Search Results: North America - South West from Texas Star Books

Albuquerque, NM: Univesity of New Mexico, 1960. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 132 pp. Tight copy with bumping on corners and spine ends. Foxing on top page edge and interior pages have occasional faint foxing/spotting. Else clean interior. No dust jacket.

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. First Edition . Pictorial Covers. Very Good+/Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Group of 2 books on Powell and the Grand Canyon. First, "The Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell","A collection of papers honoring Powell on the 100th anniversary of his exploration of the Colorado River, 1869 - 1969", with four different articles. Oversize format, 9 1/4"W X 11 3/4"H. 145 pp. Boards have graphic of Grand Canyon in brown monochrome. Very slight right lean. Corners and spine ends have bumping. Top corner of front free end paper has previous owner's name stamped in blue ink, and a penciled number on top near gutter. End papers have a little discoloration. Clean text block. Second book is stapled trade paperback, "John Wesley Powell and the Anthropology of the Canyon Country", 30 pp. 9"W X 11 1/2"H. Front wrap has same graphic of the canyon with previous… Read More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vol. 1, Southwestern Enterprises 1840-1847 (1941) 413 pp.; Vol. 2, Excursions in Mexico & California 1847-1850 (1944) 396 pp. Both with introduction by Paul Horgan. Ex-Library copies with library stamps, pockets and markings. Vol. 1 has some spotting to boards. Tight with otherwise clean interior.

Albany, TX: Bright Sky Press, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Shaw. Fort Worth writer joins with Texas illustrator, Charles Shaw, in this clever children's story about a southwestern icon, the horned toad. Aimed at 9 - 12 year olds. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. 48 pp. New, crisp and bright copy, as is the dust jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Pr, 1998. 1st Ed., 2nd Ptg. . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 199 pp. EX-LIB with clean text block and minimum library markings. Dust jacket is in protective cover NOT taped to boards of book.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. 116 pp. Light tan linen boards are clean, crisp and bright with very minor wear on edges. Appears unread. Dust jacket is crisp with a little wear on spine ends and some rubbing on cream color of back of dust jacket. Very nice copy.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University, 1974. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good++/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Subtitled, "Readings in Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ethnology". 1st Ed. 1st Ptg. 178 pp. Crisp and bright copy with minor wear to boards. Previous owner's name on front free end paper and on dedication page. Else clean interior. Bright orange dust jacket with black print and design - light wear - spine is slightly sun faded. Very nice copy.

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. 279 pp. Tight and bright copy with minor corner and spine end wear. Dust jacket is bright and crisp - laminate at bottom edge of front panel is separating. Now in protective cover.

Forth Worth, Texas, U.S.A.: Texas Christian Univ Pr, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. 286 pp. Crisp bright and tight copy with clean interior. Top page edge has very minor soiling. Dust jacket is bright and clean - in protective cover.