western americana
THE HIDDEN CANYON: A River Journey
(New York): Penguin Books, (1977). First Edition. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. Photographic wraps. A very good copy. Mild surface scratching to wraps. Interior bright, clean overall with minimal touches of foxing. Good and sound.135pp. First paperback edition concurrent with hardcover. Contains essays by Abbey and Litton along with Blaustein's photographs in.....
SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN Volume 48 Number 9, DECEMBER 1963
Berkeley: The Sierra Club, 1963. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Good. Stain effecting the majority of the front wrap. Spine creased. Crease at rear running the entire vertical length and resulting bend throughout. Interior clean and bright. Essays on climbing Everest, the Colorado Canyon and other subjects, illustrated.....
PERPETUAL MIRAGE: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Gilt-stamped orange cloth boards in black and white photographic dust jacket. Moderate edgewear. Scuffing and small tears to spine ends. Pages toned. Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art. With.....
EL MOLINO VIEJO
[Los Angeles]: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with affixed illustration and gilt titles. A very good copy. Light touches of dampstaining and surface scratches to cloth. Gift inscription to FFEP. Interior bright and clean overall. Good and sound. 57pp. Handsomely printed edition. The story.....
COPPER CAMP: Stories of the World's Greatest Mining Town Butte Montana
New York: Hastings House, (1951). Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Light edge-wear with chips at spine ends. Price-clipped. Light wear to cloth at edges. Pages lightly toned throughout but clean. Very good. Several illustrations throughout the text. Collection of essays on Butte, Montana Sponsored by.....
LIFE ON THE PLAINS AND AMONG THE DIGGINGS; Being Scenes and Adventures of an Overland Journey to California; with Particular Incidents of the Route, Mistakes and Sufferings of the Emigrants, The Indian Tribes, The Present and the Future of the Great West
np: (Time-Life Books), (1980). Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. Full faux leather over boards. Very near fine. Trivial scratches to page edges (gilt). Binding tight. Almost certainly unread. 384pp. The "Deluxe Edition" with embossed design on front cover. A facsimile reprint of this 1854 travel journal of California.
THE GOLDEN BOWL
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1944). Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Very good plus in a fair dust jacket. SIGNED by Manfred (as "Frederick Manfred") on title page. Jacket split in two, torn diagonally at back panel, with heavy chipping and tears, several small losses. Book.....
THE CHOKECHERRY TREE
Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Gray cloth. No dust jacket, though front flap preserved inside front cover. Ex-library. SIGNED by Feikema at half title. About very good overall, with light rubbing and small dampstains to boards. Library envelopes affixed to rear pastedown and rear endpaper. Text block.....
AN OKLAHOMA REBEL: The Life Story of John C. Hubbard
Oklahoma City: Cryer Publishing, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Hubbard and Fleming. Very good. Jacket suffers minor edgewear including small closed tears and resulting creases. Dampstain at spine. Chip at upper right corner of front panel. interior clean and bright. Biography of.....
MOST OF A CENTURY: Law and Public Service, 1930's to 1990's
Berkeley: University of California, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Bound xerox typescript bound in blue buckram. Fine condition. Bright, tight and sharp. Appears unread. Oral history from the prominent California lawyer and community activist Louis Heilbron. Heilbron was the first chairman of the board of trustees of the California State.....
The Gaucho MartÌn Fierro. Adapted from the Spanish and Rendered into English Verse by Walter Owen, with Drawings by Alberto Giraldes.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Pampa, (1960). First edition thus. Leather Bound. 8vo. Full leather. Rubbed at extremities, a few scuffs. Very good overall. Handsome Argentine edition of this epic poem, limited to 3020 copies; this one of 100 numbered copies (this #24) bound in leather and with a special drawing printed.....
THE CALIFORNIA BACKGROUND: Spanish or American?
Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, (1957). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Light toning to wraps. Interior bright and clean. Near fine. An address read to the annual meeting of the Friends of the Bancroft Library, in Berkeley California May 5, 1957.
WHEN THE WEST WAS YOUNG: Historical Reminiscences of the Early Canadian West
Lethbridge, Alberta: The Herald Printers, 1978. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with titles in gilt. Minor shelfwear. Very near fine. Reprint from the 1933 edition.
THE WORLD RUSHED IN: The California Gold Rush Experience
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter brown cloth over boards. In original pictorial dust jacket. About fine in like DJ. INSCRIBED by Holliday to publisher's logo page: "For Mary Hunter - / an old friend of / my brother and mine - / With.....
CONTINUATION OF THE ANNALS OF SAN FRANCISCO: Part 1 From June 1, 1854, to December 31, 1855
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1939. Limited ed. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with affixed title. A near fine copy. Minimal corner bumps. Endpapers a trifle toned. Interior bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 124pp. From an edition of 300 copies. Excerpts from contemporary magazines and newspapers compiled by.....
CLEAR CREEK: Animal Behavior Special / The Environmental Viewpoint No. 8 November 1971
San Francisco: Clear Creek Associates, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Folded newsprint. Uniformly toned, lightly foxed. Mild wear and some tears to page edges. Very good. Early, short-lived Bay Area environmentalist newsletter. This issue features a spread on the rhesus monkey, November's "Life Form of the Month."
CLEAR CREEK: Boise Cascade's Dream Lake / The Environmental Viewpoint No. 6 September 1971
San Francisco: Clear Creek Associates, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Folded newsprint. Uniformly toned, lightly foxed. Mild wear and some tears to page edges. Very good. Early, short-lived Bay Area environmentalist newsletter. This issue features Nathan Hare on Black Ecology, an interview with Hare by Edward Washington, and an article.....
CLEAR CREEK: The Environmental Viewpoint / No. 5 August 1971
San Francisco: Clear Creek Associates, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Folded newsprint. Uniformly toned, lightly foxed. Mild wear and some tears to page edges. Very good. Early, short-lived Bay Area environmentalist newsletter. This issue focuses on local American government at the county level, and features a Manifesto for Citizen Counterrevolution.....
THE TIME IT NEVER RAINED
Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian University Press, (1984). later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth in original dust jacket. INSCRIBED at ffep "For my old friend / Loyd Hackler- / Who lived through / the drought in this story./ Elmer Kelton/ 7/11/84." Light rubbing and mild edgewear to jacket. Price-clipped.....
BLACKS IN GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth boards in black and yellow photographic dust jacket. Spine sunned. Light scuffing to jacket edges. INSCRIBED on ffep: "Dear Ken / On the occasion of your retirement please accept this token of my appreciation for your years of.....
JUST DAD. COLLECTION OF LETTERS AND WRITINGS BY ROBERT LEONARD LIGON TO HIS SON EARNEST. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PIONEER DAYS IN THE MIDDLE WEST, 1867-1959
np: Ernest M. Ligon, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth boards. Near fine or better. Bright and clean. SIGNED by editor and publisher Ernest Ligon to half title. Illustrated. 307pp.
COMSTOCK MINING AND MINERS
Berkeley: Howell-North, (1952). Reprint. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Grey cloth. Near fine. No DJ. Trace shelfwear. Bright, clean and sound overall. Map present and fine. Introduction by David Myrick. 451pp. with index.
Men of the West: Life on the American Frontier
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Touches of shelfwear to book and jacket. Overall, clean, bright, and sound. Inscribed and signed by author to ffep. A handsome production, heavily illustrated. 252pp. with index.
ARROW OF LOVE
Denver: Alan Swallow, (1961). Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound pictorial wraps. About near fine. Light hints of toning to wraps; trace wear to one corner of spine. Interior clean and unmarred throughout. Binding sound. 220pp. Collects three "novelettes" by the acclaimed author of Western-themed novels. Uncommon bound thus.
DUKE'S MIXTURE
(Sioux Falls, SD): The Center for Western Studies, (1994). Later printing. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound photographic wraps. Very good plus. Trivial edgwear to front cover; light rubbing to rear. Mild soil inside front cover. Otherwise clean and bright throughout. 270pp. Collection of essays by this "bard of Siouxland," dating from 1951.....