History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by McGlashan, C. F. [Charles Fayette] - 1934

New York: Harper & Brothers [1940], 1st edition. (Hardcover) 304pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. The dust jacket is bright but has edgewear, minor chipping and tears with some creases. (sounds grim but the book actually looks pretty good in its archival jacket protector. Jacket design by George Giguere. Locale:. (Western Fiction).

Limited first edition. Art and design by John H. Flores. Poetry by Thomas Hornsby Ferril. The Westerners is an organization that is focused primarily on western history. A limited edition in hardback with no jacket. This is copy number 713 of 1000. Book is Very Good to Near Fine with some wear at spine ends, and with a shallow dimple on the spine near the top. The book was dedicated to Fred Rosenstock who was a well-known book dealer in Denver. He opened his first store in 1922, and in 1962 opened Fred A. Rosenstock Books on East Colfax’s Book Row. He specialized in western history. This was a presentation copy from Rosenstock to a friend, as per written gift inscription on the half title page. Signed by Rosenstock and dated Sept. 5 – 1975. Rosenstck wrote a chapter for this book. He was the subject of a biography written by Donald E. Bower, Foreword by Frank Waters, and published by Northland Press.

1963 Horn Wallace trade hardcover set of 2 books. High quality facsimile of the 1911 edition. Both volumes sturdily bound in red cloth, gold lettering on spine, blind stamp on front board all fine, clean & square. Bindings tight & straight. Pages clean, unmarked & bright. All illustrations & fold-out maps accounted for. In tight, unread condition.

Mexico] Willis S. Hunt.
Plan of Haciendas Los Becos & Carrízal. District of Culican, Sinolosa Mexico. [Nogales, Arizona?]: Willis S. Hunt. [Circa 1920s] One sheet 22 x 38 cm. Maps. Folded. Edge wear and splits at folds. Fair.
OCLC shows no holdings for this item or this development. Willis S. Hunt appears in the Nogales papers from 1919 to the 1920s as a Culiacan, Mexico resident and land agent. An ambitious attempt to market 247 acre blocks to Americans. Map shows the Southern Pacific Railway line. The map on the verso shows larger area around the proposed development.

Wilder Laura Ingalls: The Long Winter. 1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform Edition. Pictures by Garth Williams. BIOGRAPHY. Used. VG/Acceptable $2.95 Original Snowball fight Dust Jacket. Back panel of jacket is water- stained. The story of the hard winter of 1880-1881 in the Dakota Territory with the pioneer Ingalls Family. Little House on the Prairie series. 335 pages. 6 X 8 ¼.

[Portland, OR: Passenger Traffic Department, Southern Pacific Lines, Irwin-Hodson Co., March 11, 1925]. 4to. Printed & bound in double-columns, center fold. [32 pp.] Numerous text illustrations, photo illustrations, double-page colour centerfold of Crater Lake National Park, maps. Colour-illustrated softcovers, beautiful Jazz Age cover art of hikers amongst the mountains & forest (slight shelfwear, very slight rubbing), VG copy. Early printing of this wonderfully illustrated promotional travel brochure for the Southern Pacific, including wonderful photo illustrations of hotels, motels, attractions, beaches, and more.

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed [9.25x6.25in]; xiii, [10], illustrations, 422 pp., frontispiece color illustration of sea otter by John Webber, 11 illustrations of plates from exploration books by Cook, Vancouver, Dixon, and others, nine tables of trade ships by years, extensive notes and bibliography, index; Black cloth cover with gilt lettering and designs on spine, tan end papers with maps of the world routes and Northwest coast [of North America], all edges trimmed; Black dust jacket with white and tan lettering on front and spine inside white borders with designs, brown-toned illustration of sea otter by Webber on front, review of book on back; Negligible shelf wear to book or dust jacket, short inscription by author on title page. This is a readable scholarly on the fur trade system from the Pacific Northwest to China and then to Europe and America in the late 1700's and 1800's. Gibson is a professor that has focused on geography and… Read More

Large quarto (14 X 10 1/2 inches) San Francisco: David Magee, 1967. One of 475 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem. 171 pages printed on heavy wove paper, quarter bound brick red leather with title in gilt on the spine, patterned paper over boards, hardcover - very good condition (minor scuffing at head and tale of spine from shelf wear, not affecting contents).

Illustrated with 60 plates - full size reproductions showing examples of California Gold Rush letter sheets - one facsimile is in a pocket at the rear of the book. Also included: a selective bibliography; an index of artists, engravers, lithographers, and publishers; and a subject and title index.

A checklist and census of artists and printers who produced "... thousands of vivid pictorial records on sheets of writing paper, (that) remain the major surviving visual account of California of that era....," both during and after the California Gold Rush.

"A . . . curious blend of local enthusiasm and topical recording ...… Read More

[Portland, OR & Baker, OR: The Old Oregon Trail Association; Ryder Bros., Printers and Stationers, 1927. Tall 8vo. 4 x 9.25 in. 63, [1] pp. Photo illustrations & strip maps throughout, double-page centerfold map & photos, 1 folding colour map. Photo-illustrated softcovers, cover art showing water falls above Wallowa Lake on back cover (minor creasing to couple corners), still VG copy. First edition of this uncommon automobile guide for intrepid motorists driving the route of the Old Oregon Trial from Council Bluffs on the Missouri River to Seaside, Oregon, with sidetrip to Yellowstone National Park, and then into eastern Oregon along the Columbia River finishing up on the scenic Columbia River Highway through the scenic gorge.

Austin: The Encino Press, 1971. First Edition, 1st Printing. Near Fine. SIGNED by author, #674 of 850 numbered copies, [xin]; [1], 51 pp., [1] colophon, five black and white images (several double pages); Dark brown paper on boards with gilt lettering on spine, cream label with image of a horse rangler and black lettering on front, all edges trimmed, image of cowboys and horses herding cattle on both end papers; Negligible shelf wear with prior owner book label on front end paper and author's signature on front free flylealf.