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Circa 1890s-early 1900s Collection of Thirteen Handwritten Letters to Judge R.E. Hendry and Ed C. Baker of Mineral Wells, Texas, all sent from Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma
by [R.E. Hendry; Ed C. Baker]
Indian Territory or Oklahoma Territory, now present-day State of Oklahoma. 1892-1904. 13 ALsS, approx. [18] manuscript pages in all. See individual descriptions below. Folds; some scattered minor losses, stains, or tears; overall good to very good. Collection of letters relating to business transactions and the selling or administering of real estate in the 1890s and early 1900s. All the letters are addressed to two men in Mineral Wells, Texas, Judge R.E. Hendry and Ed C. Baker, all of whose...
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$450.00
A matter of Black and White; the autobiography of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, foreword by Robert Henry
by Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel, with Danney Goble
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. xix, 204p., first printing, dj. Autobiography of the Black woman whose suit to enter the University of Oklahoma law school triggered much of the NAACP's legal strategy around the issue - and whose perseverance led her to become a regent at the university that had rejected her.
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$15.00
Special Map of LeFlore County, Oklahoma
by [Oklahoma]
McAlester, Ok: McAlester Real Estate Exchange, 1920. Very good.. Printed map, 19 x 12 inches. Original folds, minor dust soiling and edge wear, two tiny expert repairs to strengthen folds on verso. A seemingly unrecorded real estate promotional cadastral map of LeFlore County, Oklahoma produced by the McAlester Real Estate Exchange. LeFlore County is located in the east-central portion of Oklahoma on the border with Arkansas. The county is bounded in the north by the Arkansas River (with the map also...
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$850.00
![Special Map of McCurtain County, Okla. [with plat map]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/610/163/1424163610.0.b.jpg)
Special Map of McCurtain County, Okla. [with plat map]
by [Oklahoma]
McAlester, Ok: McAlester Real Estate Exchange, 1910. Very good.. Two maps, 18 x 12.25 & 13.75 x 8.5 inches. Folded. Light wear and a couple of small chips at edges. Occasional dust soiling. A few contemporary manuscript and typed annotations. A pair of ephemeral promotional maps from the McAlester Real Estate Exchange, offering a plot of 156 acres for sale in central McCurtain County, Oklahoma, nine miles east of the small settlement of Sherwood. One map delineates the plat of the entire southeastern...
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$850.00
![[Large Group of Rare Albumen Photographs, Mounted on Linen, Many Captioned, Featuring Native Americans of the Western Plains]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/246/815/1535815246.0.b.jpg)
[Large Group of Rare Albumen Photographs, Mounted on Linen, Many Captioned, Featuring Native Americans of the Western Plains]
by [Native American Photographica]. [Great Plains]
[Various locations, mostly Indian Territory, Kansas, and Nebraska, 1890. Good.. 127 albumen photographs, measuring between 3.75 x 2.75 inches and 8 x 5 inches, most around 5.5 x 4 inches, all but two affixed to original linen mounts, about half captioned in pencil on the mounts, a handful captioned in the negative. A well-worn collection of images, with occasional fading, and all of the images exhibiting varying levels of dust-soiling and staining to the images and mounts, about twenty-five exhibiting...
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$37500.00
A FIELD GUIDE TO AMPHIBIANS OF OKLAHOMA
by Black, Jeffrey H. & Sievert, Gregory
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. Very Good. 1989. Paperback. 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 80 pages .
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$23.00
![Peace poems with rhyme [cover title] ..wirh rhyme, rhythm, and reason [title page]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/810/814/695814810.0.b.jpg)
Peace poems with rhyme [cover title] ..wirh rhyme, rhythm, and reason [title page]
by Shumake, Thelma [Knight]
no place (Berkeley/Oakland): author, 1967. 51p., reproduced from typescript, staplebound wraps lightly worn; label pasted inside front cover indicating this copy was distributed in connection with her 1984 funeral in Oklahoma. With a biographical sketch of the activist poet by Shirley Lee & Hilda Cowan, p.22.
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$15.00
Osage County Profiles
by Betty White Smith, Editor
Pawhuska, OK: Osage County Historical Society, 1978 Osage County Historical Society, Pawhuska, OK. 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head, tail, and upper tips; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Maroon leatherette boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board with society emblem in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. 567 pp 4to. The book is divided up into sections; History Book Committees,...
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$350.01
The well, vol. 1, no. 4 (August 23, 1971)
Oklahoma City: The New Well, Inc, 1971. Newspaper. 19p., folded tabloid newsprint; illus., photos., a Gilbert Shelton comic, evenly toned, in very good condition.
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$35.00
Femme noir
by Nipper, Clara
N. pl: Alpha World Press, 2007. Paperback. 249p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Lesbian mystery, set in Los Angeles and Tulsa.
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$12.00
Calendar of Annual events in Oklahoma sponsored by the Oklahoma State Travel and Tourist Bureau
by Thompson, Jim, sketches by Wallace Simpson and Walker Boone, written and arranged by Federal Writers' Project of Oklahoma, Works Progress Administration in the State of Oklahoma
[n.p.]: The Tribune Pub. Co, 1938. [36p.] 6.25x9.5 inches, illustrations, tissue-guards, stapled text-block very good in badly chipped orange pictorial wraps, detached but present, with rear wrap missing most of the outer edges but with images intact. American Guide Series. This item is always heavily chipped if the wraps are even present. Jim Thompson is listed as the Director on the title page and this publication precedes his better-known hard-boiled detective novels. Very scarce.
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$300.00
A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma
by Wright, Muriel H
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. 300 pp, with illustrations, index, in original green cloth boards. Mild spine slant, rubbing to spine ends and edges, name stamped in ink on front pastedown. Dust jacket is rubbed at corners and folds and has some internal tape reinforcements, as well as a small spot of white-out on front flap. Number 33 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series. "Lists alphabetically the tribes within the state--twenty-nine of...
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$45.00
Pioneer Days with the Osage Indians West of '96
by Finney, T.M
[Bartlesville, Ok, 1925. Very good.. 48pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Very light creasing and wear to wraps. Contemporary pencil annotations. Light tanning internally. An early, anecdotal history of the Osage Reservation, written by Thomas McKean Finney, a former Indian trader and longtime resident of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Finney was a descendant of Declaration signer and Pennsylvania governor Thomas McKean. He arrived in the Indian Territory in 1873 at the age of seventeen and...
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$450.00
Red Yesterdays
by Shirley, Glennd
Wichita Falls, TX: Nortex Press. Cloth - Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Copyright is 1977. 298 pages. Signed "Sincerely / Glenn Shirley" on blank front free end page. Cloth covers are just a little mottled and there are a couple of small stains on top edge of text block. Volume is otherwise tight and clean. Price clipped dust jacket shows small stains on very edge over top cover, and two very small tears over head of spine. Jacket is otherwise clean and intact, and is now protected in...
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$30.00
Women Writers in McFarlin Special Collections First series
Tulsa: University of Tulsa Press, 1985. Paperback. 125p., very good paperback in gray embossed printed wraps.
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$15.00
The Boys From the Bushes; From the Oklahoma Bush Tracks to the Big Apple
by Lou Dean
Oklahoma City, OK : Oklahoma Heritage Association , 2014 Oklahoma Heritage Association, Oklahoma City, OK. 2014. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated 2nd Printing. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bump to lower front tip. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 272 pp 8vo. This book presents the stories of 30 incredible men and women who as children began competitive horse racing on makeshift tracks in pastures that became...
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$28.57
This Book, This Hill, These People; Poems by Lynn Riggs
by Riggs, Lynn
Tulsa, OK: Lynn Chase Publishing Company, 1982. Paperback. 64p. staplebound booklet, very good, signed by editor Phyllis Braunlich. " A Diamond Jubilee Memorial to Oklahoma's Outstanding Poet-Playwright." Riggs, who was gay and of Cherokee descent, was the author of "Green Grow the Lilacs" in 1931, which was the basis for "Oklahoma!
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$30.00
The Fifties (1952-1960), Volume V, The Grayt Book Series: Notes of Mary Leta Gray from her home On the Chisholm Trail; Renewing Old Memories in Enid, America
by Gray, Robert N
Enid, OK: The Sons and Daughters of the Cherokee Strip Pioneers / Museum of the Cherokee Strip, 2000. 448 pages. Signed and dated by the author on the half title page. Unfortunately, there is a previous owner's ink address stamp on the same page, though near the bottom. Covers show very slight corner curl. Volume is otherwise tight and very clean. . Signed by the Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket.
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$25.00
![[Photograph of Native American and Osage Chief Bacon Rind, i.e, Wah-she-hah or "Star-That-Travels".]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/858/572/1321572858.0.b.jpg)
[Photograph of Native American and Osage Chief Bacon Rind, i.e, Wah-she-hah or "Star-That-Travels".]
by [Bacon Rind (c.1860-1932), (Wah-she-hah, "Star-That-Travels")]
[Np, c.1920s-1930s]. Sepia-tone photograph. 5 x 3½ inches. Ink manuscript caption on verso. Lower corners slightly bumped; trimmed at bottom edge; very good. Snapshot photograph of Native American Bacon Rind (c.1860-1932), Osage tribal leader and keeper of traditional customs and costume. The photo depicts Bacon Rind in native dress and wearing the traditional otter-skin cap he always wore. He appears to be accompanied by two other Native Americans in non-native attire. A caption on the back of the...
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$150.00
![General Convention of Oklahoma Indians [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/972/323/1565323972.0.b.jpg)
General Convention of Oklahoma Indians [wrapper title]
by [Oklahoma]. [Native Americans]
[Tulsa, Ok, 1924. Very good plus.. 23pp., plus halftone portrait frontispiece and a plate reproducing a letter by S.J. Soldani at rear. Original red pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor rubbing to front wrapper, small bump to bottom edge of rear wrapper. Internally clean. A rare pamphlet containing the proceedings and a fair amount of the text of the speeches (or excerpts thereof) made at the General Convention of Oklahoma Indians, held at the Brady Hotel in Tulsa on February 26, 1924. The convention...
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$850.00
Poems and Editorials of Arthur Hurt Taylor
by [Arthur Hurt Taylor (1880-1917)]
[Jackson, Miss.: Tucker Printing House (1928)]. 36pp. 7¾ x 5¼ inches. Quarter cloth and patterned, paper-covered boards with title label. Some browning to boards; small corner loss to one leaf; very good. First and sole edition of this memorial collection of writings by teacher, soldier, poet, and journalist, Arthur Hurt Taylor. Among Hart's editorials printed here are "On the Hearing of the Death of Joel Chandler Harris" and "Jack Canuck and the Great War." A native of Lodi, Mississippi, Taylor...
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$150.00
![[Scrapbook of Berta Abrams' Junior and Senior Years at Central High School, of Marlow, Oklahoma, with Numerous Photographs, Inscriptions, and Ephemera]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/373/548/1413548373.0.b.jpg)
[Scrapbook of Berta Abrams' Junior and Senior Years at Central High School, of Marlow, Oklahoma, with Numerous Photographs, Inscriptions, and Ephemera]
by [Oklahoma]. [Women]
[Marlow, Ok, 1928. About very good.. Oblong large octavo album with sixty leaves, containing 105 original photographs in varying small formats, many cut to size, plus hundreds of printed ephemera, manuscript annotations, tipped-in letters, and additional realia. Stiff leatherette covers, string-tied. Moderate wear to corners, light rubbing to covers. Photos and ephemera affixed directly to album leaves. Light wear to individual items, some photos torn to fit available space. Album leaves somewhat...
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$575.00
Ten political ribbons for Henry W. Scott, candidate in 1890 for Kansas judge, and later Oklahoma Territory Supreme Court associate justice
by [Henry W. Scott]
[Kansas, 1890]. Each printed on silk, approx. 6 x 2¼ inches. In five color-ways: pink, cream, mauve, pale green, and golden yellow. Some creasing; overall, very good. Ten political campaign ribbons for independent candidate Henry Wilson Scott (1866-1935)-"The People's Candidate"-running in 1890 for judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District in Kansas. The then-sitting Register of the Larned land office, Scott lost his Fall election by only five votes. After taking time that winter to finish his book,...
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$250.00
![[Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Life of an Oklahoma Family Mostly at Home, But Also on Vacation in California in the Early 20th Century]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/066/211/1476211066.0.b.jpg)
[Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Life of an Oklahoma Family Mostly at Home, But Also on Vacation in California in the Early 20th Century]
by [Oklahoma Photographica]. [Harris, Mr. and Mrs. A.P.]
[Elk City, Ok., and various locations in California, 1919. Good plus.. [46] leaves, illustrated with 103 photographs, mostly black and white or sepia-toned, but also including twelve cyanotypes and some photo postcards, almost all mounted but with a few detached or loose, measuring between 1.25 x 1.25 and 7 x 5 inches. A handful with manuscript annotations, and some manuscript text on verso of detached photographs. Oblong small octavo. Contemporary patterned faux-alligator skin gray paper over boards....
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$950.00
Telephone Directory McAlester, Okla. Fall and Winter, 1920
by [Oklahoma]
[Oklahoma City?]: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co, 1920. Very good.. [36]pp. Original printed card covers, stapled. Light wear and soiling, especially to lower corner. Small tape reinforcement to rear lower corner. Some minor foxing to contents. An early telephone directory for the little Oklahoma town of McAlester -- the largest town inside the Choctaw Nation -- published little more than a decade after Oklahoma statehood. The directory provides a single alphabetical listing of residences and...
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$950.00
