Trade paperback. In very good condition, a 2" piece of the spine has
come loose (could be reglued). Signed: For Sid and Jackie Mintz with
love Myrtle White Romero on the title page. Also includes a dated
article about the book which has left a dark mark on the pages it was
inserted between. A unique look at life in the southwest by the Rio
Grande, as documented by the author.
Hardcover. Second printing. Very good condition, light board edgewear,
corners slightly bumped. DJ is poor, price clipped, has chips and tears.
A picture of the west when he was young (1905-08). "The Knights of the
Jingling Spurs" is one story. Cow-punchers and empty desert sands -
empty except for sand, cacti, moonlight, hot wind, a horse and Sanford
Yoder.
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.
Hardcover. University of New Mexico, 1969, stated first edition. In very
good condition, light board edgewear. DJ is very good, some minor
chipping, minor light soiling on front and back panels, has been price
clipped, in mylar cover. Includes a post card, laid in, written by
author (dated 1-5-70) to Rowland Stebbins Jr., thanking "Steb" for.your
kind words.in his review of this book. Marshall Bond (1867-1941) lived
the life that every American dreams of. He followed the path of high
adventure from one frontier world to another.
Trade paperback. Yucca Tree Press, 1991. In very good condition, some
soiling of outside pages, interior clean and bright. Signed: To Pearl,
Happy Trails From the Pale Rider, Bob. True accounts of New Mexico and
the Old West. 104 pages.
Small softcover, very good condition. An exhibit catalog of 32 pages
showing the artwork of Gene Kloss. She moved to New Mexico with a
60-pound etching press and became a master printmaker.
Hardcover, no DJ, in mylar cover. Belknap Press, 1968, revised edition.
In near fine condition, minor bumping to corners, small mark on rear end
paper. Remarks connected with the fur trade in the course of a voyage
from York Factory to Fort George and back to York Factory 1824-25, with
related documents. Double-spread map depicts North America, circa
1820s-30s, showing the various adminstrative districts of the Hudson's
Bay Company.
Trade
paperback. As new. Addresses the theme of the Victorians' continuing
legacy and its effect on our culture and perception of the world. For
instance, Jack the Ripper on police procedures, the magazine Victoria,
and film television and theatrical adaptations. Categories:Americana - The People,
Hardcover,
no DJ, as issued. Barnes & Noble, 1996, first edition. In near fine
condition, light soiling on rear cover. The Frontier's Earliest Women,
Women on the Overland Trail, Frontier Women in the Rural West, Frontier
Women in the Urban West. Filled with photos. Categories:Americana - The People,
Hardcover, ex-library. University of Oklahoma Press, 1975. In very good
condition, usual library markings, a small spill on first few outside
book pages. The life and work of Edward Everett Dale, a native Texan.
Hardcover. Harper & Row, 1978, first edition. In near fine
condition, DJ is price clipped, in mylar cover. An account of the hard
men, high-spirited women - and a few rascals - who settled the last
frontier of the Old West. An informal history of the High Plains of
Texas and Oklahoma.
Hardcover. Small stain on front end papers and rear end papers have a
small amount of foxing (appears to be from glue). Two red letters on
page edges at top by spine. Interior is bright and clean. Lovely photos
of Remington's work and authentic tales of cowboy days.
Hardcover. Alfred A Knopf, 1964, stated first edition. In near fine
condition, edges lightly bumped. DJ is fair, has chips and some pieces
missing at edges, now in mylar cover. Signed inscription on the front
endpaper to Dean Krakel, from Angus Cameron (Senior Editor at Knopf),
dated 10/5/64. Haynes literally followed the working frontier - from a
tiny shop in Moorehead, Minnesota to his Palace Studio Car, which pulled
in on many a newly laid railroad spur in the Dakota and Montana
territories. He photographed sodbusters, miners, freighters and bull
teams, and cowboys working cattle on the range.
Hardcover.
Naylor, 1958, first edition. In near fine condition, bottom corner of
page 57/58 was folded over during production so it is untrimmed, with a
very good DJ, has some chips at top and price is written on front flap,
in mylar cover. Fighting pens clash with blazing six-guns and flaming
death as frontier newspaper men establish law and order by focusing the
light of pitiless publicity on the corrupt politician and callous kiler.
Adams - Six Guns #1959.
Hardcover. Alfred A Knopf, 1986, stated first American edition. In near
fine condition, with a very good DJ, edges slightly chipped, back panel
soiled, in mylar. The silent army of traders, trappers, and wagon
freighters, merchants, cattlemen, railroaders, and goldrushers, town
boosters, land promoters, speculators, and other profit-seeking
individuals who brought capitalism to the nineteenth-century American
west.
Hardcover. William Heinemann, Ltd, first British edition. In very good
condition, edges lightly bumped and pages toning. DJ is poor, has chips,
tears, and a piece missing at the top of the front panel and spine, now
in mylar cover. Originally published in the USA by W W Norton under the
title "Hell Among the Yearlings", mentioned in Adams - Rampaging Hers,
#1861. He was destined for Princeton and a life of high finance, but a
sudden urge took him to a remote part of Montana as a "dude" rancher.
Trade
paperback. Near fine condition. Over 5,000 terms and expressions form
Aarigaa to Zopilote. Words brought into English by cowboys, fur
trappers, emigrants, Native peoples, Hispanics, Mormons, miners,
loggers, Russian hide hunters, migrant workers, Alaskan fishermen, and
others.
Hardcover, no DJ, covered in mylar. Arthur H. Clarke, 1970. In near fine
condition, light spotting on bottom of front boards. The sixth and
final volume of John Hunton's Diaries.
Hardcover.
Oxford Univeristy, 1973, first edition. In near fine condition, minor
bottom board wear. DJ is very good, spine is sunlightened, now in mylar
cover. The story of the trail that first opened this land to settlement,
and of the men who built it, followed it, and fought over it.
Hardcover. The white cover shows dirt and has some small tears.
Filled with photos of DeGrazia's artwork. His work is commonly seen in
the southwest and has its own grace and charm.
Oversized hardcover. As new. 60 illustrations, including 47 color and
duotone plates. Essay by Peter Palmquist. Not only was he a photographer
and self-taught chemist, he developed and marketed his own line of
photographic paper: Charcoal Black. Even Ansel Adams used it.
Hardcover. Bonanza Books, 1975, "a" letter, a facsimile of the 1898
edition. In near fine condition, minor bumping to corners. DJ is very
good and in mylar. "He Knew the Horse" is the simple epitaph the man
chose for himself, as plain as the word REMINGTON on his gravestone.
Hardcover.
Very good with minor foxing on outside page edges and endpapers. DJ is
good, has edgewear and two small holes and a thumb print on back cover. A
virtual history of West Texas from the close of the frontier to the
present.
Trade paperback. In near fine condition. Colorful cowboy sayings,
stories and poetry told by a hundred-year-old cowboy. "Ma'am, I think
youre as purty as a little red heifter in a flower bed!"
Softcover. In very good condition, some cover wear. Interior is clean
and bright. Full of photos from the days of the Old West. Text is
written for young adults. Go cattle punching with the crew.
