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The Land of Purple Shadows (SIGNED)
by Strobridge, Idah Meacham
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- First Edition, Limited #40 of 1000 copies
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- 1909
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Monterey, California, USA
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$368.00
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Los Angeles: Artemisia Bindery, 1909. First Edition, Limited #40 of 1000 copies. 8vo. (12), 133, (1 colophon), + 8pp ads for the Artemisia Bindery and books. Frontispiece, headpieces and plates by Maynard Dixon. SIGNED by the author. Bound by the Artemisia Bindery in three-quarter black morocco andgreen cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. "Two of Idah Meacham Strobridge's books,… Read more about this item Item Price
$368.00
The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter, of California
by Hittell, Theodore H.
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- First Edition
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- 1860
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- Hardcover
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Monterey, California, USA
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$263.00
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San Francisco: Towne and Bacon, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo; [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [9] 10-378 [379-382]pp with brown coated endpapers. Illustrated with frontis engraving of Adams and 11 other tissue-protected engravings by Charles Nahl. Complete (with two gatherings pulled loose with several closed tears) in worn publisher's brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel… Read more about this item Item Price
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Archive of Van Voorhies-Phinney Company, including a history, company catalogs and two Vanco printers blocks
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- First Edition
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- 1940
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Monterey, California, USA
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$788.00
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Sacramento, CA: Van Voorhies-Phinney Company, 1940. First Edition. The Gold Rush made Sacramento a major commercial center and distribution point for Northern California, serving as the terminus for the Pony Express and the First Transcontinental Railroad. Founded in 1850 (as R. Stone and Co.), by the late 1800s Alexander Van Voorhies and son-in-law George Phinney, now the Van Voorhies-Phinney… Read more about this item Item Price
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Empire on the Platte
by Crabb, Richard; with research by Burt Sell
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- First Edition
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- 1967
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Monterey, California, USA
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$893.00
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Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co, 1967. First Edition. An official publication of the Nebraska Centennial. This is number 180 of a special edition of 250 copies SIGNED by the author". 8vo. x, 373 pp. Index. Illustrated by Ernest L. Reedstrom and with photographic plates and portraits throughout, map endpapers. Two original paper "Nebraska Centennial" blue promotional wrap-around… Read more about this item Item Price
$893.00
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (INSCRIBED)
by Reisner, Marc
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- First Edition
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- 1986
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Monterey, California, USA
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$473.00
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New York: Viking Press, 1986. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on half-title page. Large 8vo. 582 pp. Bibliography; Index. Photo-reproductions. A fine copy of an important work on the origins and disappearing water in the Western United States. A social history of the politics of water in the United States and the environmental destruction wreaked by dams. "Cadillac… Read more about this item Item Price
$473.00
The History of Klamath County Oregon
by (Cover design by Janis B. Kafton)
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- First Edition
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- 1984
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- Hardcover
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Monterey, California, USA
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$158.00
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Portland OR: Klamath County Historical Society, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; color frontis, 488pp (including a General History Index and a Family History Index); profuse photo illustrations. Map front endpapers, 'Family Record' and 'Family Tree' rear endpapers. Occasional light yellow text highlighting, else a Fine copy in green leatherette lettered in gold with historic scene blind embossed in gold… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mitchell's New Traveller's Guide through the United States, Containing the Principal Cities, Towns, &c
by Mitchell, S. Augustus (map drawn by Ira S. Drake)
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- First Thus
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- 1850
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Monterey, California, USA
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$473.00
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Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co, 1850. First Thus. 12mo; 128pp (118pp plus 10pp ads). Full dark green morocco, upper board with gilt tooling and title; with large engraved folded hand-colored map drawn by Ira S. Drake tipped at rear. This pocket map shows the United States west to the Mississippi River and a little beyond to include a small portion… Read more about this item Item Price
$473.00
Pictorial History of the Lassen Volcano
by Loomis, Benjamin Franklin
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- First Edition
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- 1926
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Monterey, California, USA
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$105.00
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San Francisco: California Press, 1926. First Edition. 8vo. 139, [2] pp. Fold-out map; single page map. Frontispiece; black & white photographic illustrations throughout. Gilt-stamped brown cloth with photographic print of the erupting Lassen Peak. A fine copy. First detailed account of lassen Volcanic National Park, which was established August 9, 1916. The dominant feature of the park is Lassen… Read more about this item Item Price
$105.00
Montana: a Paper Trail
by Minckler, Thomas E.
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- First Edition
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- 2023
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- 9780917298219
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Monterey, California, USA
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$105.00
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Helena MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 2023. First Edition. Large 4to (10" x 12"). 440 pp. Bibliography; Index. Many color and black & white illustrations, color frontispiece of Heavy Shield by Winold Reiss. A fine copy, as new. This heavy oversized book will require extra shipping. "Collector and historian Thomas Minckler spent a half century gathering 19th and early… Read more about this item Item Price
$105.00
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The Writings of John Muir (Manuscript Edition, complete in 10 volumes)
by Muir, John
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- First Edition Thus, Limited No. 711 of 750 copies
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- 1924
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Monterey, California, USA
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$10,500.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. First Edition Thus, Limited No. 711 of 750 copies. With 9-line manuscript leaf by the author, with ink corrections.The leaf is from Muir's book "The Mountains of California." Edited by William Frederic Bade. The first eight volumes are extra-illustrated with hand-colored frontispieces with tissue guards. Each volume also includes frontispiece photogravures with tissueguards; numerous photogravures… Read more about this item Item Price
$10,500.00
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Bill Carlisle Lone Bandit: An Autobiography (INSCRIBED)
by Bill Carlisle; J. R. Williams
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- 1946
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Monterey, California, USA
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$158.00
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Pasadena, CA: Trail's End Publishing Co, 1946. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Bill Carlisle. 8vo. 220 pp. Illustrations by Charles Russell. Map endpapers by Charles Ellsworth. Introduction by J. R. Williams; Preface by Homer Britzman. Red cloth with gilt lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy. "This is the honest autobiography of the last of the lone train robbers,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Texans: A History of Negros in Texas, 1528-1971
by Barr, Alwyn
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- First Edition
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- 1973
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Monterey, California, USA
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$263.00
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Austin, TX: Jenkins Publishing, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. 259, [15] pp. Index. Photo-illustrated plates. Orange cloth in black & orange dustjacket. A fine copy, with a hint of wear to dustjacket extremities. According to Jenkins #10, here is "The best summation of Texas black history...the only published work covering the whole of the black experience in Texas...will long remain… Read more about this item Item Price
$263.00
Our National Parks
by Muir, John
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- New and Enlarged Edition, Fully Illustrated
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- 1909
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Monterey, California, USA
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$788.00
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1909. New and Enlarged Edition, Fully Illustrated. Octavo; [xiv]; 382pp. 32 captioned photographic plates, including frontispiece portrait of John Muir in Muir Woods in 1909 after photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. Map and Tables by Allen Chamberlain. Index to Map; General Index. Gilt decorated blue cloth with pictorial color image of Yosemite Falls on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Texas Cowboys
by Dane Coolidge
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- First Edition
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- 1937
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Monterey, California, USA
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$210.00
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New York: Dutton, 1937. First Edition. 8vo. 162 pp. With 31 photographs taken "from the saddle", by the author. Review copy, with publisher's review slip tipped in. Orange cloth in illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (darkening to spine; minor wear to extremities). The author, posing as a professional photographer, spent many exciting months following round-ups,… Read more about this item Item Price
$210.00
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Mean As Hell (SIGNED)
by Dee Harkey
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- First Edition, First Issue
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- 1948
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Monterey, California, USA
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$394.00
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Albuquerque, NM: University Of New Mexico Press, 1948. First Edition, First Issue. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 223 pp. Index. 3 photographic plates of Charles R. Brice, Chief Justice of New Mexico, who was saved from assassination by Harkey; The End of Jim Miller and friends, hung by a mob at Ada, Oklahoma; and D. R. (Dee) Karkey, who… Read more about this item Item Price
$394.00
Frederick W. Lander and the Lander Trail (SIGNED, The Oregon trail: Book 1)
by Wight, Jermy Benton
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- First Edition
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- 1993
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Monterey, California, USA
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$53.00
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Bedford, WY: Star Valley Llama, 1993. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 4to. 102, [59] pp. 3 fold-out maps; illustrations, appendices. Stiff illustrated softcover in fine condition, as new. The road west -- Frederick William Lander -- 1857 the year of resolution -- The turning point -- On the road -- Tales of the trail -- 1859-1860 -- The… Read more about this item Item Price
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Red Cloud's Folk (SIGNED Author's copy)
by Hyde, George E.
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- First Edition
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- 1937
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- Paperback
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Monterey, California, USA
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$263.00
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Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1937. First Edition. Paperback. The author has penned "#2 of 2 author's copies. George E. Hyde" to preliminary and rear pages. Octavo; xii, 331, [1]pp. Yapped edges have 1/4" tears to the grey card wrappers. No doubt an Advance Copy (the card covers are unprinted and stapled, rather than sewn). Minor wear; else… Read more about this item Item Price
$263.00
Jim Miller: The Untold Story of a Texas Badman (SIGNED)
by James, Bill C.
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- 1989
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- Hardcover
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Monterey, California, USA
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$131.00
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Wolfe City TX: Henington Publishing Company, 1989. Hardcover. SIGNED 'Bill James 1995' on preliminary page. Octavo; x, 79pp; bibliography, epilogue, photographs. A Fine copy in black cloth; front cover and spine lettered in silver. Jim Miller had been town marshal in Pecos, Texas (of Billie Sol Estes fame!) as well as being married to a daughter of a cousin… Read more about this item Item Price
$131.00
An Island Kingdom Passes - Hawaii Becomes American
by Mellen, Kathleen Dickenson
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- First Edition
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- 1958
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Monterey, California, USA
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$79.00
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New York: Hastings House, 1958. First Edition. 8vo. 387 pp. Glossary. Photo-illustrated plates. Blue cloth, map endpapers, in color illustrated dustjacket. Dampstaining to lower cloth covers else near fine in very good dustjacket (light wear and chips to extremities, moreso to spine ends; two small dampstains to lower spine). The concluding fourth volume in the author's epic saga of… Read more about this item Item Price
$79.00
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Our National Parks
by Muir, John
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- Limited Edition #384 of 750 copies
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- 1916
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Monterey, California, USA
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$840.00
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1916. Limited Edition #384 of 750 copies. Volume VI of The Manuscript edition of "The Writings of John Muir" published in 10 volumes. 8vo; [xiv]; 399; [1] pp. 32 captioned photographic plates, including frontispiece portrait of Mount Hoffman after photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. Map and Tables by Allen Chamberlain. Index to Map; General… Read more about this item Item Price
$840.00
