Np: Self-Published, 2010. Limited Edition. Oblong Small Quarto. Although the author has photographed extensively in England, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uganda, Sudan, and Puerto Rico, her favorite place is on the mountain trails and lakeside paths of the White Mountains of Arizona. She has inscribed this book as..... More
(Raleigh, NC, 2000): Pentland Press. First Edition. Octavo. Signed and inscribed by the author. "Best Wishes". 413 pages, index, bibliography. While its reputation is about the days when the Earps and Clantons walked the streets of nearby Tombstone, John Ringo had lived there. It became a boom town in the..... More
The University of New Mexico: Albuquerque, 1954. First Edition. Octavo. 164pp. Profusely illustrated with 73 b&w plates and 6 color plates by Robert H. Peebles. Text. Map. Index. Bert Robinson bought his first Indian basket on the streets of Phoenix in 1915. He managed one of the great collections of..... More
Phoenix, AZ (1983): The Southwest Natural History Association. Limited Edition. Octavo. 145 pages. Limited to 50 copies signed by both authors. The present copy is #1. Illustrated. One of the fascinating accounts of the Grindell prospecting party whose fate ended up as the Seri tribe continued their practice of cannibalism..... More
(Sierra Vista, AZ; 1983): J. Hein. Octavo. 282 pages, inscribed Best Wishes, Jac Hein, illustrated with photographic illustrations. A history of Sierra Vista, Arizona, from the first settlement outside the gates of Fort Huachuca to its gradual growth and expansion in the 1940's and 50's. This work fills in where..... More
Chico, California; (1946): for William Hutchinson. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to only 1,000 copies signed by Carl Hertzog. xiv-xxv, 234 pages with an introductiond by J. Frank Dobie "My Salute to Eugene Rhodes". Illustrated by Harold Bugbee. This was some of his best writing that had appeared in the Saturday..... More
Octavo. A 1905 letter (4 page ALS. handwritten on Santa Rita Hotel letterhead.) concerning the Gunsight and Ajo mining claims in Pima County, Arizona Territory. It is from E.P. Hamersly, who appears to be a stakeholder or shareholder conducting legal research on the mining operation which was for gold, silver..... More
San Francisco: Payot, Upham & Company, 1878. First Edition. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, 431 pages, [5], ci (101) pages, 43 pages advertising stagecoach, railroads, mining supplies, banks, and many smaller entrepreneurs in early Arizona. Two folding maps (6 full page maps), 18 full page lithographs, 36 in text maps. The most..... More
San Franciso: A.L. Bancroft, 1884. Octavo. Third edition. 415 pages with 12 pages of ads. This copy has the fine original map (often lacking in many copies), Howes #133; Wallace G-6; Herd #983; Alliot, p. 97. After the earlier editions which were primarily promotional volumes to attract Eastern investors, Wallace..... More
Prescott, AZ: Printed By Authority of the Legislature, 1881. Octavo. 2nd Issue. 120 pages, The Eleventh Legislature appointed Patrick Hamilton as Immigration Commissioner in 1881 and directed him to publish information on Arizona's economic potential. Although an early printing took place in Florence it had only 71 pages and disappointed..... More
California; (1975, 1980, 1984 and 1998): Various Publishers. Quarto. v. 1. The southern roads. -- v. 2. Phoenix and the central roads. -- v. 3. Clifton, Morenci, and Metcalf rails and copper mines, Arizona locomotive rosters. -- v. 4. The Santa Fe route. The definitive set on Arizona railroads with..... More
Tucson: 1931. Octavo. 9 leaves unnumbered. An unrecorded copy either in OCLC or NUC. The University of Arizona has a program of the lodge printed in 1932 (the only recorded copy--see OCLC: 67968826). This program lists all the past masters noting with an asterisk those deceased. Picture of the Mansfield..... More
Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1999. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author with errata slip laid in. 400 pages, profusely illustrated with historic photographs, endpaper plat map. Bibliography, index. The author devoted years of research to the subject of Tombstone beyond the gunfighter mythology, and the focus of..... More
Phoenix: Phoenix: Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, 1966. First Edition Limited. Quarto. Number 103 of a Special Gift Edition of two hundred copies. Signed by all three authors: Fay Jackson Smith, John L. Kessell, Francis J. Fox, S.J. also signed by Barry Goldwater. 142pp., index. Maps by Don Bufkin. Bound in..... More
Austin; (1987): Eakin Press. Limited Edition. Octavo. The Special Collector's Edition. Limited to only 10 copies. The present copy is #2 signed by the author. 222 pp., index, end notes, appendix, numerous photographs. The publisher bound in an incorrect copyright page which was corrected in later printings of the limited..... More
Np, (1984): Self-Published. First Edition Limited. Quarto. Signed by the author Frank Gillette. 201 pages. Illustrated. Frank Gillette was born on Haigler Creek on a ranch which was accessible only by horse and mule pack. The background is the remote area where Graham-Tekksbury took place. This work as C.L. Sonnichsen..... More
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1969. First Editon. Octavo. 398 pp. Review copy with slip laid in. A very fine chronicle of Arizona's deserted mining boom camps, stage stations, army posts, ranches and practically every pioneer building from the baronial hacienda of the Spanish dons to the shanties of dryland homesteaders..... More
Tucson, Arizona: Arizona Silhouettes, 1956. Limited Edition. Octavo. 110pp. #791of 1000 copies. Color photograph hand-mounted as frontispiece. A revealing history of the Catholic Mission, and Father Kino, in the Arizona Territory. With numerous photographs. Bound in light brown pictorial cloth lettered and illustrated in dark brown, spine lettering dark brown..... More
(1983). Quarto. 100 leaves. Very scarce history on engineering in early Arizona (copies at Az, State, U of A, ASU, and University of Texas. Scott was the Phoenix City Manager from 1940-1942. Laid in is corrected page 97 in this word-processed manuscript. Note at bottom to Nancy Phillips to whom..... More
Phoenix: Manufacturing Stationers, 1921. First Edition. Octavo. 307 pages. A tipped in is a signed Letter from Heber J. Grant, President, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Salt Lake City, 1921 to House of Representatives member E.J. Jones. The project began with Thomas E. Farish but when he passed..... More
London/New York: William Heinemann/John Lane, 1905. First Edition. Octavo. . Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author who also wrote The Garden of Kama and Stars of the Desert. 92pp. Although her pen name "Laurence Hope" is used, the frontispiece has a picture of the author whose name was Adele Florence..... More
London: Printed for J. Huggonson, 1742. Small Octavo. 34 pages, a satire in dialect on Sir Robert Walpole. The satire continues with intentional misspellings to the Lort [sic] Chancellor o v Crete [sic] Britain. Copies at the Huntington, Newberry, National Library of Scotland, and a few others. There are electronic..... More
(Self Published/Leathers Publishing, Appleton City, MO, 2004). Quarto. 302pp. Inscribed by the author. Family and town memories of growing up in 19th century Appleton City, Missouri, Middle West, North America. Illustrated with photographs, facsimile of news papers and broadsheet, along with many names of families who lived there and short..... More
Indianapolis: Keystone Press, 1929. 16mo. 15 unnumbered pages. Presented to members of the James Whitcomb Riley memorial in 1929. Only four copies found in OCLC. staple bound in stiff blue paper with light blue illustrative pastedown, lettering in gilt, near fine. More
Baltimore: Borderlands Press, 1994. Limited Edition. Octavo. 470 pages. Limited to 500 copies of which this is the proof copy for Stuart David Schiff. His inscription to Roger Zelazny says: "For Roger with greatest thanks for everything as always who ever dedicated a book to me." Stuart David Schiff, Preface..... More