New York; (1992): Walker and Co. First Edition. Octavo. 4th printing. 114 pp. 36 names and inscriptions of Navajo code talkers on the endpapers, half-title and one signed card laid in. During Word War II, Navajo code talkers in the Pacific participated in key battles and maneuvers. They were on..... More
Tucson, AZ (1953): Cumming Publication Council. First Edition in English. Octavo. 251 pp. 2 folding maps. Signed by the author who turned 93 on the day this book was published, and he was the first white man to see Rainbow Bridge. In this book, Dr. Cummings, the acknowledged Dean of..... More
Flagstaff; (1977): Northland Press. First Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 100 copies, signed by all 27 contributors, including Senator Barry Goldwater, Raul Castro, Ted DeGrazia and others. The present copy is #76. 266 pp. This is not just another history of Arizona and the southwest. It is a word picture..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1913. Octavo. Revised and enlarged edition. In this revised edition James added a map, and he also rewrote one chapter. There is a long inscription to Theodore Sternfeld from the author on the half-title. Frontispiece and vignette title page in red and black, xxiv, 352..... More
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914. First Edition. Octavo. Color frontispiece of the river flowing through the Grand Canyon. 344 pp. (3) pp. publisher's advertisements. Illustrated with 48 plates from photographs by the author and his brother. Foreword by Owen Wister. The Kolb brothers were not the first to travel..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. Signed and inscribed by the author. Frontispiece map, 442 pp., with over 300 illustrations and a map, introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of American Museum of Natural History, New York, The Grand Canyon covers over 144,000 square miles of territory..... More
Oyster Bay, NY. (1915): Nelson Doubleday/Outing Publishing Co. Octavo. Wallace Stegner's copy with his signature on the front free endpaper and with a note laid in. 320 pp. A daily report of Powell's adventurous exploration of the Colorado River in 1869-70, an expedition that unveiled the breathtaking yet treacherous landscapes..... More
San Francisco: For G.K. Woods By The Whitaker and Ray Co., 1899. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, and 26 other photographic images. John Hance (1837 - 1919) is thought to be the first non-Native American resident of the Grand Canyon. Author George Wharton James writes his "An Enthusiastic Description" of..... More
Chicago, Ill, and Stockholm, (1893): P.A. Norstedt and Soner. First Edition in English. Folio. Portrait frontispiece, 174 pp. of text; 51 full page plates with descriptive text and one plate in color, IV pp. index and an appendix human remains from the cliff dwellings of the Mesa Verde by G...... More
Philadelphia; 1797 and 1798: Zachariah Poulson, Junior. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes, Vol. I: Engraved frontispiece, 508 pp. included an index and errata. Vol II: Folding map frontispiece, 373 pp. 146 pp. appendix. This work includes a detailed biography of William Penn, an overview of the Religious Society of..... More
Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1908. First Edition. Octavo. . Portrait frontispiece, 269(1) pp. Illustrated with photographic images. Martha was a cultured, educated New England lady, who suffered many hardships as she accompanied her husband, Lt. Col. John Summerhayes and the Army to the west, especially during Arizona's Indian..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. First Edition. Quarto. 291 pp., with 80 illustrations which include the frontispiece showing Grand Canon of the Colorado. Includes the signed letter from Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano that was delivered with the book to Henry Bannister of Evanston, Ill. Delano was the 11th..... More
Los Angeles: Gem Publishing Co., 1926. First Edition. Octavo. Color frontispiece of Geronimo on his horse. 277 pp. inscribed by the author "Most sincerely yours/and with many good/wishes from the author. /Anton Mazzanovich/Oct. 23rd, 1926. Laid in is a folded prospectus with the identical picture of Geronimo and titled "The..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1929. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, signed and inscribed "With every good wish/for a wonderful voyage/Clyde Eddy". 293 pp. illustrated with photographic images. Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, one of the surviving members of Major Powell's expedition contributes the introduction. Eddy is the only man who..... More
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, inscribed by Lockwood "To my friend/John T. McCutcheon/With esteem and affection/Frank C. Lockwood/The University of Arizona/Tucson, Nov. 15, 1944." 210 pp., edited and with an introduction by Frank C. Lockwood, with decoration by Cas Duchow. Will C. Barnes, a...... More
Los Angeles/Flagstaff: Glen and Muir Dawson/Northland Press, 1962. Limited Edition. Quarto. One of 55 copies, this copy is numbered 31 and signed by the artist. Don Perceval was a British born American artist whose fine drawings and watercolors capture the spirit of the Southwest with unusual sensitivity. After settling in..... More
New York; (1927): The Century Co. First Edition. Octavo. First printing, frontispiece, 276 pp., illustrated with photographic images. The author wrote this story as a young college student who was forced to withdraw from Princeton by a physical breakdown. He then decides to travel by horseback through the Southwest; then..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1954. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece is a fine folding panoramic view of the Grand Canyon of Colorado looking east, south and west from Point Sublime by William H. Holmes from Dutton's Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District. 438 pp. illustrated with maps, photographic images and..... More
New York; (1925): The Century Co. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, inscribed and signed by the author to Harry Noyes Pratt (1879-1944). This story deals with the million square miles of territory of which New Mexico and Arizona form the center. Lummis had devoted the better part of his life to..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, Inscribed and signed by the author in the year of publication. 431(2) pp. Will James gives the most complete and varied idea of how a cowboy lives. He traces his incredible journey from an orphaned toddler in the American..... More
New York: F.B. Patterson, 1875. First Edition. Small Octavo. 132pp. Illustrated by Addie Ledyard. A near fine copy of the author's scarce breakthrough work of society verse. [together with] George A. Baker, Jr's. The Stay at Home's Paean. Original Autograph Manuscript Signed ("G.A. Baker Jr."). One page, written in brown..... More
(Flagstaff, Arizona; 1994): Northland Publishing with the Heard Museum. First Edition. Quarto. 7th printing. Inscribed and signed by Barton Wright, Foreword by Patrick Houlihan. 262 pp., with an alphabetical listing of the 237 Kachinas illustrated by the late Cliff Bahnimptewa, reproduced in full color. Laid in are two water color..... More