Search Results: Mountain West from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Denver: The Westerners, 1946. Popular Edition." Octavo (24cm). Blue and white paper-covered boards; [xiv],251,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Lightly rubbed, front joint tender and cracking, spine sunned, internally clean: around Very Good. Contains 12 articles on various topics, including Beadle's Dime Novels, the mustang, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, the Mecker Massacre, and "Early Cowboy Days in Wyoming." [62119].

Location not stated [See description]: Publisher not stated, 1971. Edition not stated. Octavo (17.5cm); brown publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine; 160pp, frontis., 2 plates. Boards moderately worn, especially about extremities; rear panel soiled; spine sunned, with somewhat faded gilt and torn top joint; front pastedown detached from textblock; interiors show some soiling and creasing to edges; signed and inscribed by the author on dedication page (dated May 1874). Overall Very Good. Colonel Arthur T. Lee had a long and storied career in the U.S. Army. He is especially noted for his art; during his service at Fort Davis, he produced many sketches of the area, thus creating an early visual document of the American southwest. Lee illustrated two b/w plates and the frontispiece for this volume of his poetry, which examines the lot of the soldier (of the day) through lyric and rhyme; he also provides a section of footnotes. No publication information is listed in this book, save the… Read More

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1909. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Gilt-titled blue cloth with small pictorial device to front board and spine; x,387pp; photographic frontispiece (portrait) and 10 inserted leaves of plates reproducing pen-and-ink illustrations by I.W. Taber; text illus. A pretty copy, straight and tight, with faint evidence of an old glue repair to front hinge (internal). The author was married to Lt. Col. (U.S. Infantry) Fayette Washington Roe (1850-1916). The text covers the period of Roe's service in the American West, including Colorado and Utah Territories. "While her husband's career has been described as 'unremarkable,' Roe continues to be known on the basis of her book for the accurate picture of Army life it painted...Roe's was the first documented use of the name...Buffalo Soldiers" to describe the African-American infantry and cavalrymen in the west [Wikipedia, "Frances M.A. Roe," 7/2022]. HOWES R-403.

Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1867. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Brown cloth stamped in gilt; brown coated endpapers; [vi],i-xvi [17]-572pp; folding map, decorative title page by Thomas Nast, and black and white illustrations throughout. Bookplate of Irene Stillman. Externally rubbed and edgeworn, hinges cracked, with forward roll: Good or better. Published by subscription.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); mustard yellow pictorial cloth, stamped in brown, in pictorial dustwrapper; 189pp. Dustwrapper toned, with mild soiling and edgewear; heel and crown of spine slightly chipped. Spot of foxing on textblock fore edge, else interiors unblemished and sound. Very Good or Better. It's time for more action and adventure from Stephen W. Meader, this time tracking the story of Jeff Barlow, an Illinois farm boy who goes to spend his sixteenth winter trapping varmints in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, becoming a grizzled mountain man and successful deerskin painter by the end of it—I guess it's what all the kids were doing back in those days. With Charles Beck's b/w text-illustrations throughout. Other advertised Meader books on dustwrapper and within are consistent with this 1960 first edition date.

Philadelphia: American Arms Publishing Co, 1902. Octavo (19cm). Green cloth stamped in brown and white; green and white patterned endpapers; 284pp. Bookplate of the War Service Library; Library of Congress stamp to t.p. verso; multiple ownership marks to front blank. A straight copy, rubbed at edges, titling partly rubbed away on spine, sewing slightly loosened, overall Very Good. A guide to military camping and travel in the American West, originally published in 1881 as Mountain Scouting. Includes a section on Chinook Jargon. HOWES F56.

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1969. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (30cm). Brown and cream pictorial paper-covered boards; [xii],145,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Bumped at corners, else clean and sturdy: Very Good. Geological Survey Professional Paper 669. "A collection of papers honoring Powell on the 100th anniversary of his exploration of the Colorado River, 1869-1969."With articles by Mary C. Rabbitt, Edwin D. McKee, Charles B. Hunt, and Luna B. Leopold. [63822].

Omaha: Overland Publishing Co, 1881. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (27cm). Red paper over boards, stamped in gilt and blind; plain endpapers printed with advertisements; [vi],[23]-183,[1]pp; additional advertisements at rear; folding hand-colored map (detached but present), frontispiece, extensive black and white wood engravings, with folding hand-colored map. Solid but rubbed at edges, with chips at head and tail, internally uniformly toned, folding map neatly detached, with chip to one margin, else whole: Very Good. Extensive traveler's guide to Colorado, including railway information, details of sites and scenes, "nearly one hundred illustrations, and the best map of Colorado ever published" (preface). The notable map by Louis Nell ("Nell's New Topographical and Township Map of Colorado") also includes a view of Leadville, CO, and a railway travel scene on the verso. The "artotype" forntispiece (likely a collotype) depicts 12 "Belles of Colorado," one of them Native American. Though the… Read More

Window Rock, AZ: United States Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Navajo Service, 1941. First Edition. Small quarto (26.25cm); mimeographed sheets, printed recto and verso and side-stapled into illustrated wrappers; [vi], 180pp, [20]; illus. Former owner's name in ink to front wrapper, with chipping, thin splits, and short tears to same; thin, vertical paint streak to rear wrapper; text remains fresh and clean; Very Good. Guide book and gazeteer of the Navajo country and adjacent regions compiled by Richard Fowler Van Valkenburgh, a former Bureau of Indian Affairs worker and long-time archeological assistant with the L.A. County Museum of History, Art and Science. Contains a 4pp key to the Navajo alphabet (palatalization and labialization), an extensive list of Navajo place names, providing detailed information regarding their origins, history, and significance. Illustrated throughout with maps drawn by Charles Keetsie Shirley. Scarce in commerce.

Boise: Idaho State Historical Society, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; 227pp; illus. Tight, square copy with a few tiny spots of soil to covers; Near Fine.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth linen spine over red cloth-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; map endpapers; 251pp; 4 inserted leaves of unnumbered plates; includes bibliography. Gentle rubbing to bottom board edges, else a tight, clean copy, about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95 on front flap); very slightly sunned on spine panel, with minute wear at head and heel, else crisp and clean; Near Fine. Detailed account by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of Fort Kearny, Wyoming and the so-called "Fetterman Massacre" of 1866.

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1923. Second Edition. With complete index. Octavo (20.5cm). Red cloth stamped in gilt; [ii],217,[5]pp; 10 halftone plates. Erasure to halftitle; 1944 ownership inscription to title page. Sound, lightly rubbed and spine-sunned, last few leaves rippled: Very Good. COWAN pp.417-18.

New York: American Labor Education Service, 1957. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Side-stapled sheets; 21pp. Near Fine. Proceedings of a seminar conducted under the sponsorship of the American Labor Education Service (ALES) and the Northwest Education Conference of Farmers and Workers. Introduction signed in type by Chester A. Graham, "Field Associate." Graham (1892-1980) a long-time labor and pacifist activist; in addition to his work for ALES in the Fifties, he was a prominent field organizer for the National Farmers Union during and after WW2; his papers are held by the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1882. Octavo (23cm). In red orange publisher's cloth, boards bevelled, titled in gilt on spine; brown coated endpapers; [1-4] 5-188, [2]; one-page prospectus requesting subscribers for McCook's next work, on American Spiders; 13 tinted lithographs, depicting ants and ant habitats. A straight copy, rubbed, especially at extremities, spine darkened, both hinges cracked through and glued; text somewhat browned, but plates bright: Good. An early account of the social habits of American ants, based on research trips to Colorado, Nebraska, and elsewhere in the American West.

Chicago: Donohue Brothers, [n.d.]. Reprint. Octavo (19cm). Blue cloth series binding stamped in green and black; vi,ix-[xviii],9-306pp; frontispiece and relief illustrations. Sound, edges rubbed, internally very browned and brittle, rear hinge cracked through but holding: just Very Good. Shields was the editor of the outdoor sports magazine Recreation, where he wrote under the pseudonym Coquina. #61866.

Spokane: Privately Printed (C.W. Hill Printing Co), 1961. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; xiv,469pp; portr. frontispiece, 16 leaves of photographic plates, all inserted ahead of text. Covers slightly dusty, contents clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. Somewhat uncommon local history of Native American conflict in Eastern Washington, written from a perspective highly sympathetic to the native tribes. The author was long-time Superior Court judge for Okanogan and Ferry Counties (Washington).

Albany: John Skinner, 1893. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (20cm). Taupe cloth stamped in black and grey; plain endpapers; 101,[1]pp; frontispiece. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Bumped at corners, frayed at spine ends, minor dustsoil to cloth, but internally clean: Very Good. Civil War memoir, incluing "campaigns in Wyoming after the Civil War." HOWES L418.

Norwich, CT: The Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1887. First Edition. Thick octavo (24cm); contemporary tan calf; red and dark brown morocco spine labels; all edges marbled; xxxvi, 715pp, frontispiece. Amateur repairs to backstrip and textblock preliminaries. Original leather shows some scratches, abrasions and wear; extremities rubbed with material loss. Minor soiling and foxing throughout textblock; over 350 b/w text-illustrations and maps. Overall Very Good, sound. It would seem a sign of the times that we might now describe some of the "Marvels" detailed in this book as the "Old West". However, in 1887, the lands west of the Missouri still held the promise of adventure and discovery, as well as opportunity. This book, containing six volumes, covers the marvels of nature, race, enterprise, mining, stock-raising, and agriculture. While fascinating and evocative (including a breathtakingly inaccurate account of the Donner Party incident), it is unfortunately imbued with the Anglo-Saxon supremacist… Read More

Missoula: Montana Medical Association / Montana State University Press, 1962. Octavo (24cm). Red and cream cloth in red dust jacket; cartographic endpapers; [xxii],564pp; black and white illustrations. Pushed at head and tail, else clean and firm: Near Fine. Jacket rubbed with short tears at top: Very Good. [63934].

Tinmath, CO: The Columbine Club of Timnath, [c. 1925]. First Edition. 12mo. Textured cloth hardcover, titled in silver on front cover; 57pp; frontispiece illus. Tight and unworn, Near Fine; with ownership signature inside front cover ("Knoebel's"), dated 1943. A scarce privately-published account of early settlement in the region of Larimer County, Colorado, where the author's family settled beginning in 1860. In addition to standard descriptions of early churches, schools, and prominent citizens, includes accounts of conflicts with the Kiowa under the leadership of Black Kettle, and a quite detailed account of the killing of Tom Burris, "a notorious character," by a rival horse thief. Not in Six-Guns; OCLC notes ten physical locations only.