNITED  STATES  STATE 

Price = 35.00 USD

Link:  Spring Creek Raid

Cross Stitch An American Heritage

 
Author Name    Charted Designers of America 
 
Title   Cross Stitch An American Heritage

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Very Good

Type   Book

Publisher    CDA

Seller ID   015614

Craft booklet. In very good condition. Craft booklet. Very good condition. A 24 Design CDA Salute to the "Land of Liberty." Includes: God Bless Us Everyone, Stars Leaves and Currants, Quilts Mom and Apple Pie, Mama's Pride, Welcome Basket, Character, School Days, Round-Lobed Hepatica, Summer Memories, Legacy in Design, Victorian Vase, Home is Where They Love You, Ewe and Me Me and Ewe, All American Coook, American Patchwork, The Rose, A Gal's Favorite Sport, The Four-Poster, The Bear and the Bees, Spring Feeding, Botanical Print, An All American Eagle, Wondering, Sugarin' Time.

CROSS  STITCH 

Price = 20.00 USD

Link:  Cross Stitch

When Will It Be Spring? by Catherine Walters

Author Name    Catherine Walters 
 
Title   When Will It Be Spring?

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Type   Book

Publisher    Scholastic 1999

ISBN Number    0439064813 / 9780439064811 

Seller ID   018206

Softcover. Near fine. It's time to hibernate, but he wants spring to come quickly, he doesn't feel like sleeping. After several false alarms, spring finally arrives. But when Mom gets up, she can't see her son - he's cuddled up in grass, sleeping.

BEARS  HIBERNATION

Price = 8.00 USD

Link:  When Will It Be Spring?

Decorative Crochet July 1990 No 16

Title   Decorative Crochet July 1990 No 16

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Good

Type   Book

Publisher    Les Editions De Saxe 1990

Seller ID   020729

Magazine. Good condition, light creasing at top of magazine pages by spine. Seashells by the seashore, the checkerboard, a starfish original, grand tour, pineapple go-round, curtains and mat with blooms, singles placemat and coaster, harbinger of spring, pair of bunnies, floral go-round, grape harvest, butterfly and blossom, great daisy, eight-part harmony, stellar attraction, pineapple special, picking pears, exotic birds, the biggest catch, nice and easy, sunburst, interplay, also starring, roses all over, beautiful baroque, pentamat, rhapsody in white, pineapple special, ripening wheat.

Crochet  Crocheting 

Price = 10.00 USD

Link:  Decorative Crochet
 

Nurse Lugton's Curtain by Virginia Woolf

 
Author Name    Woolf, Virginia 
 
Title   Nurse Lugton's Curtain

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   Very Good

Type   Book

Edition   First Edition

Publisher   Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. Harcourt Childrens Books 1991

ISBN Number    0152005455 / 9780152005450 

Illustrator   Julie Vivas

Seller ID   016227

Oversized hardcover. Harcourt Children's Books, first edition, 1991. In very good condition, bottom of boards show wear. This story was originallly found among the pages of Virginia Woolf's manuscript for her well-known novel Mrs. Dalloway and was probably written in the fall of 1924, but was not actually published until 1965. Cute story and great illustrations!

CHILDREN  FICTION  ANIMALS  JUVENILE 

Price = 15.00 USD

Link:  Nurse Lugton's Curtain

Letters on an Elk Hunt by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Author Name    Stewart, Elinore Pruitt 
 
Title   Letters on an Elk Hunt

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Very Good

Type   Book

Publisher   Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. Univ of Nebraska Pr 1980

ISBN Number    0803291124 / 9780803291126 

Seller ID   016772

Trade paperback. University of Nebraska Press, 1980, fourth printing. In very good condition, minor edgewear. Southwestern Wyoming, the fall of 1914, and her letters to old friends and new acquaintances, telling about the land and the beauty she has found in it.

WESTERN  HISTORY,  AMERICAN  WYOMING,  PIONEERS 

Price = 15.00 USD

Link:  Letters

Death in the Air by Shane Peacock

 Author Name    Shane Peacock 
 

Title   Death in the Air

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   As New

Type   Book

Edition   First Edition

Publisher    Tundra Books 2008

ISBN Number    0887768512 / 9780887768514 

Seller ID   018913

Hardcover. As new. He witnesses a trapeze artist's fall - the man almost falls at his feet. But then he notices that the rope has been cut. This was no accident!

BOY  SHERLOCK  HOLMES  MYSTERY 

Price = 18.00 USD

Link:  Death in the Air

The Scouting Expeditions of McCullough's Texas Rangers by Samuel C Reid Jr

 
Author Name    Samuel C Reid Jr 
 
Title   The Scouting Expeditions of McCullough's Texas Rangers

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Type   Book

Publisher   Austin, Texas, U.S.A. The Steck Company 1935

Seller ID   020961

Hardcover, no DJ. Near fine condition, pages lightly toning, spine ends lightly bumped, a few light color spots on spine and light scuffing on back board. A facsimile reproduction of the original 1847 edition. Subtitle: Or, The Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico 1846 Including Skirmishes with the Mexicans and an Accurate Detail of the Storming of Monterey Also the Daring Scouts at Buena Vista Together with Anecdotes, Incidents, Descriptions of Country, and Sketches of the Lives of the Celebrated Partisan Chiefs Hay, McCullock, and Walker.

Texas  Rangers  Army  War  Mexico  Monterey  Buena  Vista 

Price = 100.00 USD

Link:  McCullough's Texas Rangers

The Nightwood by Robin Muller

 
Author Name    Muller, Robin 
 
Title   The Nightwood

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Jacket Condition   Near Fine

Type   Book

Edition   1st Edition

Publisher   Toronto, ON, Canada Tundra Books, Incorporated/Livres Toundra, Incorporated 2010

ISBN Number    1770492097 / 9781770492097 

Seller ID   021420

Picture book. Beware of the elves and their Queen. She doesn't give up mortals who fall under her spell...

Fantasy,  Fairy  Tale 

Price = 15.00 USD

Link:  The Nightwood

Retreat to the Bear Paw by Marian T. Place

 
Author Name    Marian T. Place 
 
Title   Retreat to the Bear Paw

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   Good

Type   Book

Seller ID   009866

Hardcover, ex-library. Four Winds Press, second printing, 1970. In good condition, usual library markings. The summer and fall of 1877 when a band of 750 Nez Perce men, women, and children made an incredible 1700-mile retreat from their homes in eastern Oregon to the Bear Paw Mountains of Montana.

NEZ  PERCE,  INDIANS,  INDIAN  WARS 

Price = 18.00 USD

Link:  Retreat to the Bear Paw

Autumn at Sinking Creek by Linda Myers

 

Author Name    Linda Myers 
 
Title   Autumn at Sinking Creek

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Very Good

Type   Book
 
Seller ID   014579

Craft booklet. Art of Cross Stitch, 1984. In very good condition, store stamp, private library stamp embossed on front cover. Design based on the limited edition, signed and numbered series of 500 watercolor prints by Myers. Lovely fall picture.

CROSS  STITCH 

Price = 8.00 USD

Link:  Autumn at Sinking Creek

Dusk Before the Dawn by Larry Ketchersid

Author Name    Larry Ketchersid 
 
Title   Dusk Before the Dawn

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Type   Book

ISBN Number    0741430169 / 9780741430168

Seller ID   015802

Trade paperback. Infinity Publishing, 2006. In near fine condition, back cover top left corner creased. An American educated Mayan sits atop a Temple in Tikal National Park, waiting. A father helplessly watches his family fall into some kind of sleep, or trance.

 

Price = 10.00 USD

Link:  Dusk Before the Dawn

Hole in the Sky: A Memoir by William Kittredge

 
Author Name    Kittredge, William 
 
Title   Hole in the Sky: A Memoir

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Type   Book

Edition   First Edition

Publisher   Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A. Alfred a Knopf Inc 1992

ISBN Number    0679411666 / 9780679411666

Seller ID   016765

Hardcover. Alfred A Knopf, 1992, stated first edition. In near fine condition, name and date on front endpapers. The story of a great pioneer family's decline and fall, and of a childhood dream that turned into an adulthood of dislocation, the end of a way of life. But it is also the story of Kittredge's account of coming to terms with this.

WESTERN  HISTORY,  AMERICAN  HISTORY 

Price = 25.00 USD

Link:  Hole in the Sky

Worth Preserving by Kathleen Foster

Author Name    Kathleen Foster 
 

Title   Worth Preserving

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Good

Type   Book

Seller ID   011404

Craft booklet. MSP, 1994. In good condition, front cover, shows some wear and has a 3" slice from a razor knife, interior is clean and bright. 50 pages. Cute designs with a fall theme.

TOLE  PAINTING

Price = 8.00 USD

Link:  Worth Preserving

Daughter of Xanadu by Dori Jones Yang

 

Author Name    Jones Yang, Dori 
 
Title   Daughter of Xanadu

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Jacket Condition   No Jacket

Type   Book

Edition   1st Edition

Publisher   Westminster, MD, U.S.A. Random House Children's Books 2012

ISBN Number    0385739249 / 9780385739245

Seller ID   021213

Trade paperback. She's determined to become a woman warrior. What she didn't expect was to fall in love with Marco Polo.

Historical  Fantasy

Price = 10.00 USD

Link:   Daughter of Xanadu

Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson by Shirley A Leckie

 
Author Name   Shirley A Leckie
 
Title   Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Type   Book

Publisher   Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. Univ of Nebraska Pr 

ISBN Number    0803279299 / 9780803279292

Seller ID   016838

Trade paperback. University of Nebraska Press, second printing, 1990. In near fine condition, light edgewear. Alice was the wife of Benjamin H Brierson, a major general in the Civil War who won fame for a raid that contributed to the fall of Vicksburg. Her letters begin in 1866, when her husband reentered the army as colonel of the legendary "buffalo soldiers" of the Tenth Cavalry, and end with her death in 1888.

GRIERSON  CAVALRY  RAID  1863  WOMEN 

Price = 10.00 USD

Link:  Alice Kirk Grierson 
 

Cross-Stitch From the Rockies by Emelyn Duncan

Author Name    Emelyn Duncan 
 
Title   Cross-Stitch From the Rockies

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Very Good

Type   Book

Seller ID   015051

Craft pouch with sheet inserts. Designs by Emily Duncan, 1980. In very good condition, pouch shows some wear. Includes Fall Leaf Wreath, Floral Frantasy, High Country Poppies, Mountain Reflections, and Colorado Assisi Aspen and Assisi Columbine.

CROSS  STITCH  

Price = 12.00 USD

Link:  Rockies 
 

Songs on the Trail by Charles Wesley Anderson

 
Author Name    Charles Wesley Anderson 
 
Title   Songs on the Trail

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Good

Type   Book

Edition   Limited

Publisher    Self Published 1917

Seller ID   020427

Softcover, 26 pages. Only 200 copies printed. Good condition, covers are extremely brittle and have severe chipping. Interior pages have minor soiling and are toning, but text is clear. Pasted in photos, front and rear, are in good condition. Verses selected from the writer's contributions to Bert Leston Taylor's Line-O-Type column in the Chicago Tribune. The first eight poems were written while motoring through the Rockies and Sierras in the summer and fall of 1916 - following the Sante Fe and Salida-La Veta trails to the coast, the San Joaquin to Lake Tahoe, and Sections of the Lincoln Highway to Chicago.

WESTERN  POETRY  VERSE  

Price = 75.00 USD

Link:  Songs on the Trail 
 

The Cellar Door by Brett Gadbois

Author Name    Brett Gadbois 
 

Title   The Cellar Door

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Type   Book

Publisher   Bainbridge Island, WA Belltown Press 2010

ISBN Number    0615347312 / 9780615347318 

Illustrator   Nicolas Gadbois

Seller ID   021139

Trade paperback. Near fine condition. Sam is curious nine-year-old. When he manages to fall into another world, he has to learn to survive with only the help of a sage.

Magic,  Fantasy,  Indian  Myth  

Price = 15.00 USD

Link:  Cellar Door 
 

The Gun Report Volume II No 9 February 1957

Title   The Gun Report Volume II No 9 February 1957


Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Very Good

Type   Book

Publisher   Aledo IL World-Wide Gun Report 1957

Seller ID   018190

Magazine. Very good condition, some sunlightening on front cover, top of spine has a small split, minor soiling. 45-70 Springfield Carbines by Donald B Webster Jr, The Henry Family Famous Gunmakers by Paul J Leaser, One of the First to Fall by Carl W Breihan, The Andrew Burgess Rifle by Graham Burnside, Who's Who in the Gun World (Featuring T V Pruitt, South Bend, IN), A Gun With a Story to Tell by A L (Shy) Osborn.

FIREARMS  GUNS  RIFLES  PISTOLS  

Price = 20.00 USD

Link:  Gun Report February 1957

Five Little Pumpkins

Title   Five Little Pumpkins

Binding   Soft cover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Type   Book

Publisher    Scholastic 1999

ISBN Number    043910470X / 9780439104708 

Illustrator   Dan Yaccarino

Seller ID   019850

Softcover. Near fine condition. A fun rhyme to read at Halloween or anytime in the fall.

PUMPKINS  HALLOWEEN  RHYMES 

Price = 6.00 USD

Link:  Five Little Pumpkins