Search Results: Dakotas from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Bismarck, 1922, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Gilt-stamped cloth. 114pp. Illust/photos. Marbled endpapers. Partially affixed & folded on front paste down is a T.L.S. (typed letter signed) by Crawford on the letterhead of The Industrial Commission of North Dakota" of which Crawford was Secretary. Obituary of Crawford partially affixed to back of letterhead on folded part. The letter was to Kara Dickinson, City Auditor of Minot, N. D. & is dated Jan. 10, 1923. Wear to spine extremities. Near vg. Privately printed & very scarce. By the author of the later book, Rekindling Campfires. Herd 604.

Pierre: South Dakota State Highway Commission, 1940. First Thus. Soft cover. Good. 1st printing thus, circa 1940 when Bushfield was governor. 4to pictorial color wraps. (20pp). Illustrated with b/w photos. Center page article on Mt. Rushmore shows incomplete state of the four presidents & various scaffolding; close-ups of work in small photos. This copy good: folded, back cover with triangle crease. Scarce.

NY: Vanguard, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 1st printing. Library cloth binding. 320pp. Illus. Index. Ex-library reading copy with rear free endpaper torn off & large abrasion to ffep. Sound in its binding nevertheless.

Bismarck: State Hist. Soc. of North Dakota, 1946. First Thus. Soft cover. Good+. 1st thus. Reprint from volume of N. D. History. Printed wraps. 62pp. Illust. Bibliography. Folding map. Lower page & cover corners a little curled; good+. Herd 907.

Mandan: Mandan Historical Development Assoc, 1962. Soft cover. Fair. Original printing of fourth year program of the drama presented at Fort Lincoln State Park, near Mandan SD, and directed by George Poletes. Pictorial yellow wraps. 40pp. Illus. Map. Fair condition with extensive peeling of back cover mailing address area. I.e., the sizing of the paper is removed from much of the cover. Front cover wiith a couple of stains. Reading copy.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 317pp. Illustrated with drawings by John Mariani. Endpaper maps of the Dakota Reservation Range / 1904. The two back leaves, one a blank & the other the free endpaper, are creased vertically. Else fine in near fine, price-clipped dj. A classic of the cattle country. Scarce now in 1st edition.

Billings: Falcon Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to brown faux hard leather, gilt-stamped. 89pp. Photo credits. Fine color photos of the Dakotas.

Bismarck: n.p., 1961. First Edition. Soft cover. Fair. Original special issue newspaper issued Feb. 28, 1961. Publisher not identified but undoubtedly a major paper most likely in North Dakota, from the ads. 32pp. Size opened: 30" x 23.5" -- a huge paper. Many historical articles dating back to Lewis & Clark. Frontier & Indian history. Lots of period ads. Browning & some edge tears & an interior tear or two. Can be read with care. Fair condition.

Fargo: n.p., 1950. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good+. 1st printing. Pictorial 4to wraps. 136pp. Illus. Lots of ads. Excellent 75th anniversary book. Full-length portraits of Ms. Fargo Diamond Jubilee, Marvel Rudolph, and Miss Red River Valley, Mary Koehler. Light soiling. Vg+. Scarce.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 280pp. Illus. Warmly inscribed by "The Author" to Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Irish. Frontispiece is portrait of Lampman on horseback on Lampman Brothers Ranch in North Dakota. Fine. No dj. Very scarce. Herd 1302.

Minn., 1946, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Pictorial cloth. 354pp. Illust. Bibliography. Index. fos. Good history of the upper Missouri. Fur trade, Indian Wars, cattle country, etc. Bindery crease to upper corner of 3 pages near front, else fine in slightly edgeworn dj. 6-guns 1598, Herd 1626.

Norman: OU, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 282pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Map. Signed by Dresden on the ffep. Fine in dj.

Norman: OU, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 282pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Map. Fine in dj which has a tiny tear on back panel.

Washington: Robert Farnham, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st printing. Hardcover, blind-stamped paper over boards. 215pp + 1p ads. Goodspeed said, "An early Minnesota book and, aside from Government surveys, one of the earliest accounts of Dakota before its establishment as a territory." Bibliographically noted is that there was apparently a map in a later edition; not in the 1st edit, although Howes A253 claims one. Wear to top backstrip; minor wear to other extremities. Vg. Very scarce.

State Library Commission, Bismarck, 1962, 1962. First Thus. Soft cover. Fine. Decorated wraps. 32pp. + 10pp supplement. Frontispiece of Commission building. Fine. Apparently scarce.

St. Paul: Smalley, E. V. (Editor) and Northern Pacific Railroad, 1894. First Thus. Soft cover. Collectible Good. Vol. XIII, No. #11. St. Paul. Original issue. Folio 13 1/2" x 10 ¼". Illustrated. Abundant adds. The Northern Pacific used this publication to promote western lands and progress. Articles: "A Trooper's Life," " A French Village in Manitoba," "Minnesota for Farming Settlement,", "Solid St. Paul," etc., thus showing the railroad promoted their interests both south and north of the border with Canada. Inside is a short report on wild horses. On an inside photograph has been stamped in purple ink a Northern Pacific Railroad stamp bearing the name of passenger agent Wm. N. Mears, Boston. This copy good with cover splits at fold about 3" both top and bottom. Short edge tears. Slightly soiled.

Norman: OU, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 217pp. Illus. Index. Fine moderately edgeworn, pc dj. 6-guns 2459, Herd 2568.

St. Paul, 1920, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. Gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. 432pp. "Illustrated from photographs by D.F Barry, the Noted Indian Photographer." Decorated endpapers. In back is a folding 9"x 12" map of the Dakotas, Wyoming, & most of Nebraska & Montana, with a long tear repaired with archival filmoplast tape. This book contains material on a lot of subjects & people: Fur Trade, George Catlin, Sioux Massacre of 1862, Yellowstone & Black Hills Expeditions, Battle of Little Big Horn, Capture of Rain-in-the-Face, Railroads, Teddy Roosevelt, Vigilantes, & more. Hinges professionally repaired. Gilt on the spine is fairly dull. A nearly very good copy of a very scarce item. Herd 2335, 6-guns 2242.

Wash D. C.: Dept of Interior, 1954. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 114pp. Illustrated with drawings by Andrew Standing Soldier. Bi-lingual reader with Sioux text by Emil Afraid-of-Hawk. Signed on the front cover by Dorothea Esing, whom I was told was a descendant of Zachary Taylor. A Sioux Indian reader. Near fine. Scarce.

Webster: First Nat'l Bank, 1922. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing thus. Printed wraps.100pp. Index. Various banks had their local imprint on different copies. Bottom one-half of front cover split, but archivally repaired. Pulpy, but still flexible papers. We still call this copy vg.