Denver: State Historical Society, 1906. First Edition. Octavo. . 159pp., illustrated. This work is the first circumstantially complete history of the New Mexico Campaign and the Colorado volunteers yet published. The first engagement in La Glorieta Pass usually has been known in Colorado as the "Apache Canon Fight", and the..... More
El Segundo, CA: Upton and Sons, 1994. First Edition. Quarto. Custer Trail Series, volume 4, 642(1)pp., illustrated by Warren A. Van Ess who at the age of 16 was struck with polio. He is an artist who has exceptional talent and won several awards for his work. He had learned..... More
Denver: World Press, 1929. Octavo. The development of the west which includes the building of the overland telegraph; the Maxwell Land Grant, Long's exploration of the West, control and use of water, caterpillar and locust scourges, early freighting by ox-teams, the D. and R. G. railway, facts and reflections on..... More
Austin, TX, (1969): University of Texas Press. First Edition. Octavo. 331pp. Illustrated, folding map. The French in Texas: A story of a railroad in northwest Texas. Despite its unsavory history, the Franco-Texan Land Company furthered the development of Northwest Texas by bringing into the area by hundreds of French immigrants..... More
Np: Np, 1962. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 100 copies of this anniversary edition. 56 pages. Illustrated. One of the fascinating accounts of overland travel. The loud noises made by felling trees, and moving large numbes of wagons interfered with the Indians who found them disorienting. Their travels to the..... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1942. Limited Edition. Limited to 500 copies Signed by Author. The present copy is #447. The directory is housed within a specially made envelope bound in at front, large folding map at rear. Illustrated and bound in into the middle is a reproduction of the..... More
Quarto. 33pp. and 9 pages. Record of journey from Delaware, Ohio April 2, 1850 to arrival in California on December 8, 1850. with the Delaware Mining Co., by way of St. Louis, St. Joseph, Blue and Platte Rivers, South Pass, Salt Lake City, and Humboldt and Carson Rivers, to Sacramento..... More
Denver, (1961): Nolie Mumey. Limited Edition. Folio. Limited to 192 copies of of 350 copies signed by Mummey. Civil war centennial issue, facsimile from the original in the Western History Department, Denver, CO. Illustrated with twenty-three pages of color plate reproductions, with Mathew's biography and Diary laid in. Bound in..... More
London: G. Virtue, 1841. Thick Quarto. Engraved title page and regular title page. xv, 1055 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates, illustrations, index. This edition has added seven dissertations concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's command to Abraham, & c. Among the engravings are those of..... More
New York; (2011): Rizzoli. First Edition. Quarto. 2nd printing. 223 pages. illustrated. Charlotte Moss is known for her distinctive flair for style. In this volume, she reveals the methods of her measurement with over 200 photographs. While this work has been a standard for museum curators, it is also key..... More
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2002. First Edition. Quarto. 182 pages, index, chronology, notes. Inscribed: "Thank You, Many Blessings, 'Walk N Beauty', Jesse Monongya." The artists is of Navaho and Hopi heritage and is a world-renowned master of painterly inlay, whose work is considered in the heritage of the Renaissance..... More
Ogunquit, Maine: H. Strater, 1979. Quarto. No pagination [172] pages, chiefly illustrations, portraits. Foreword by Edward F. Fry; compiled by the artist and Michael Henry Strater. Title on Cover: Rocks, Nudes, & Flowers. His work of the region as well as the images he did of Ernest Hemingway done in..... More
(Santa Fe, NM, 2005): Wheelwright Museum of the American Museum. Quarto. xiii, 209 pages, illustrations in color. this work was pubished in conjunction with an exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum, May 14-October 23, 2005, it includes bibliographic references (pages 203-206).Loloma is arguably the most influential Native American jeweler of the..... More
New York; (1980): Watson-Guptill Publications. First Edition. Quarto. First printing. 176pp. The Taos art color included a diverse group of artists. This is a major study of their lives, their art and the legends they created, as well as a fascinating examination of the unique relationship between the Taos artists..... More
New York; (1976): Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 363(1)pp., From the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas Malory and other sources. Steinbeck wrote this story in present day speech for his young sons and for other sons not so young. He did not rewrite the original story. He..... More
New York; (1985): G.P. Putnam's Sons. First Edition. Octavo. 382pp., Here we follow Colonel Colin Campbell, a character in the fine Heinlein tradition of philosopher/soldier/rogue, on a whirlwind adventure that's part Tom Jones, part Star Wars, part The Time Machine and unfailingly Heinlein. Here are imaginary places at once familiar..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. . 247pp. The author's third novel. Once again, Crichton combines documentary verisimilitude with hair-raising suspense for the reader, a new area of modern science: Surgical-electronic mind control. His subject, Harry Benson, a violent paranoid, will undergo the surgery. A team of..... More
New York; (1977): Delacorte Press. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 256pp. It all starts the night of a strange local blackout. A blackout in which the power fails but the most vivid of colors emerge. A novel that makes that third kindf of encounter an event so colorful, so full..... More
New York; (1985): G.P. Putnam's Sons. First Edition. Octavo. 464pp., The ongoing Dune legend has already encompassed some 50,000 years. Now, 1500 years after Leto, his Golden Path has led to Armageddon" The remnants of the only institution remaining from the Old Empire, the Bene Gesserit, are locked in a...... More
(New York, 1996): Simon and Schuster. First Edition. Octavo. 364pp., signed by Cussler on the title page. This is Cussler's first non-fiction book. He explores the special world of undersea adventure that inspired and has its fictional parallel in Dirk Pitt novels. Cussler and his NUMA volunteers have found more..... More
London: Kinnell, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. First UK hard cover edition. 310pp. Inscribed and signed by the author ( changing pens because ink was low.) The invading Ashiyyur swept in from beyond the Galaxy. Christopher Sim and his makeshift space navy held back the attacker while Earth debated whether to..... More
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. First US hard cover edition and Winner of the 1983 Philip K. Dick Award. 361pp. with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell, illustrated by Mark Bilokur. A delightful, complicated time travel historical fantasy. Their juggernaut plot spans continents and millennia, tying together..... More
Woodstock, GA, (1998): Overlook Connection Press. Limited Edition. Octavo. 429pp., Limited edition of 500 copies signed by the author, Smith, along with Alan Clark and Neil Gaiman. The present copy is # 238. The story of Jack Randall who must make a decision: take revenge or turn away. In a...... More