News of the Plains and Rockies, 1803-1865. Original Narratives of Overland Travel and Adventure Selected From the Wager-Camp and Becker Bibliography of Western Americana. [9 volumes]
by White, David A. [Editor]
Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1996 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 9 volumes, including Supplemental Volume. First editions, published between 1996-2002. Compiled and edited by David A. White. Numerous maps and facsimiles. Index in volume 8. Tan cloth, stamped in gold over a red foil background (supplemental volume in maroon cloth, as issued). A very fine set. Each volume limited to approximately 1400 copies. The author spent over two decades collecting and studying material drawn from the famous... Read More
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Baptism in Oil. Stephen F. Peckham in Southern California, 1865-66.
by White, Gerald T.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 500 copies printed from the design of Ward Ritchie by The Castle Press. Quarto. 138pp. Portraits, plates from photographs; extensive notes. Cloth-backed decorated green boards with gilt-lettered spine. Light fading to top edge of front cover, else a fine copy. Includes Peckham's extensive correspondence relating to oil. The book documents the story behind one of the most controversial and startling discoveries made during the formative... Read More
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![Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842… in Five Volumes with Thirteen Maps. [5 volumes].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/742/851/1737851742.0.l.jpg)
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842… in Five Volumes with Thirteen Maps. [5 volumes].
by WILKES, Charles
THE FIRST U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION BY SEA 5 volumes. Large octavo. 10 x 6½ inches. lx, 434 + xv, [1], 476 + xv [1], 438 + xvi, 539 + xv, [1], 558pp. 64 fine engraved portraits and views, hundreds of woodcut text-illustrations throughout, 12 folding maps; 1 single-page map. Collated complete. Handsomely bound in new three-quarter navy blue leather over navy cloth, 5 raised bands and gilt on spines, with tan leather spine labels. Spines very slightly faded. Volume 1: one... Read More
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And Did you Once See Sidney Plain? A Random Memoir of S.J. Perelman.
by Wilk, Max
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986 Book. Illus. by Hirschfeld, Al. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Drawings by Al Hirschfeld. Burgandy cloth, gilt-lettering to spine. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket..
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Report Upon the Removal of Blossom Rock, in San Francisco Harbor, California
by Williamson, R. S. and W. H. Heuer
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1871 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 11½ x 9 inches. 40pp. plus 11 plates (one folding, one in color). Lithographic title page with vignette. Publisher's original blind-ruled dark green cloth, gilt-lettered title to front cover. Expertly rebacked to match, corners lightly refurbished. Endpapers renewed. Complete and clean. The complete official report, with precise engineering drawings, of the removal of this major obstacle. Blossom rock was a huge chunk of sandstone, located just five feet below... Read More
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A Battle from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
by Wills, Brian Steel
New York: HarperCollins, 1992 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition. Black cloth-backed beige boards with gilt lettering on spine. 19 maps, illustrations from sketches, notes, bibliography, index. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket is price-clipped, else very fine..
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Big Adventures with Buffalo Bill
by Willson, Wingrove [Editor]
London: Aldine Goodship House Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. No date, c. 1924. Small quarto. 144pp. Black & white illustrations throughout, 4 color plates. Rose cloth lettered and decorated in black, pictorial pastedown on front cover. A little offsetting to free endpapers. Title page slightly soiled. Overall, a fine copy. The author's second book after his Scouts of the Great Wild West. Written for young boys, this work presents a number of adventure stories about Buffalo Bill by... Read More
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The Children's Friend
by Wilson, Rev. W. Carus
Kirkby Lonsdale: Printed and Sold by A. Foster, 1824 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Sixteen volumes (1824-1839). First edition. Very rare! 24mo (5x2¾ inches). Approximately 275pp. per volume. Each volume illustrated with wood engravings. Half green morocco, marbled sides. Some volumes with wear to spine ends. A very good set, complete. The Children's Friend was a British journal for children, in monthly parts, first published in 1824. It was founded by the Rev. William Carus Wilson (1791-1859). Wilson if perhaps best known... Read More
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Mike at Wrykyn
by Wodehouse, P.G.
New York: Meredith Press, 1953 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition, so stated. Gray cloth, printed in black and tan on spine. Edge of text-block very slightly foxed, else a very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Wodehouse's great school cricket story..
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In the Floating Army. F.C. Mills on Itinerant Life in California, 1914
by Woirol, Gregory R
Urbana: University of Illinois, 1992 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. x, 168pp. Fine copy with dust jacket. One of the most detailed personal accounts available of itinerant life in California just prior to the United States' entry into World War I..
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A Naturalist in Indian Territory. The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50.
by Woodhouse, S.W.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Edited and Annotated by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. Pp. xv, [1], 304. 26 illustrations from old prints, photographs, reproductions; 4 maps. Notes, bibliography, index. Tan mottled boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Norman: First edition. In 1849, Samuel Washington Woodhouse, a young physician and avid ornithologist, was appointed surgeon-naturalist of two expeditions to survey the Creek-Cherokee boundary in... Read More
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Recollections of Pioneer Work in California.
by WOODS, James, Rev.
San Francisco: Joseph Winterburn & Co., 1878 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Fist edition. 260pp. Green cloth, gilt. Wear to spine ends, corners. Previous owner's signature. A very good copy. First edition. An account of the reverend's experiences in San Francisco, Stockton, Marysville, Los Angeles and other areas of California. Woods arrived in California during the early Gold Rush... Read More
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The Snake Country Expedition of 1830-1831. John Work's Field Journal.
by Work, John
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Edited by Francis D. Haines, Jr. Octavo. 8½ x 5¾ inches. xxvii, 172pp. plus 8 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Text map; appendix, bibliography, index. Blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. A very fine copy with dust jacket. The previously unpublished journal of Work's expedition to the Snake Country under the sponsorship of the Hudson's Bay Company, which lasted 11 months and covered nearly 2,000... Read More
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The Story of the Tower. The Tree That Escaped the Crowded Forest.
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
New York: Horizon Press, 1956 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition. Presentation, SIGNED by the author, "To Harry Riskes - Frank Lloyd Wright / 57" (Harry Riskes was a contractor working for Frank Lloyd Wright for many years). Also includes another presentation to Riskes from his colleague, John G. Phillips. Quarto. 134pp. Illustrated throughout with frontis portrait, photographs and plans, 2 folding color plates. Black cloth decorated and lettered in red and gilt. Tiny scar to center of... Read More
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Letter from North America
by Xantus, John
Detriot: Wayne State University Press, 1975 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Translated and edited by Theodore Schoenman and Helen Benedek Schoenman, with an Introduction by Thoedore Schoenman. Octavo. 9¼ x 6 inches. 198 pp. Frontis portrait, 13 illustrations, double-page map. Bibliography, index. Brown cloth. A fine copy in lightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket. First English language edition, translated from the first Hungarian edition of 1857. Account of this noted naturalist's travels, who collected and described the flora... Read More
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A Sailor's Sketch of the Sacramento Valley in 1842
by Yates, John
Berkeley: Friends of The Bancroft Library, 1971 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Printed by Lawton Kennedy. Introduction and Notes by Ferol Egan. [6], 37pp. Large folding color facsimile map, notes, index. Stiff gray wrappers printed in red. Yapped edges. Printed throughout in red and black. Spine and upper edges faded, light edge wear to yapped edges. else a fine copy. Account of California's inland-delta country during the early 1840's. The large folding facsimile map (in color) portrays the Sacramento... Read More
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The Lower Colorado River: a Bibliography
by Yates, Richard and Mary Marshall
Yuma, Arizona: Arizona Western College, 1974 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Odie B; Faulk. Pp. iv, 153. Frontis illustration. Author and subject indexes. Tan cloth lettered in black. Small stain to lower corner of last 3 leaves, rear cover with a bit of some light staining to lower rear cover (not really that bad!). Overall, a fine, crisp copy. A necessary bibliography arranged by sub-subject, from Indians of the lower Colorado River to Cities, Towns and... Read More
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Journalism in California [and] Pacific Coast and Exposition Biographies
by Young, John P.
San Francisco: Chronicle Publishing Co., 1915 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. x, 362pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs; portraits. General index, biographical index. Gray cloth. Slightest of darkening to spine, else a fine copy. Quite comprehensive. Contains a wealth of material on the history of journalism in California, the history of the Chronicle, the newspaper press of San Francisco from the early 1850's, the 1856 Vigilance Committee, the Civil War period, the brothers Charles and M. H. de Young,... Read More
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Emile Zola (1840-1902). Autographed letter, signed. [Beautifully framed].
by ZOLA, Emile
Paris, 1892 Letter. Very fine. No Binding. Signed by Author(s). ZOLA, Emile (1840-1902). Autographed letter, signed. One page. 8x5 inches. In French. 10 lines. With original addressed and postmarked envelope. Two minor creases to letter, where folded. Both items beautifully and professionally matted and framed along with a color lithographed portrait of the author, the whole measuring 23x25½ inches. English translation taped to verso. Very fine. Paris: January 16, 1892. ... Read More
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