COLORADO
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SUMMERING IN COLORADO
Richards & Co., Publishers
No. 372 Larimer Street
Denver, Colorado Territory, 1874
Press of Wm N. Byers
Original green cloth binding; gold print on front cover;
158 pages, plus advertisements.
14 original albumen prints by Joseph Collier tipped into book.
Albumens are scenes from around the Colorado Territory, such
as Central City, Garden of the Gods, Boulder Falls, Clear Creek Canon along the
Colorado Central Railway, On the Grand River, etc.
Condition: very good plus; cloth cover shows some wear;
however, pages are clean and fresh; photographs are bright and detailed.
$1,750.00
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REPORT OF CHERRY CREEK COMMISSION, May, 1913
Submitted by A. Lincoln Fellows; J.B. Hunter; and, C.A. Trease,
Cherry Creek Flood Commission
Original black cloth binding with gold print on front cover;
159 pages; two foldout maps; two foldout charts; numerous half-tone photographs.
The Smith-Brooks Press: Denver, Colorado, 1913, first edition.
"On July 14, 1912, a flood occurred in the Cherry Creek
drainage basin within and above the city of Denver, which resulted in great
damage to the city and adjacent territory, and again aroused the city officials
and the various civic bodies to the necessity of preparing and adopting plans
for the control of Cherry Creek floods ...."
Condition: near fine; pages are clean and bright; binding is
solid.
Price:
$200.00
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FRED FEARNOT'S RANCH OR ROUGHING IT IN
COLORADO And Other Stories
By Hal. Standish
Published in Work and Win, An Interesting Weekly for Young
America. No. 772, New York, September 19, 1913. Original illustrated
wrappers; 30 pages, with 2 pages of advertisements. Condition: wrappers
are near fine; interior pages browning; uncut pages.
Fictional account of hero, Fred Fearnot, and his adventures
in Colorado.
Price:
$50.00
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FRED FEARNOT'S IN COLORADO; OR, RUNNING A
SHEEP RANCHE
By Hal. Standish
Published in Work and Win, An Interesting Weekly for Young
America. No. 207, New York, November 21, 1902. Original illustrated
wrappers; 30 pages, with 2 pages of advertisements. Condition: wrappers
are very good with reinforcing to spine; interior pages browning.
Fictional account of hero, Fred Fearnot, and his adventures
in Colorado.
Price:
$65.00
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HOLLADAY STREET
By Max Miller
A Signet Book, published by The New American Library: New
York, May 1962, first printing.
Original illustrated covers; paperback; 220 pages, plus
advertisements; illustrated.
This copy was specially rebound by Fred and Jo Mazzulla in red
leather with gold print on front cover and spine; plus, a 7-page index inserted
before back cover.
"The incredible but true story of Colorado's sporting
ladies whose easy virtue won them fame and fortune in the most infamous
red-light district of the Golden West."
Condition: very fine; pages have lightly browned due to the
quality paper used in the publishing process; however, spine is tight and pages
are bright, clean and fresh.
Price:
$200.00
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Held in Denver, December 20, 1875, to frame a
Constitution for the State of
Colorado
, together with the Enabling Act, passed by the Congress of the
United States
and Approved March 3, 1875, The Address to the People, Issued by the
Convention, The Constitution as Adopted and the President’s Proclamation.
Published by Authority. Timothy O'Connor, Secretary of
State.
Denver,
Colorado: The Smith-Brooks Press, State Printers, 1907.
Original black cloth binding with gold print on spine; 778
pages.
Fine condition.
Price: $600.00
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NOTIONS
THE A.T. LEWIS &
SON DRY GOODS COMPANY,
Denver
,
Colorado
. Bound volume of a compilation of
“in-house” newsletters for the A.T. Lewis Company and its employees.
Newsletters filled with "in-house" news, sales advice, morale
boosting, company jokes, information about Company inventory and employee
relations.
Volume 41144 (intentional misprint?), Number 1 (Saturday,
October 27, 1906) through Volume 1, No. 52 (Saturday, October 19, 1907).
Approximately 600 pages. Bound
in original green cloth with gold print on spine.
Fine condition.
Price:
$500.00
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Historical and Descriptive of Fremont and Custer
Counties
SOUTHERN
COLORADO. HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE OF FREMONT AND CUSTER COUNTIES,
with their Principal Towns. Canon City and Other Towns, Fremont
County. Rosita, Silver Cliff, Ula, and Wet Mountain Valley, Custer
County. With a description of the Immense Mineral Regions of Fremont and
Custer Counties. Illustrated. Canon City: by Binckley &
Hartwell, 1879, first edition. Book is in its original printed boards and
brown cloth binding; 136 pages. Advertisements on endpapers.
Illustrated with fine steel-engravings. One of the first detailed and
significant promotional publications on the Hardscrabble Mining District, its
communities, mines, and people. Also, an important publication for early
Fremont County, its mineral resources, ranching and agricultural opportunities,
communities and people. Boards show scuffing and bumped corners; binding
is strong but has several wear spots and some splitting; pages are clean and
bright. Overall condition of book: very good. $4,500.00
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THE
ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOLD REGIONS , containing sketches of its History,
Geography, Botany, Geology, Mineralogy and Gold Mines, and their present
operations. With a complete history of the mills for reducing quartz now
operating. Illustrated by two maps. By S.W. Burt & E.L.
Berthoud, Denver City, J.T.: published by the Rocket Mountain News Printing Co.,
1861 -- Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the Colorado State Historical
Society Library, with introductory notes by James G. Hodgson, PH.D., F.L.A.,
Emeritus Director of Libraries, Colorado State University. Old West
Publishing Company, Denver, Colorado, 1962. One of 320 copies, printed by
Lawton Company. Book is in its original brown cloth binding with black
print on cover and gold-embossing on spine; 144 pages, with facsimiles of
original front and back covers bound in. Five facsimile maps and charts in
rear pocket. Condition: near fine; no dust jacket, as issued. Price:
$150.00
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PLEASE VISIT OUR OTHER COLORADO PAGES:
COLORADO
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