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Lubbock: Book Club of Texas, 1998 2 volumes. First edition. Number 66 of 325 numbered copies beautifully designed and printed by Wind River Press, Austin. Folio. 15x10¾ inches. Pp. xi, 3, 275 + [3], 279-582 + colophon leaf in each volume. Printed in red and black. Color frontispiece in each volume plus 110 other maps printed in black & white. Extensive notes and bibliography, index, annotated map list in each volume. Half dark brown cloth, decorated boards, paper spine labels. A very fine, as new set with publisher's matching cloth slipcase (housed in the original shipping carton since issued). An in-depth study of the mapmakers and mapping of Texas and an excellent source book, each volume matched and beautifully designed. Jackson examines the mapping the interior of Texas by direct observation as opposed to maritime exploration..

Austin: Book Club of Texas, 1995 First edition. Number 64 of 350 numbered copies designed and printed by Wind River Press, Austin. Folio. 15x11 inches. xii, 225pp. Printed in red and black. Color frontispiece map and 65 other maps printed in black & white. Extensive notes and bibliography, list of maps. Half maroon cloth, printed paper spine label, decorated boards, paper spine label. A very fine, as new copy in the plain paper dust jacket. Excellent source book, beautifully designed, on the impact of the maps of Enriquez Barroto/Bisente of the Gulf of Mexico on European cartography in the early eighteenth century. Part II examines the maps produced by French exploration in Louisiana, focusing on the work of a virtually unknown engineer, Valentine Devin. The cartographic contribution of Devin and his fellow mapmakers in the colony enabled France to dominate the North American map trade long after France yielded its claims on the continent. Original prospectus laid in..

College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985 First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author. Octavo. Numerous illustrations by the author. Brown cloth with black lettering. Bottom corner and foot of spine lightly bumped, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Spine of jacket slightly faded. The memiors of an American artist living in a small Mexican village in the 1920's. .

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901 169pp. plus large folding map, numerous photographs. Original black cloth. A fine copy. One of Jackson's many reports on the subject. An important work written by the general agent of education in Alaska. Jackson worked to bring reindeer into Alaska to help natives become self-sufficient again. His annual reports cover almost every aspect of the developing herds and are full of information about native life, villages, whaling, Revenue Service ships, Indian totems, bands, schools, etc..

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985 First American. Oblong quarto. Hardcover. 240pp. Index. Illustrated with 180 color photographs. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A very fine copy with very fine pictorial dust jacket. This book complements one of the largest exhibitions ever mounted at The National Gallery of Art, Washington: "The Treasure Houses of Britain: 500 Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting"..

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1987 First edition. Oblong quarto. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Green cloth. A fine copy with dust jacket..

New York: Universe Books, Inc., 1967 Stated first printing. Sqaure octavo. 400 pages, 11 full page color plates, 13 full page black and white plates, 300 photographic portraits, 300 black and white reproductions. Black cloth with white lettering on spine and front cover. A fine copy in very lightly worn dust jacket. Reference of 300 19th and 20th century artists. Each entry, with texts in English, French and German, include a biographical sketch, selected bibliography, list of exhibitions, photograph of the artist, and a reproduction of one or more of his or her paintings..

Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea, 1823 First edition. 2 volumes. Pp. [4], 5, [3], 503 + [6], 442, xcviii. Lacking atlas volume (which is often the case). Later three-quarter leather, marbled boards, scattered light foxing, minor age-toning, contemporary owner's name. A very good, attractive set. This notable government expedition (commanded by Major Stephen H. Long) supplemented earlier discoveries of Pike and Lewis and Clark…" (Howes). Long was appointed by the government to explore the Yellowstone, but attempts to ascend the Missouri in a steamboat built for that purpose were unsuccessful. The expedition continued overland and finally crossed the plains through present-day Kansas and Colorado to the foot of the Front Range. The expedition failed to attain either of its objectives, reaching the headwaters of the Yellowstone and determining the sources of the Red River, but did add greatly to the geographical knowledge. This set contains the appendix, entitled Astronomical and… Read More

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1953 Part of the Lakeside Classics series. 12mo. xxxvi, [2], 297pp. Frontis portrait, plates, map; index. Dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. Remnants from removed bookplate on inner cover, else a fine copy. Includes an historical introduction and notes by Milo Milton Quaife. One of the earliest narratives of the fur trade. It covers the author's experiences on the upper Missouri in 1809, and an expedition to Santa Fé in 1821, one of the earliest trips over the Santa Fé Trail. The 1846 first edition was written from James' dictation by Nathan Niles, who, resenting local newspaper criticism, destroyed nearly all copies (Howes).This reprint contains a new historical introduction, numerous editorial footnotes, an index, and maps by Quaife, as well as reproducing early illustrations, all of which were not present in the original edition..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1967 Illustrations by Colleen Browning. Introduction by R.W. Stallman. Light purple cloth, lettered in gilt. Slight fading to spine, else a fine copy in slipcase. Minor fading to slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in.. Illus. by Browning, Colleen.

San Francisco: Printed for the author, 1955 One of 200 copies, numbered and SIGNED by the author, our copy being number "Eighty-five" (signed on last page). Printed by the Grabhorn Press. Quarto. Pp. [5], [6]-25. Title in red and black, pagination in red. Woodcut by Mallette Dean. Printed on English handmade paper. Green cloth, natural linen back, title in red on spine. A very fine copy. Written in the form of a letter to Thomas Kilmartin, refuting his assertion that St. Patrick was born in Scotland. [Grabhorn: 560]..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933 First edition, first issue with the date at the bottom of title page and the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Small quarto. xiv, [2], 251pp. Illustrated with 104 black & white drawings plus 2 more on jacket. Red cloth stamped in black and gold. Very slight rubbing to foot of spine, neat contemporary owner's name and date (1933) on endpaper. A very fine copy with lightly worn pictorial dust jacket. "Full of 42 short stories and monographs, this fascinating book has more detail and more accurate cowboy lore that is in any other book anywhere. If you can't find answers to your cow and horse work questions here they probably don't exist... the most varied, most diversely illustrated and most fully informative about the cowboy way of life of all the 24 Will James' books... If you want one of the best and most varied examples of Will James black-on-white art, then perhaps one of the best single places to find it is in… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938 First edition without the Scribner's 'A' on copyright page, and with "New York" at bottom of title page. xiv, [2], 269pp. plus photographs. Full-color frontispiece and 30 black & white drawings by the author, as well as 18 pages of 21 photographs of rodeo riding. Orange-red cloth stamped in black. Neat contemporary owner's name and date (March, 1940) at top of edge of endpaper. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket with short half-inch tear near lower spine, head of spine very slightly chipped. "This is again a Will James book of short stories with one central character carrying through from start to finish. Will James knew rodeoing from all sides. He contested in them, put on a few with his friends, wrote news commentaries on them, and acted as a judge in quite a few. These stories give plenty of examples of how rough a game rodeoing is" (Frazier). All the actual rodeo photographs were chosen by the… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935 First edition. xvii, 346pp. 54 black & white drawings by the author plus full-color painting, a drawing, and a screened photo on the dust jacket. Light brown cloth stamped in black. One lower corner slightly jammed. Neat contemporary owner's three-line inscription at top of endpaper, dated Christmas, 1935. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (just a bit rough at top edge and with corner of jacket flap slightly creased). "Although in the general form of a Will James novel, I include this with his books of short stories. While the primary characters and location are carried through the book, the chapters are self-contained and are titled as short episodes... this is a good and descriptive book about cowboying and ranch work" (Frazier). The final chapter of this book ties all the chapters together. The heroine gets the cowboy she has always wanted, the son is running the ranch well and profitably, etc. "Life and ranching are… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936 First edition. viii, 312pp. Full-color frontispiece plus 45 black & white drawings by the author. Salmon cloth stamped in black. Neat contemporary owner's five-line inscription to upper corner of endpaper, dated Christmas, 1936. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Very scarce in this condition. "This is another Will James novel with a horse as a central character. And this horse is one rough hombre. His rider isn't plumb gentle either but the horse wins the decisive battles and makes everything come out right in the end... To find a first edition of this book in a very fine dust jacket is next door to impossible. There are plenty of first edition copies around and a fair number in dj's, but try finding a dj with the red-ink lettering on the spine! The red ink fades to pink very easily and soon after that disappears altogether" (Frazier). Our jacket lettering is only very slightly faded. [Frazier, The Will James Books: p.100]..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929 First edition with the date at the bottom of the title page and the three-line copyright notice. x, [2], 328pp. 47 black & white drawings by the author. Green cloth stamped in black with red rule. Slight rubbing to foot of spine, previous owner's short inscription to endpaper. A fine copy. "Sand is a novel about a wastrel tenderfoot who turns himself into a working cowboy. It takes a few years but he gets the job done. He gets the champion mustang nobody could catch, and the gal that was even harder to corral. A very satisfactory conclusion... The drawings rank up with his best and none is a repeat from his first four books... I like Horatio Alger plots and mustang stories. I loved this book" (Frazier). [Frazier, The Will James Books: p.31]..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930 First edition. x, [2], 431pp. Frontispiece portrait, 71 drawings by the author. Forest green pictorial cloth stamped in black, title stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to spine ends, less so to lower corners, spine slightly darkened. Owner's neat signature on endpaper. A near fine copy. James' autobiography told in the first person as if he is taking the reader on a ride of his western wanderings. "This is certainly one of Will James' best and most wanted books" (Frazier). [Adams, Herd: 1157; Frazier, The Books of Will James, p.40]..

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1966 First edition. Small quarto. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial label to front cover. A fine copy in a slightly soiled and lightly rubbed dustjacket, and with a small spot near jacket spine. An English translation and interpertation of Goethe's "Weissagungen des Bakis.".

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916 First edition. 1,200 copies. Small octavo. vi, [2], 217pp. plus ads. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, pictorial element on front cover in light blue, gold and black. Very minor rubbing to spine ends and corners, light foxing to six preliminary leaves. Overall, a fine copy. The author's second book and the first to be published by a major publishing house. [Alberts: 15]..

New York: Horace Liveright, 1928 First edition. Number 346 of 375 numbered and signed copies. 160pp. Title printed in red and black. Two-tone salmon and tan cloth. Spine and edges of covers a bit darkened. A near fine copy. Includes the long narrative poem, "Cawdor," along with 16 shorter pieces, most set in California's Big Sur region..