R. B. Robertson, Union Pacific System, 1931. First edition. Map. Folded brochure which when unfolded has informative text on one side, and is printed with a map of Hoover Dam on the reverse. Bottom trimmed close. 32 x 16.5 " when unfolded. With a couple of minor splits to the..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1932. Hardcover. 47pp. Small slim quarto [25.5 cm] 1/4 pale green cloth with marbled paper over boards, and a green paper title labels stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Color frontispiece illustration of Yerba Buena, from a lithograph by John J. Vioget. Top..... More
New York: Printed by J.J. Little & Co., 1900. First edition. 270pp. Octavo. red cloth with silver stamped decorations and titles. Illustrated with photographs taken by the author. Very good. Minor rubbing and discoloring to boards, pastedowns and endsheets. More
Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1966. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 47pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Brown cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and the boundaries of Wyoming and Colorado stamped in gilt on the front cover. In the publisher's plain dust wrapper. Errata slip..... More
Minneapolis: The Northwestern Press, 1953. Hardcover. SIGNED 314pp. Octavo. Price clipped dust jacket with a handful of closed tears. More
Washington DC: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848. First edition. Three-quarter leather. 416pp. Octavo [23 cm]. Modern rebind in three-quarter brown calf over decorative boards, gilt-stamped spine titles, raised spine bands. Leather at rear lower corner pulling up just a bit at edge, else leather and boards unworn; foxing throughout lightly..... More
Washington, D.C. Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848. Second Senate Issue. Hardcover. 416pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Brown cloth over boards with a paper title label on the spine. Lacking the folding map. Ex-Historical Society copy, with a label on the front pastedown, and a couple of discreet stamps on the..... More
Moscow, ID: University Press of Idaho, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Sky blue cloth spine and boards. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the tip of the upper rear corner. Fair amount of bumping at the tip of the upper front corner. Very light..... More
El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 137pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] 1/2 light blue cloth with tan cloth covered boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a gilt stamped design on the front cover. Good only. The spine ends and edges of the covers are..... More
Flagstaff, AZ: Five Quail Books and Fretwater Press, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. Small octavo in red wraps, 97 pp. One of 400 trade paperback copies. Farquhar's famous bibliography of 125 seminal works on the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon from the 16th through the 20th centuries. Published one year prior..... More
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. i-xi, 75 [1] pp. Red cloth with paper spine label. Minor wear. Light soiling and a few pencil marks internally, page xi, has a minor edge tear that has been professionally reinforced. Internally near fine. More
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 75pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Red cloth with a paper title label across the spine and boards. Very good condition. There is a 1/4 inch tear in the cloth at the head of the spine. The paper title label on the front cover..... More
New York: Scribner, 201]. Later paperback printing. Paperback. 417pp. Octavo [21.3cm]. Illustrated wraps. From one of Outside magazine’s “Literary All-Stars” comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the legendary flood of 1983..... More
Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1896. Fergus' Historical Series edition (Author's presentation copy). Paperback. 124pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] The front and rear wrap are both absent, and there are very sporadic brief markings on the pages. This copy is compliments of the author, with his inscription, dated Aug. 22, 1896, (not..... More
Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Lightning Tree Press, 1991. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 193 pp. Octavo. [22.5 cm]. 1/4 tan cloth over brown boards. Author's signature blind stamped on front board. Gilt title stamped on spine. In original brown slip case. Publisher's note laid in. Signed by Executive Director, Secretary Editor..... More
Denver: Fred A. Rosenstock; The Old West Publishing Company, 1940. First Fred A. Rosenstock edition edited by Paul C. Phillips. Hardcover. 365pp. Large octavo [24 cm] Red cloth over boards. Publisher's dark red topstain. Other edges deckled. With the map. The spine ends are just a little bruised, and there..... More
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1937. The Library Edition (Second Printing). Hardcover. 431pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles, and gilt and green ink stamped vignettes on the spine and front cover. The spine ends and corners of the covers are rubbed. The hinges..... More
Berkeley: The Bancroft Library; University of California, 2002. Hardcover. 269pp. Quarto [23.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards with printed paper title labels on the spine and front board. The text is in English and Spanish. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First UK edition. Hardcover. 236; 28pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth over boards. Ex-library, with library numbers rubbed out on spine and a small numerical stamp on the verso of the title page. Spine a bit sunned. Hinges glued. Ex-libris Joseph M. Gleason, with his..... More
Los Angeles: Frontier Publishing Company, 1931. Guy M. Welch. First edition. Hardcover. 74pp. Sextodecimo [17.5 cm] Brown cloth over flexible card boards, with an illustration of a cowboy on his horse against a silver moon, on the front cover. Yellow patterned endpapers. Good only. The edges of the spine and..... More
Logan: Utah State University, 2011. Hardcover. 350pp. Octavo [24 cm] Charcoal gray paper covered boards with a decorative gilt stamped title on the spine. With a dust jacket. From the jacket- "Perceiving pyramids and promised lands in the desert, Bedouins on the plains, or Mount Fujis above the forest, Americans..... More
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1845. Senate Issue. Hardcover. 691pp. Octavo [23 cm] Rebound in sturdy tan cloth. New endsheets and flyleaves. Good plus. The plates and pages are foxed, and there are sporadic tidemarks of varying sizes on the pages as well. 22 single-sided plates (views, botanical, fossils) and 3..... More
Washington DC: Tippen & Streeper, 1849; 1848. House of Representatives 30th Congress, 2nd Session. Miscellaneous. No. 5. 40pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Previously bound with other material. Foxing to cover. Preuss's (1848, Senate) map present with restoration. The report of this third expedition of Fremont is uncharastically short, due to Fremont's..... More
New York: Penguin, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Octavo [24cm]. 1/4 blue paper over navy boards. Title stamped in silver on the spine and front board. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 176pp. Quarto [26 cm] Brown boards with gilt lettering. With very light wear to the spine ends and corners. In the illustrated dust jacket, with occasional minor closed tears and chips to the edges. More