Five Separate Weekly Issues, Jan. - Aug., 1856, of Railroad Record and Journal of Commerce, Banking, Manufactures, and Statistics by D. Mansfield, Editor; T. And W. Wrightson, Assoc. Eds - 1856

Portland, OR: The Author, 1916. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR "To 'Ma' and 'Billy' Sunday", a full page inscription dated Wednesday, Aug. 2nd, 1916 - " To 'Ma' and 'Billy' Sunday from The Portland Ad Club - This book is man's effort to portray something of the grandeur and the glory of the Gorge of the Columbia where the hand of God wrought mightily~ We hope that you will come often to see us and enjoy it, since the highway which the people of the Oregon Country have built connects us with your dooryard - Our latch string is always out to both of you. S.C.L The Highw Engineer". Billy Sunday was a popular outfielder in baseball's Major Leagues in the 1880s whose conversion to Christianity led him to become the most popular and influential evangelist of the first 2 decades of the Twentieth Century. He socialized with Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and counted both Herbert Hoover and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. as friends. It is… Read More

Salt Lake City: "Salt Lake Herald" Publishing Co., 1874. Very Good, in original black cloth, gilt title at spine, cloth rubbed at tips, front hinge starting, advertisement pastedowns and end pages, lacking the maps and frontispiece portrait of Brigham Young, small book plate front pastedown and blindstamp title page of Brigham Young University, call numbers painted on at spine, no other library markings or indications but laid in is book purchase request (undated) from Indiana University Library ( where acquired at its recent sale). Included are a "Sketch of Mormonism," a chronology of Utah history, sketches of counties, mining districts (pp. 112-171), government, churches, etc. The directory lists individuals, businesses, and organizations with professions and addresses. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. RARE -SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on end page following half-title page - " To an old and tried friend Dana Coman. Arthur Walden Sept. 1/30". In 1927 Walden helped train sled dogs and drivers for Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s Antarctic expedition, and he led the dog-sled freighting of the supplies from the ships to Byrd's base camp "Little America". Walden later became the original breeder of the Chinook sled dog. In 1930 Walden, considered to be one of the most respected and heralded pioneers of the Klondike and Alaskan gold rushes, was presented a photographic album by Admiral Byrd that contained over 500 images of the Antarctic expedition of 1928-30. Dana Coman (Dr Francis Dana Coman (1895-1952) ) was with Byrd’s first and second expeditions to Antarctica and was a personal doctor of Admiral Byrd. He later had a mountain named after him by Finn Ronne of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition of 1947-48. Later… Read More

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press , 1983. RARE. A strong and striking black and white photograph of the Comanche war chief Quanah Parker, superimposed over a blood red map of the part of Texas involved in the Red River Indian War. Fine, as issued, 20"w x 26"h, printed on high quality paper and distributed in limited number at the ABA trade show in 1983. Eminently suited for framing, and will be shipped loosely rolled in a sturdy mailing tube. . Poster. 20" x 26".

London: Published By the Author, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly , 1841. "Written During Eight Years Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36. 37, 38, and 39. With 400 Illustrations carefully engraved from His Original Paintings." Two volumes in contemporary bright red cloth with decorations and lettering in gilt and black at front covers and spines. With decorative end papers. Very Good, spines slightly sunned and with slight lean, hinges starting with rear hinge Vol. I open, all hinges holding well. At first blank end page both vols. an 1890s prior owner name and prior owner inscription detailing provenance. Fold-out map at frontis Vol. I and frontis map and map at p. 259 Vol. II are Fine. The First Edition of Catlin's self-published classic, 2nd issue, with error "Frederick" for "Zedekiah" on page 104, line 26 of Volume I corrected. Alll illustrations in black and white. No errata slip found. Interior pages clean and… Read More

Portland, OR: The Author, 1916. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR "To 'Ma' and 'Billy' Sunday", a full page inscription dated Wednesday, Aug. 2nd, 1916 - " To 'Ma' and 'Billy' Sunday from The Portland Ad Club - This book is man's effort to portray something of the grandeur and the glory of the Gorge of the Columbia where the hand of God wrought mightily~ We hope that you will come often to see us and enjoy it, since the highway which the people of the Oregon Country have built connects us with your dooryard - Our latch string is always out to both of you. S.C.L The Highw Engineer". Billy Sunday was a popular outfielder in baseball's Major Leagues in the 1880s whose conversion to Christianity led him to become the most popular and influential evangelist of the first 2 decades of the Twentieth Century. He socialized with Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and counted both Herbert Hoover and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. as friends. It is… Read More

Salt Lake City: "Salt Lake Herald" Publishing Co., 1874. Very Good, in original black cloth, gilt title at spine, cloth rubbed at tips, front hinge starting, advertisement pastedowns and end pages, lacking the maps and frontispiece portrait of Brigham Young, small book plate front pastedown and blindstamp title page of Brigham Young University, call numbers painted on at spine, no other library markings or indications but laid in is book purchase request (undated) from Indiana University Library ( where acquired at its recent sale). Included are a "Sketch of Mormonism," a chronology of Utah history, sketches of counties, mining districts (pp. 112-171), government, churches, etc. The directory lists individuals, businesses, and organizations with professions and addresses. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. RARE -SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on end page following half-title page - " To an old and tried friend Dana Coman. Arthur Walden Sept. 1/30". In 1927 Walden helped train sled dogs and drivers for Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s Antarctic expedition, and he led the dog-sled freighting of the supplies from the ships to Byrd's base camp "Little America". Walden later became the original breeder of the Chinook sled dog. In 1930 Walden, considered to be one of the most respected and heralded pioneers of the Klondike and Alaskan gold rushes, was presented a photographic album by Admiral Byrd that contained over 500 images of the Antarctic expedition of 1928-30. Dana Coman (Dr Francis Dana Coman (1895-1952) ) was with Byrd’s first and second expeditions to Antarctica and was a personal doctor of Admiral Byrd. He later had a mountain named after him by Finn Ronne of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition of 1947-48. Later… Read More

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press , 1983. RARE. A strong and striking black and white photograph of the Comanche war chief Quanah Parker, superimposed over a blood red map of the part of Texas involved in the Red River Indian War. Fine, as issued, 20"w x 26"h, printed on high quality paper and distributed in limited number at the ABA trade show in 1983. Eminently suited for framing, and will be shipped loosely rolled in a sturdy mailing tube. . Poster. 20" x 26".

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1851. "Collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, per Act of Congress of March 3d, 1847." Presentation Copies of Parts I, III, and IV only, each part a First Edition, 1851, 1853, and 1854 published by Lippincott, Grambo & Company, Philadelphia . Part I SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "Prof. George Howe with respect of H.R. Schoolcraft" at front paste down in tidy secretatial hand. Parts III and IV SIGNED AND INSCRIBED alike "Rev. George Howe with respects of H.R. Schoolcraft". George Howe (1802-1883 was an ordained minister and professor at Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Columbia, S.C. and the author of History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina published 1870-1883. Provenance: Part I additionally SIGNED AND INSCRIBED at front paste down "Presented to Joseph Hyde Pratt by Prof. George Howe University of North Carolina". Prof. George Howe (1876-1936) was the grandson of… Read More