Horse and Buggy West: A Boyhood on the Last Frontier by O'Connor, Jack - 1969

Chicago: A. C. McCLurg & Co., 1916. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. About fine, with pev. owner inscr., and a ticket from the 1980 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair taped to the ffep.. Dust jacket has points of wear at extremities, and a slightly mottled spine, but is very attractive indeed, and has done a great job of keeping the cover and spine illustration delightfully bright. Scarce thus..

Pruett Publishing, 1990. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. First edition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear. Very slight crease on the bottom left corner on the front cover of the dust jacket. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, tan paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Viking, 1983. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, ochre paper-covered boards. Fine in very close to fine dust jacket with crease to the rear flap and one tiny edge tear. This original edition of In the Spirit of Crazy Horse was withdrawn by the publisher when Matthiessen and Viking were sued for libel by David Price, an FBI agent, and the former South Dakota Governor, William J. Janklow. After 4 years of litigation, the suit was dismissed, after 3 additional years of appeals, the book was finally reissued by Viking in an updated edition. This is the original suppressed edition.

[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

Chicago: A. C. McCLurg & Co., 1916. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. About fine, with pev. owner inscr., and a ticket from the 1980 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair taped to the ffep.. Dust jacket has points of wear at extremities, and a slightly mottled spine, but is very attractive indeed, and has done a great job of keeping the cover and spine illustration delightfully bright. Scarce thus..

Pruett Publishing, 1990. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. First edition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear. Very slight crease on the bottom left corner on the front cover of the dust jacket. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, tan paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Viking, 1983. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, ochre paper-covered boards. Fine in very close to fine dust jacket with crease to the rear flap and one tiny edge tear. This original edition of In the Spirit of Crazy Horse was withdrawn by the publisher when Matthiessen and Viking were sued for libel by David Price, an FBI agent, and the former South Dakota Governor, William J. Janklow. After 4 years of litigation, the suit was dismissed, after 3 additional years of appeals, the book was finally reissued by Viking in an updated edition. This is the original suppressed edition.

[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