CRYIN' FOR DAYLIGHT. by O'Connor, Louise S - 1989: A Ranching Culture in the Texas Coastal Bend.

NEW YORK: SCRIBNERS, 1879. First American Edition 1st Printing. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Slipcased. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Issue before the Illustrated edition. Signed by Frank Stockton on the front free endpaper. From the recently auctioned collection of M. B. Goldstone--and with his custom penciled signature to the front pastedown. Brown decorated cloth with gilt and black lettering to front board and spine. Goldstone had this copy enclosed in a custom green cloth dustjacket with a small leather title on spine and gilt lettering including the words "First Edition 1879" to bottom cloth spine DJ. Copy and DJ are enclosed in a custom made green morocco slipcase with green matching cloth of the DJ. First issue points include date on title page and first ad at rear covering Frances Hodgson Burnett. Book and dustjacket in near fine condition--only normal age toning. A tight copy--unmarked interior. The slipcase has some edgewear at the top and bottom of the… Read More

San Jose: Self Published [San Jose Notta Bros.], 1916. First Edition. Good. , limited to 300 [9.25x6.25in]; 68 pp., [2], six leaves of halftone portraits of Jayhawkers and illustrated scenes; Brown stiff paper wrappers with gilt stamped lettering on front, brown endpapers, stapled binding, covers extend beyond text block; Age wear to paper covers with creases and chips on all edges and corners, missing 1/4" bottom spine, several small stain and ink spots on covers faded and gilt lettering dulled, offset of 1920 newspaper article tipped in on the death of Stephens and prior owner ink signature on front leaf, oval stain on upper fore edge of first 12 pages, age toning of text throughout; Overall condition of this type and material quality is Very Good. [Kurutz 601, Cowan II p. 613, Graff 3972, Howell 50 1636, Adams 2136]. Lorenzo Dow Stephens (1827-1921) was part of a an Illinois company that left for California in March 1849. The company traveled to Fort Laramie, South Pass, Fort Bridger and Salt… Read More

First edition, First Printing, Full number line, 1985. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine. Binding tight, slightly concave on top, common in this work. Text very clean and unmarked.DJ is VG, slight wrinkle on spine, and on back. No tears or chipping. DJ is price clipped Lonesome Dove was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1985. Mylar Protected.Extra cost for shipping due to weight.

n.p.: Myrtle Jones Longacre, 1963. Good. No DJ. Buckram cover is sunned and shows light soiling and shelf wear. Binding is split at title page. Interior is clean and without ownership marks. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. "A true account of the Jones family."

Tan on boards with red and orange and black front and spine with picture of Mexican Ranger. some little mwear.

[Montana][Railroad] South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana. "The New Constellation" "Stars of the First Magnitude: Added to the Galaxy of States. N.p.: St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company. [1890?] Pictorial wraps. Map. 8.5 x 11 in. Illustrated. 4 pp. Full page map St. Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway and Connections is by Matthews, Northrup & Co., Art-Printing Works, Buffalo, New York. Has been folded. Agent rubber stamp on rear cover. Very good.
OCLC shows no holdings. The St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway was the creation of James J. Hill. Hill and three other investors purchased the nearly bankrupt St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in 1878, renaming it the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company the following year. In 1890 all properties and operations were leased to the Great Northern Railway Company and the Great Northern purchased all of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company's investments, including stocks, bonds, and other miscellaneous… Read More

[Railroad][Mexico] Plumb, Eduardo Lee.
Ferrocarril Internacional.
Lithographed map. 21 x 27 cm. With promotional text in Spanish. Dated at end: México, abril de 1872. Includes map of portions of the United States and Mexico showing railroads from New York to Texas and proposed railroad route from Texas through Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and south to Mexico City.
OCLC shows 5 holdings (Newberry; Harvard; Mus. NM; SMU & UT-Arlington). A project to extend a railroad from Texas to Mexico. This is a promotional urging Mexico to approve the route which was to connect the Texas lines with Mexico, then to Presidio and thence to either the Pacific or to the Gulf of Mexico.

[Vancouver, WA: Mid-Columbia Chamber of Commerce, 1932]. Tall 8vo. 4 x 8.8 in. 15, [1] pp., printed in green & black throughout, with photo illustrations, centerfold pictorial map by Burnham showing routes along Evergreen & Columbia River Highways. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers, splendid wraparound Art Deco cover art of the Columbia River Gorge by Burnham (slight shelfwear), NF. First edition of this exceedingly scarce photo-illustrated travel guide to the Columbia River Gorge, by driving the Evergreen Highway on the Washington side past Beacon Rock and along the Columbia River Highway as far as Celilo Falls and The Dalles. The charming pictorial map by Burnham shows mountaineers on Mt. St. Helens, skiers on Mt. Hood, fishermen in Washougal and on Merwin Lake, sailing on the Columbia River, and more. Burnham (1900-1985) was at the time the Chairmen of the Vancouver City Planning Commission, and a fervent advocate of tourism improvements, pushed for reconstructing the Fort Vancouver… Read More

[Texas] [Houston] Jerome H Farbar. Houston. "Where Seventeen Railroads Meet the Sea."
A descriptive view book in colors. Denver, Col.: H.H. Tammen Company. 1913. Light brown pictorial wraps. 15 x 21 cm. Illustrated. Map [28] pp. One small abrasion to spine of front cover, back cover corner bend else very good.
OCLC shows 17 holdings (Columbia Univ.; Yale; Autry Mus.; LOC; Duke; Univ. Okla.; Dallas Pub. Lib.; TAMU; TAMU-CC; Univ. of Houston; UT-Austin; UT-Arlington; & Texas Tech. Univ.) Photomechanical reproductions of color photographs of Houston, Texas, accompanied by a brief descriptive text by Jerome H. Farber. Many great photographs, including of the ship channel; Galveston causeway; Main Street; City Hall; Main Street from Bell Avenue; Harris County Court House; Preston Street; City Park; Rossonion Apartments; Union Station; Chronicle Building; First National Bank Building; Cotton Barge; City Auditorium; Rice Hotel; Bristol Hotel; Union National Bank; Causeway with train; Grand Central Station;… Read More

[New Mexico] H. B. Hening; E Dana Johnson. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Chief city of a new empire in the great Southwest. Albuquerque, N.M.: Press of the Albuquerque Morning Journal. 1908. Tan pictorial wraps. 28 x 21 cm. Illustrated. [43] pp. Cover wear, edge chips; interior very good.
OCLC shows 14 holdings. Compiled by H.B. Hening and E. Dana Johnson and published with the endorsement of the City Government of Albuquerque and the Albuquerque Commercial Club and with the approval of the New Mexico Bureau of Immigration. Great photographs including two large panoramas of Albuquerque and the Santa Fe train station.