Garden City, New York, USA: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1956 A photographic encyclopedia of historical travel destinations in all 50 States, 64 pages in color! From Pemaquid Point in Maine, the Union Stockyards in Chicago to the Fort Nisqually in Tacoma, Washington. Fascinating look at what a difference 50 years can make. More interesting for its historical value and record of the changes to the city skylines. See maps without Interstates! See how many tourist places you can spot that are no longer even in existence anymore! See what your grandparents used to do in Florida Before-The-Mouse! When Kissimee was a Cow Town and Orlando had Orange Groves! Green and black hardcover (leather???) with gilt lettering on spine in VG condition with slight edge and corner bumping. Spine straight, sewing at end pages starting to show. Pages clean and unmarked except for some slight edge soiling. One page detached. Dust Jacket in Poor condition, shows considerable yellowing and edge wear, other small tears and large chip from back top edge. Backstrip is missing, replaced and taped to front and rear flaps. Else, intact in major parts.. . Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. Illus. by Henri Cartier-Bresson , et al., & Rafael Palacios . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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San Antonio, Texas USA: The Naylor Company, 1976 U.S.A.Bicentennial reissue of this historic Centennial issue. Extensive history of Cooke County Texas up to 1948. From the Red Man to the Oil Man. VG hardcover. No DJ. Some yellowing of backstrip and extremities. Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Little Chute, Wisconsin, USA: Dictus Publications Reprint of the original limited edition published by W. R. Conkey Company of Chicago. " A record of highway robbery, horse stealing, romance and murder. To which is added a detailed and graphic account of the arrest and lynching of Edward Maxwell, at Durand, Wisconsin, November 19th, 1881". (cover blurb). Escapades mainly in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota. Yellow paper wrapper with black spine overwrapped. VG+ condition with minor soiling and two small ink marks on cover. Pages clean and unmarked with slight age toning of page edges. . First Thus. Pictorial Wrapper. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. . (more information)

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College Station, Texas, USA: Creative Publishing Company, 1982 Introduction by Wayne Gard. Sam Bass was one of the boldest bank robbers in the late 1800's LIMITED EDITION of 1000 although this copy was not numbered. F/NF Fine copy with brown leather cover, gilt lettering on cover and spine. Gilt six-gun on cover. All edges gilt. DJ Near Fine has very minor rubbing and some minor soiling visible from inside only . Illustrated end papers. Listed by Ramon F. Adams as one of the most important one hundred fifty books written on western outlaws and lawmen. Reprint of rare 1878 wrapper. . Limited Numbered. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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College Station, Texas, USA: Creative Publishing Company, 1982 LIMITED EDITION Nr. 648 of 1000. Introduction by Wayne Gard. Sam Bass was one of the boldest bank robbers in the late 1800's. F/NF Fine copy with brown leather cover, gilt lettering on cover and spine. Gilt six-gun on cover. All edges gilt. DJ Near Fine has very minor rubbing and some minor soiling visible from inside only. Illustrated end papers. Listed by Ramon F. Adams as one of the most important one hundred fifty books written on western outlaws and lawmen. Reprint of rare 1878 wrapper. . Limited Numbered. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York and London: Prentice-Hall General Reference, 1993 Gripping narrative of the multi-century struggle for survival. Each chapter focuses on a particular war or period. Biographies of native and colonizer leaders, maps ot tribal locations and battle campaigns, historical drawings and photos. Extensive chronology and bibliography. Tan paper hardcover with gilt lettering on cloth backstrip. NF book with minor edge soiling/staining and very slight fading of backstrip. NF Dust jacket with minor wear and edge toning.. Third Printing. Half-Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Jules Tavernier. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (more information)

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Chicago, Illinois, USA: The University of Chicago Press, 1971 Written from an economist's perspective. Discusses impact of unions on wage structure, employment and distribution of income. Oddly, author finds that the role of unions lies not in their collective bargaining power, but rather in their role as a social conscience whereby shaping public opinion. VG- softcover with workers standing in front of Union Local building. Has minor cover wear, scuffing and rubbing. Rear corners folded. Minor soilin gof page edges. Pages have no markings or underlining. Binding tight; spine straight. . Sixth Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Thomas A. Knudtson. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York, Oxford and London : Oxford University Press , 1975 Story of the infamous corrupt New York city political machine, the Tweed Ring as it plunders the city from 1866-1871. William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, Mayor Oakey "The Elegant" Hall, "Slippery Dick" Connoly, and Peter Barr "$weeney". Book has some surface soiling and yellowing, age toning of page edges. One folded corner on pg. 81. . Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. (more information)

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New York, New York, USA: The New American Library, Inc., 1956 The great classic study of the political American way of life. Comprehensive and enlightening survey of government, culture, literature and attitudes of democratic America. Written over a 100 yers ago, but still worth reading today. Specially edited and abridged for the modern reader. VG softcover with illustration of eagle with red ribbon in mouth on front. Slight edge wear and age toning of cover. Slight creases at front hinge and spine. Strong crease on side paper edges. Owner inscription on front fly page, else pages unmarked, no underlining or highlighting. Minor agetoning of pages. . Fifteenth Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by S. Neil Fujita. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (more information)

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College Station, Texas, USA: Creative Publishing Company, 1981 LIMITED EDITION. The Earl-y West Collection. This is one of only 1500 copies of this paperback edition. Intro by Stuart N. Lake. The most complete record of the coroner's inquest and the Wells Spicer Hearing that followed the gunfight. Firsthand accounts of Wyatt and Virgil Earp, James Kehoe, Ernest Storm and others. Many photos and illustrations. Red softcover has some edge yellowing and rubbing. Tape on front cover. , `. . First Edition First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by James. H. Earle. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1955 A novel of 60 years in the life of a young Kentucky community from the first mountain crossings, the rise of southern plantation life to the Civil War. Follows Jacob Skiles family from homesteading in 1803 up to the post-Civil War days. NF+/G Red softcover with trifling edge wear andage toning. Map of Bowling Green on endpages. Red-dyed top paper edges. DJ has some edge tattering and agetoning. Spine sun-faded. Illustration of pioneer couple on covered wagon followed by rider on horseback on front of DJ.. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth. Near Fine Plus/Good. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition. (more information)

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Boston, Toronto : Little, Brown and Company, 1969 Gripping narrative of the 18th century struggle between the French and British Empires to win the allegiance of the powerful Iroquois League culminating in the French and Indian Wars. Maps inc. on end pages. Red hardcover with gilt lettering on backstrip and design on front cover. VG+/P book with minor edge soiling/staining and very slight fading of backstrip.. Dust jacket in poor condition but mostly intact with embrittlement yellowing, tears at creases and missing big pieces at top and bottom of back strip. Text on inside flaps all intact. . Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Poor. Illus. by John Alan Maxwell . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York & Evanston, Illinois USA: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc., 1999 The entire story of Wyatt Earp's life - birth in Iowa to buffalo hunter, bodyguard, detective, bounty hunter, gambler, boxing referee, prospector, saloon keeper, lawman to advisor on Hollywood Westerns. Includes details on Sarah Marcus his companion of 47 years. Cover is three quarter blue cloth boards and black paper with gold colored lettering on backstrip. Dust jacket has some age toning of inside edges.. Second Printing. Three-Quarter Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Tony Greco and Associates. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . (more information)

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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967 Reprint (1903). The story of the cowboy life on the old cow paths of the West and the Longhorn Highways of the Plains, Atascosa, Colorado, Brazos and Wichita, Dodge City, Doan's Crossing, The Beaver, Slaughter's Bridge, Forty Islands Ford and the Yellowstone, etc. Five illustrations and cover painting by Charles M. Russel "Through the Alkali". Interesting story of surviving Sherman's March to the Sea while author was a child in Georgia. PB with some edge soiling and dampstaining, one corner torn. One quarter size coffee stain and an one inch piece of tape on back cover. Minor page yellowing. Owner inscription on half title page. Pages unmarked and generally clean, spine straight. . Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by E. Boyd Smith . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996 Revised Edition First Printing. A forensic anthropological search for final whereabouts of Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and Etta Place. Author traced the trio thru Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia; in local newspapers and documents, and exhumed skeletons. Unearthed eyewitness accounts of their final holdup and shootout. This revised editon includes new letters by the bandits and interviews with Argentinian police. Fresh information about William Phillips who cloaimed to be Butch Cassidy. Bison Books / University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 1969. second Bison Book printing, trade paperback, 390 pages 8 b+w illustrations, condition: NF with some edge yellowing and corner wear.. First Bison Book Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York & Chicago, USA: Dell Publishing, 1991 Presumed First Dell Printing. Listed as a reprint of a Rutledge Hill Press printing. At last, the True Killer revealed ! Who the killer was, the motive for the killings and what Lizzie's actual role in the affair was. Maybe. A sordid tale of greed and infidelity. Red hardcover book with black spine in Fine condition. DJ in VG- condition some dampstaining and very minor yellowing of edges. Slight edge wear.. Unlisted. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good Minus. Illus. by Dena Mortell. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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White Sulphur Springs, Montana, USA : Meagher County News, 1980 signed - FIRST EDITION. Legendary badman who rose from being a baker to election as first Sheriff of Montana Territory only to be hung on a scaffold of his own making. Photos and illustrations. Rich brown leatherette hardcover in NF condition except for some dampstaining on bottom edge and rear end page by bottom hinge. Gilt lettering on front and spine bright and intact. Page edges show slightest age toning. Hinges and Binding tight, pages clean. DJ in Good Minus condition, intact but has waterstaining on spine and near bottom of backstrip and on rear flap. Shows age darkening of edges, folds and backstrip. Minor edge wear and one tiny tear at front hinge. SIGNED: Author inscription on front endpage to (the late) Paul Montgomery dated 3/27/83. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Leather. Near Fine Minus/Good Minus. Illus. by Jim Knight. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London, UK: Longmans, Green and Co., Inc., 1965 FIRST EDITION. Story of how the Pinkertons, in the pay of the Coal and Iron Special Interests, infiltrated the secret society of Irish coal miners called the Molly Maguires. While not a labor union nor defenders of all miners or working men, and they were no saint or angels. As neither were the mine operators. They however did have enought influence that the coal owners were not able to implement industry-wide pay cuts in the Pennsylvania coal region until the power of the Mollies was broken. G+/G- green hardcloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. Interesting reports of the squalor and poverty of life in the Pennylvania Appalachians in the 19th Century. Cover has moderate edge soiling. Page ends have slight age toning. Pages have no markings or undelining. Binding tight spine straight. Dust jacket is intact. Shows moderate yellowing, soiling, rubbing and scuffing. Moderate edge wear and tattering. Dampstaining and cracking of hinges. . First Edition. Cloth. Good Plus/Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969 A stirring account of the story ot the American Revolutionary War as fought in Old Northwest Territory, centering around the exploits of George Rogers Clark and his Long Knives. Capture of Kaskaskia and Vincennes, helping to obtain the fertile lands north of the Ohio for the US. Brown cloth boards with black cloth backstrip. Gilt design at hinges; gilt lettering on spine. Book edges have slight agetoning. DJ has only slight rubbing wear but does have moderate yellowing of the paper, particulartly the spine. . Second Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Minus. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York & Chicago, USA: Grosset & Dunlap, 1910 Four previous copyright dates listed. Published 1910 in arrangement with G. W. Dillingham Co.. Four Rousing Novels of the West Complete in one volume. Red cloth cover with waterstaining of front board. Age darkening of spne. Small tear in back hinge. End pages illustrated with cowboy scene but waterstained as are several pages after. Corners bumped and bottom of front cover is frayed. Bindings at front title page and rear end page are weak Very slight foxing of pages. Text intact. Reading copy only. . Fifth Printing. Cloth. Poor/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. . (more information)

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Glenview, Illinois, USA: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1987 50 Adaptable, Delightful dimensional displays for the primary grades. Part of the Good Year Books series Bulletin boards for Language Arts, Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies, 58 pages with b+w illustrations, condition: VG, with some edge yellowing and corner wear.. Third Printing. Soft Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (more information)

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Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977 FIRST EDITION. Wonderful, whimsical collection of humorous newspaper articles written in dialect by Finley Peter Dunne in 1890's in Chicago Evening Post. Featuring Martin J. Dooley, a fictional Irish saloon owner on Archer Avenue in Bridgeport with a clear-eyed view of life and politics in Chicago. A regular character was Chicago (Brighton Park) author John McKenna. Period Photos. VG Quarter-bound black boards with black cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and front. Minor edge and corner wear. Pages unmarked. Photo of 1876 Chicago White Stockings (Now Chicago Cubs) with manager A.G. Spalding.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York, New York, USA: Pantheon Books Div of Random House, 1977 Story of the Invisible women in America's history. Study of women in factories, slave women, colonial women, pioneer women,union women and white-collarwomen. VG- softcover with women workers, train and horses. Has minor scuffing cover wear, folded corner and price label on rear. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages have no markings or underlining. Minor edge toning and soiling. Owner inscription on half-title page. . First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Charles Lilly. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA: Loiusian State University Press, 1997 SIGNED; FIRST EDITION. Life of Cullen M. Baker the Swamp Fox of the Sulfur (River). Romanticized as a six-gun artist and defender of Old South traditions he was a violent misfit of the Reconstruction period who found acceptance as an enforcer of white supremacy. Murdering unarmed blacks and Freedmen's Bureau agents in the Texas-Arkansas-Louisiana triangle until until his own neighbors rose against him. Offers a portrait of social life and conflict among whites in the post-war South. Black cloth cover with metallic red lettering on spine. NF-/NF with minor dampstaining on 3 pages. Dust jacket near fine with age toning of edges. Maps. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine Minus/Near Fine. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . (more information)

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London, UK: The English Westerners' Society, 1973 FIRST EDITION. The Brand Book Vol. 16 No. 1 October 1973 Publication No. 193. Contains a short biography of Francis B. Heitman, a seargent and clerk, author of "Historical Register and Dicionary of the United States Army" which was the Standard Work of the 19th century American Army and of the Indian Wars. Though the work is famous the author long remained almost completely unknown. Contains comparisons of similar works of the time. NF minus stapled paper with moderate age toning and soiling of spine and cover. One wrinkle of bottom back cover page. Pages unmarked and clean. . First Edition. Stapled Paper. Near Fine Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . (more information)

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Fort Davis, Texas, USA: Bartholomew House , 1984 Reprint (1947 by Old Fort Davis Company) A history of this historic fort in west Texas.List of Waterhoes from San Antonio to El Paso and distances apart. Camels in Texas. Illustraton of Old Fort now a National Historic Site. VG with slight soiling of covers and some edge yellowing. Pages clean and unmarked. 102 pp.. . First Thus. Pictorial Wrapper. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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College Station, Texas, USA: Texas A & M University Press, 1989 "The true story of Charles A. Siringo Texas Cowboy, longhorn trail driver, private detective, rancher, New Mexico Ranger and author. Revealing highlights of his action-filled life...and his intermittent battles with Pinkerton's National Detective Agency..." (Authors note). Includes the Coeur d'Alene Labor Riots, hounding moonshiners in Kentucky and Virginia; chasing Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch through the West and other adventures in Alaska, British Columbia and Mexico. Eventually left and denounced the Pinkertons as a "disgrace". Legal battles ensued for 18 years. Top book corner has slight dampstaining; dust jacket has age toning on top and bottom edges but no rips or tears.. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Illus. by Cameron Poulter. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Evanston, Illinois, USA: Row, Peterson and Company, 1941 Basic Social Education Series, Richard W. Bardwell, Editorial Director. History including pre-federal government, President and Congress, Conquering Distance, Equal Justice Under the Law, Insure Domestic Tranquility, Army and Navy, Raising Our Standard of Living, The Family Makes a Living, When Trouble Comes, and Our Constitutional Rights. All those little things that make up how our government is Supposed to work and how it if fact used to work. NF- softcover of 48 pp. Illustrated colored map on inside covers. Many b/w photos and orange illustrations. Minor edge wear. No other library markings except one red ink stamp on title page from (Frank W.) Gunsaulus School Chicago B. of Ed. . First Edition First Printing. Stapled Pictorial Cover. Near Fine Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by James Sieger, Lynd Ward, and Eileen Fox Vaughan. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Wolfe City, Texas, USA: Henington Publishing Company, 1983 New Revised Edition, First Printing. With additonal new material and photos. Forward by Bill C. James. Intro by Joe Skeen. Ed. by Robert W. Stephens. Probably the most dangerous man in Texas, New Mexico or Oklahoma. Killed at least 18 men starting with his own grandparents when he was 8 yrs. old. New evidence that he may in fact have not been the killer of Pat Garrett as long believed. 42 text pp. plus photos. Tan pictorial wrappers in VG+ condition. Illustrated with numerous photos of families and protagonists. Cover has some scuffing anddampstaining of spine. Pages clean. SIGNED by author; inscribed to (the late) Paul Montgomery on 4/9/83.. Signed by Author. Revised Edition. Stapled Pictorial Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . (more information)

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Wolfe City, Texas, USA: Henington Publishing Company, 1985 LIMITED EDITION. Nr. 86 of 200 copies - First Edition, First Printing. Forward by Bill C. James. Ft. Worth shootout between "Longhair Jim" Courtright of Illinois and Luke Short of Mississippi. 14 pp. tot. Tan pictorial wrappers in VG condition. Illustrated with photos of protagonists. Cover has some dampstaining near bottomspine and agetoning of edges. Pages clean. SIGNED twice by author. Signed and then inscribed to (the late) Paul Montgomery on 5/10/85.. Signed by Author. Limited Numbered. Stapled Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . (more information)

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