U.S. MILITARY IN THE EARLY WEST
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THE BLACK MILITARY EXPERIENCE IN THE
AMERICAN WEST
Edited by John M. Carroll
New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 1971, first edition,
first printing
Original brown cloth, gold print on spine; 591 pages,
illustrated
Condition: near fine in dust jacket
Price:
$100.00
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ROLL CALL AT THE ALAMO
By Phil Rosenthal and Bill
Groneman
Volume 1: Souce Texana
Series
The Old Army Press, Ft.
Collins, Colorado, published 1985. Limited authographed edition, 1 of 500
copies signed by the authors.
Original white cloth boards
with red cloth binding; silver print on spine; 109 pages. Near fine
condition; no dust jacket, as issued.
Price:
$65.00 SOLD
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FORT CASPAR (Platte Bridge
Station)
by Alfred James Mokler
Comprising a Description of
the Killing of Lieutenant Caspar W. Collins and the Massacre of Sergeant Amos J.
Custard and Twenty-Four of their Comrades July 26, 1865.
The Prairie Publishing
Company, Casper, Wyoming, 1939. First edition: original illustrated
wrappers; 74 pages; complete with illustrations and maps. Condition: near
fine condition.
Price:
$100.00
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ROBERT E. LEE ON THE RIO
GRANDE: The Correspondence of Robert E.
Lee on the Texas Border, 1860.
Edited by John H. Jenkins
Jenkins Publishing Company:
Austin, Texas, 1988. Original tan stiff wrappers: 24 pages; "Season
Greetings from John and Maureen Jenkins" card laid in; very fine condition.
Price:
$20.00
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THE SEIGE & TAKING OF
THE ALAMO
By General Miguel A. Sanchez
Lamego
Translated by Consuelo
Velasco
Some comments on the Battle
by J. Hefter.
The Press of the Territorian;
printed by The Blue Feather Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1968. First
edition, #56 of 1,500 copies; signed by author, publisher, translator, book
designer, artist, printer, binder, and publisher.
Original red and green cloth
boards; white spine with gold print; 54 pages; maps and illustrations; in
original publisher's slipcase. Condition: fine in near fine slipcase.
Price:
$125.00 SOLD
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Athearn, Robert G. WILLIAM
TECUMSEH
SHERMAN
AND THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST.
Norman
:
University
of
Oklahoma Press
, 1956, first edition. Original gray
cloth binding with blue and white lettering on spine; 371 pages; complete with
all illustrations and maps. Fine in
very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Price:
$50.00
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Davidson, Homer K. BLACK
JACK DAVIDSON: A Cavalry Commander on the Western Frontier: the Life of
General John W. Davidson. The Arthur
H. Clark Company:
Glendale,
California, 1974. Original blue cloth binding;
gold print o spine; 273 pages; complete with all illustrations and maps.
First edition in dust jacket. Fine
in fine dust jacket. Price:
$60.00
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Frazer, Robert W., editor and with an
introduction by.
MANSFIELD
ON THE CONDITION OF THE WESTERN
FORTS, 1853 – 54.
University
of
Oklahoma
Press:
Norman
,
Oklahoma
, 1963. First edition, signed
by author. Original green
cloth binding; black and gold print on spine; 254 pages; illustrated.
Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
Price:
$65.00
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Mattes, Merrill J. INDIANS,
INFANTS AND INFANTRY: Andrew and Elizabeth Burt on the Frontier.
Fred Rosenstock, The Old West Publishing Company, Denver, Colorado, 1960,
first edition. Signed by author.
Original blue cloth binding; gold embossing on spine; 304 pages;
illustrated. Fine in near fine dust
jacket. Price:
$60.00
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BOOTS AND SADDLES: or, Life in Dakota with General Custer,
OR
LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER, by Elizabeth B. Custer, with Portrait and Map; New York and
London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, copyright 1885. First edition,
second issue; 312 pages. Remarkable condition: strong, tight binding;
bright covers, only a bit worn at corners of toe and head of spine; pages are
bright and fresh. Spine also bright. Price:
$200.00
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THE STORY OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN: Custer's
Last Fight, by Lieut. Col. W.A. Graham.
The Century Company: New York and London; 1926; first
edition; 174 pages. No dust jacket. Book is in very good plus to
near fine condition: binding shows little wear; pages are clean and bright;
spine is tight and strong with only a lightly noticeable bit of wear.
Illustrated with 23 plates and 2 foldout maps. Price: $125.00
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HARDTACK
AND COFFEE or The Handwritten Story of Army Life, including
chapters on Enlisting, Life in Tents and Log Huts, Jonahs and Beats, Offences
and Punishments, Raw Recruits, Foraging, Corps and Corps Badges, The Wagon
Trains, The Army Mule, The Engineer Corps, The Signal Corps, etc., by John D.
Billings, past Department Commander of Massachusetts G.A.R., formerly of
Sickles' Third and Hancock's Second Corps, Army of the Potomac.
Illustrated with six elegant color plates; and over two hundred original
sketches by Charles W. Reed, member of Ninth Massachusetts Battery, also
Assistant Engineer on General Warren's Staff, Fifth Corps, Army of the
Potomac. Boston: George M. Smith & Co., 1889 (first edition, 1887);
electrotyped by C.J. Peters and Son, Boston. Book in its original
illustrated brown cloth binding with gold lettering on front cover and spine;
408 pages. Book is in very good plus condition: nicks of light wear to
corners, toe and head of spine; front flyleaf has short inscription from a
previous owner (1890); binding is strong and tight; pages are clean and
bright. Price: $250.00
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SEVENTY
YEARS ON THE FRONTIER: Alexander Majors' Memoirs of a Lifetime on
the Border, with a Preface by "Buffalo Bill" (General W.F. Cody),
edited by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham. Chicago and New York: Rand McNally
& Company, Publishers, 1893, first edition. Book is in its original
illustrated blue cloth binding with gold embossing on front cover and spine; 325
pages, plus 3 pages of advertisements; original endpapers and flyleafs -- no
inscriptions. Book is in very good plus to near fine condition; very light
wear showing on head and toe of spine; corners somewhat bumped with a touch of
wear. Memoir containing the history of the firm of Russell, Majors &
Waddell. Several illustrations. PRICE:
$95.00
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Custer book
TENTING
ON THE PLAINS or General Custer in Kansas and Texas. By
Elizabeth B. Custer. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887,
first edition. Book is in its original illustrated brown cloth binding
with gold embossing on front cover and spine; Custer medal and 7th Cavalry flags
on front; gold-embossed sword on spine. Binding is strong and tight;
however, cloth shows some wear and corner, toe and head of spine. Book is
702 pages in length; pages are generally clean and bright; some foxing on
frontis Custer plate, faint ghost of this Custer image on tissue paper and title
page. Twenty-nine steel-engraved illustrations. Original endpapers
and flylears; no inscriptions. PRICE:
$300.00
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Inscribed by author
THE
HISTORY OF THE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO,
from 1846 to 1851 by the Government of the United States together with
Biographical Sketches of Men Prominent in the Conduct of the Government During
that Period. By Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Vice-President New Mexico
Historical Society. Denver, Colorado: The Smith-Brooks Company,
Publishers, 1909. First edition, Inscribed by Twitchell. Book is in
its original illustrated brown cloth binding with gold embossing on front cover
and spine, and tipped on colored illustration; 394 pages. Binding is
strong and tight; some light wear to corners, head and toe of spine.
Printed on coated paper; numerous drawings and half-tone photograph
illustrations. Inscribed by Twitchell on front flylleaf; otherwise, no
other markings on endpapers and flyleafs. Overall, book is in very good
condition. $450.00
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Life of Custer
A
COMPLETE LIFE OF GENERAL GEORGE A. CUSTER, Major-General of
Volunteers, Brevet Major-General U.S. Army, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh U.S.
Cavalry, by Frederick Whittaker. Sheldon & Company, New York, 1876,
first edition, in association with A.G. Nettleton & Co.; Bryan, Brand &
Co.; Crocker & Stickney; H.W. Kelley; and, A. Roman & Co. Book is
in its original illustrated green cloth binding, with gold embossing on front
cover and spine; 648 pages, indexed. Green cloth binding is strong
and tight; however, exterior shows some wear: bumped corners; frayed head and
toe of spine; back cover gutter separating (3 or so inches from top down), but
all cloth still present. Endpapers and flyleafs are original with a
previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Steel-engraved frontis of Custer
foxed, as is title page; however, generally all other pages are clean and
bright. New acid-free tissue paper between frontis plate and title
page. All illustrations present. PRICE:
$400.00
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