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Adams, Glen, introduction. NARRATIVE OF A TOUR FROM THE STATE OF
INDIANA
TO THE
OREGON
TERRITORY
IN THE YEARS 1841 – 2 by Joseph Williams.
Ye Galleon Press: Fairfield,
Washington, 1977, 1st edition thus. #71
of 380 copies. Original white
hardback binding; gold print on front cover and spine; 64 pages; illustrated.
Fine condition, no dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Adams, Robert Hickman.
WHITE CHURCHES OF THE PLAINS:
Examples from
Colorado. Foreword by Thomas Hornsby
Ferril.
Colorado
Associated
University
Press:
Boulder
, 1970, 1st edition. Black
cloth hardback with gold print on spine; illustrated.
Designed by Helen Gentry. Fine
in fine dust jacket.
Allison, Pauline. THE
HISTORY OF
EATON
,
COLORADO
. Privately published: 1963
reprint of the 1942 edition. Inscribed
by author. Original tan wrappers;
black print on front cover; 206 pages; illustrated.
Near fine condition. Price: $40.00
Arps, Louisa Ward.
DENVER
IN SLICES.
Endpaper and dustjacket designed by Gertrude Pierce.
Sage Books:
Denver
,
Colorado
, 1959, 1st edition. Original
beige cloth binding; green print on cover and spine; 268 pages; illustrated.
Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Price: $45.00
(Arvada
Historical Society, Colorado) MORE
THAN GOLD: A History of Arvada
, Colorado, during the Period 1870 – 1904. Researched
and Written by the Publication Committee of the
Arvada
Historical Society. A Contribution
to the
Colorado
Centennial-Bicentennial Year. Published
June 1976, by The
Arvada
Historical Society. Johnson
Publishing Company: Boulder,
Colorado. Original hardbound brown binding;
gold print on cover and spine; 210 pages; maps on endpapers; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$45.00
Athearn, Robert G. WESTWARD
THE BRITON.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, 1st edition.
Original red cloth binding; gold print on spine; 208 pages; illustrated.
Fine in very good plus (lightly sunned) dust jacket.
Price: $45.00
Axford, H. William, editor.
GILPIN COUNTY
GOLD. Peter McFarlane, 1848 –
1929. Mining Entrepreneur in Central
City, Colorado. Sage Books: The Swallow Press,
Inc., Chicago, 1976, 1st edition, 1st printing.
Original cream cloth binding; black print on spine; 210 pages; maps on
endpapers; illustrated. Very fine in
fine dust jacket. Price:
$50.00
Bailey, Delores S. GOD’S
COUNTRY U.S.A., Wall Street, Colorado: The Life and History of Milling, Mining
and Families Along the Switzerland Trail.
Published by Robinson Press, Inc.:
Fort Collins
,
Colorado
, 1982, 1st edition. #249,
signed by author. Original pictorial
hardback binding; 150 pages; illustrated. Very
fine condition. Price:
$75.00
Bair, Everett. WEST
OF
PIKE’S PEAK
. Comet Press Books:
New York
, 1955, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding; silver print on front cover and spine; 73 pages.
Historical novel set in Colorado Rockies.
Fine in good plus dust jacket. Price:
$15.00
Ball, Larry D. THE
UNITED STATES MARSHALS OF
NEW MEXICO
AND
ARIZONA
TERRITORIES
, 1846 – 1912.
University
of
New Mexico Press
:
Albuquerque
, 1978, first edition. Original
brown cloth binding; 315 pages, illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. PRICE: $100.00
Ball, Geo. S., compiler and editor.
GO WEST YOUNG MAN.
Stories of the Pioneers.
Greeley
, and Weld, Colorado
. Privately published.
1st edition. Printed
by Greeley Tribune Republican Publishing Company, 1969.
Original gray cloth binding; black print on cover and spine; illustrated;
248 pages. Inscribed by author.
Fine condition. Price:
$45.00
Ball, Geo. S., author and compiler.
INTO THE SUNSET: Reminiscent of
Early Days in Northern Weld
County. Privately published:
printed by Greeley Tribune-Republican Publishing Company,
Greeley
,
Colorado
, 1966, 1st edition. Inscribed
by author. Original illustrated
brown cloth binding; 185 pages; illustrated.
Fine condition, no dust jacket. Price: $60.00
Barrett,
S.A. POMO
INDIAN BASKETRY. The Rio
Grande Press, Inc.:
Glorieta
,
New Mexico, 1976, 2nd printing. Reprint
of 1908 volume. Original brown
hardback binding with copper and blue print; 309 pages; illustrated; foldout
plate in rear. Fine condition.
Price: $45.00
Bates, Jim. THE
FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF ADAMAN, 1923 – 1973.
Privately printed: Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1973
Limited First Edition, No. 259. Originalblue
cloth binding with gold print; 64 pages; illustrated.
Inscribed by author, also signed by George M. Lindeman, President; Edward
Kirches, Vice-President; and J. Lyman Blakeman, Secretary-Treasurer.
This copy also inscribed by Kenny Englert.
Unusual volume reproduces applications and climbing photos of the first
55 members of club dedicated to cold-climbing
Pikes Peak
. Near fine condition; no dust
jacket. Price
$50.00
Bean, Geraldine B. CHARLES
BOETTCHER: A Study in Pioneer
Western Enterprise. Westview Press:
Boulder
,
Colorado
, 1976, 1st edition. Original
brown cloth binding; black print on cover and spine; 220 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price: $35.00
Becker, Robert H., editor.
THOMAS CHRISTY’S ROAD ACROSS
THE PLAINS: A Guide to the Route from Mormon Crossing, Now Omaha,
Nebraska, to the City of Sacramento, California.
Via the North Side of the
Platte
River
to
Fort
Laramie
; thence to
Casper
,
Wyoming
; following the
Sweetwater
River
to
South Pass.
Thereafter by Sublette’s and
Hudspeth’s Cut-Offs to the Humboldt and
Carson
Rivers, and over the
Sierra Nevada
Mountains
to the Famous Gold Diggings in
California
. Compiled from His Personal
Observations during the Spring and Summer of 1850.
By Thomas Christy of Van Buren County, Iowa together with His Diary of
the Same Journey. Fred A. Rosenstock:
Old West Publishing Company;
Denver,
Colorado, 1969. Designed and printed by
Lawton
and Alfred Kennedy,
San Francisco,
California. Original illustrated cloth
binding; 94 map pages, plus 94 description pages; illustrated.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. 1
of 2000 copies. Price: $125.00
Beebe, Ruth. REMINISICING
ALONG THE SWEETWATER.
Wyoming
, and
Oregon Trail. Printed by the Johnson Publishing
Company:
Boulder
,
Colorado
, 1973, 1st edition. Inscribed
by author. Original cream cloth
binding; black print on front cover and spine; 171 pages; illustrated.
Very good plus condition; two small tears in binding; otherwise clean
with tight spine. Price:
$95.00
Bennett, Horace W. BRIGHT
YELLOW GOLD. The John
C. Winston Company:
Chicago,
Philadelphia,
Toronto
; 1935, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding; gold print on cover and spine; 222 pages; illustrations.
Historical tales of the Pikes Peak Region,
Colorado, especially Cripple Creek. Lengthy
inscription by author. Fine.
Price: $35.00
Bennett, Horace W. SILVER
CROWN OF GLORY. The John C.
Winston Company:
Chicago,
Philadelphia,
Toronto; 1936, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding; gold print on cover and spine; 205 pages; illustrations.
Historical tales of the Pikes Peak Region,
Colorado. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Price: $45.00
Bentley, Margaret V. THE
UPPER SIDE OF THE PIE CRUST: An Early History of Southwestern
Jefferson
County, Conifer – Pine –
Buffalo Creek
,
Colorado. Learning Pathways Inc.:
Evergreen,
Colorado
, 1978, 1st printing. Signed
by author. Original illustrated
wrappers; 346 pages; illustrated. Fine
condition. Price:
$40.00
Beulah Historical Society.
FROM MACE’S HOLE, THE WAY IT
WAS, TO BEULAH, THE WAY IT IS. A
Comprehensive History of Beulah,
Colorado
. Published by The Beulah Historical
Society. Produced by Century One
Press,
Colorado Springs
,
Colorado
, 1979, 1st edition. Original
tan cloth binding; brown print on cover and spine; 240 pages; illustrated.
Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Price:
$45.00
Bevard, Margaret Woodis and George Bevard, editors.
DIARIES OF CLARK AND RUTH
WOODIS: The Story of a
Colorado Homestead, 1913 – 1928. Privately
published: Woodis Enterprises, Inc., 1976, 1st printing.
Continential Photo/Graphics:
Boulder
,
Colorado
. Original illustrated tan wrappers;
unpaginated (approximately 150 pages); illustrated.
Life in Red Cliff and
Gilman
,
Colorado
. Fine condition.
Price: $50.00
Bird, Allan G. SILVERTON
GOLD: The Story of Colorado’s Largest Gold Mine.
History of the Sunnyside Mine. Original
white wrappers with photo illustration on front cover; 152 pages; illustrated.
Privately published, 1986, 1st edition. Fine
condition. Price:
$25.00 SOLD
Black, Robert C. III. ISLAND
IN THE ROCKIES: The History of Grand County,
Colorado, to 1930. Published for the
Grand County Pioneer Society by the Pruett Publishing Company: Boulder,
Colorado, 1969, 1st edition. Original
gray cloth binding; 435 pages; illustrated.
Fine condition, in glassine dust jacket.
Price: $45.00
Bock, John G. IN
CANYON
LAND. Vantage Press:
New York
,
Washington
,
Hollywood; 1964, 1st edition. Life
on the JJ Ranch near La Junta,
Colorado, beginning in 1907 to 1915. Original
red cloth binding; 80 pages; illustrated. Fine
in very good plus dust jacket. Price:
$100.00
Breck, Allen DuPont. WILLIAM
GRAY EVANS, 1855 – 1924: Portrait of a Western Executive.
The
University
of
Denver
: Department of History, 1964, 1st edition.
Alan Swallow, Publisher. Original
brown cloth binding; black and gold print on spine; 290 pages; illustrated.
Department of History Series: The West in American History, Number Four.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Brigham, Lillian Rice, compiler.
COLORADO
TRAVELORE: A Pocket Guide; Romance of
Its Trails, Railroads, Highways and Airways.
The Peerless Printing Company:
Denver, Colorado, 1938, 1st edition. Original
flexible burgundy covers with gold print on cover and spine; 447 pages; foldout
map in rear; map on front endpapers; illustrated.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$45.00
Brill, Charles J. CONQUEST
OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS: Uncensored Narrative of the Battle of the Washita and
Custer’s Southern Campaign. Golden
Saga Series. Golden Saga Publishers:
Oklahoma City
; Kraus Reprint Co.,
Millwood
,
New York
, 1975. Reprint of 1938 edition.
Original green cloth binding’ gold print on spine; 323 pages;
illustrations and foldout map. Fine
condition, no dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Brooks, Louise McNamara.
EARLY HISTORY OF DIVINE SCIENCE.
An informal history of the early years of the Colorado College of Divine
Science and The First Divine Science Church of Denver, 1896 – 1922,
First Divine Science Church: Denver, Colorado, 1963, 1st
edition. Original green cloth
binding; gold print on cover and spine; 127 pages; illustrated.
Fine, no dust jacket. Price:
$25.00
Brookshier, Frank. THE
BURRO.
University
of
Oklahoma Press
:
Norman
, 1974, 1st edition. Original
brown cloth binding; 370 pages; illustrated.
Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
Price: $30.00
Brown, Dee. ACTION
AT BEECHER
ISLAND. Doubleday & Company,
Inc.: Garden City,
New York
, 1967, 1st edition. Original
black cloth binding with gold print on spine; 192 pages.
Near fine in very good dust jacket. Ex-library
stamp on bottom edge. Price:
$25.00
Brown,
Georgina
. THE
SHINING MOUNTAINS. Privately
published: Leadville,
Colorado
, 1976, 1st printing. B&B
Printers, Gunnison, Inc.: Gunnison,
Colorado. Original illustrated wrappers; 252
pages; maps on endpapers. Inscribed
by author. Early
Colorado
history. Very good plus condition.
Price: $25.00
Brown, Margaret Duncan.
SHEPHERDESS OF ELK
RIVER
VALLEY. Gold
Bell
Press: Denver, Colorado, 1967, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding; gold print on spine; 127 pages; illustrated.
Near fine in very good dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Brown, Robert L. AN
EMPIRE OF SILVER: A History of the San Juan Silver Rush.
The Caxton Printers, Ltd.: Caldwell,
Idaho, 1965, 1st edition. Original
black cloth binding; silver print on cover and spine; 328 pages; illustrated;
maps on endpapers. Previous
owner’s bookplate. Fine in near
fine dust jacket. Price:
$75.00
Brown, Robert L. SALOONS
OF THE AMERICAN WEST. Sundance
Books: September, 1978;
Silverton,
Colorado; 1st printing. Original
illustrated hardback binding; 144 pages; illustrated.
Signed by author. Fine
condition. Price:
$25.00
Browne, Lina Fergusson.
TRADER OF THE
SANTA FE TRAIL
: Memoirs of Franz Huning. The
University
of
Albuquerque, in collaboration with Calvin Horn Publisher, Inc.: Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1973, 1st edition. Original
tan cloth binding; gold print on cover and spine; 153 pages.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$40.00
Brush, Helen N. and Dittman, Catherine P.
INDIAN HILLS: The Place, the
Times, the People. Published
by Graphic Impressions, Inc.,
Denver
,
Colorado
, 1976, 1st edition. #92
of 300 copies, signed by authors. Original
brown hardback with gold print on spine; 114 pages; illustrated.
Near fine in very good dust jacket. Price:
$50.00
Burroughs, John Rolfe.
STEAMBOAT IN THE
ROCKIES
. Illustrated by Dale
Crawford. The Old Army Press:
Fort Collins
,
Colorado
, 1974, 1st edition. Original
brown cloth binding with gold print on spine; 208 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$35.00
Bury, Susan and John, compilers and editors.
THIS IS WHAT I REMEMBER, by and
about the People of
White River
Country. Photography by
John Bury. Published by The
Rio
Blanco
County
Historical Society, Inc., Meeker,
Colorado
, 1972, 1st edition. Printed
by The Meeker Herald, Meeker,
Colorado
. Original illustrated hardback
covers; 231 pages; illustrated with maps. Very
good plus condition. Price: $125.00
Calvert,
Virginia. HAPPY
AS THE DAYS GO BY. Johnson
Publishing Company:
Boulder,
Colorado, 1964, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding; gold print on cover and spine; 94 pages; illustrated.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Life
on the Kansas
prairie. Price:
$15.00
Cairns, Mary Lyons.
GRAND
LAKE
In the Olden Days: A Compilation of Grand
Lake, The Pioneers and The Olden Days. The
World Press, Inc.: Denver, Colorado, 1971. Original red cloth binding
with black print on cover and spine; 304 pages; illustrated; maps on endpapers.
Fine, no dust jacket. Price:
$25.00
Camp, Charles L., editor.
JOHN DOBLE’S JOURNAL AND
LETTERS FROM THE MINES: Mokelumne Hill, Jackson, Volcano and San Francisco, 1851
– 1865. The Old West
Publishing Company: Denver,
Colorado, 1962, 1st edition. 1 of
1000. Designed and printed by Lawton
Kennedy,
San Francisco. Original illustrated tan cloth
binding; 304 pages, plus index; illustrated, with foldout map.
Fine condition. Price:
$125.00
Camp, Charles L., editor.
PHILO WHITE’S NARRATIVE OF A
CRUIZE IN THE PACIFIC to South America and
California
on the
U.S.
Sloop-of-War “Dale,” 1841 – 1843.
Fred A. Rosenstock: Old West Publishing Company, Denver, Colorado, 1965. 1 of 1000 copies.
Design and printed by
Lawton
and Alfred Kennedy. Original green
cloth illustrated binding; 84 pages; illustrated.
Fine condition, no dust jacket.
Price: $60.00
Campbell, Rosemae Wells.
FROM TRAPPERS TO TOURISTS: Fremont County,
Colorado, 1830 – 1850. The Filter
Press:
Palmer
Lake
,
Colorado
, 1972, 1st edition. Original
burgundy cloth binding; gold print on spine; 244 pages; illustrated.
Fine condition. Price:
$45.00
Campbell, Water S. (Stanley
Vestal) THE
BOOK LOVER’S SOUTHWEST: A Guide to Good Reading.
University
of
Oklahoma Press
:
Norman
, 1955, 1st edition. Blue
cloth binding; white print on front cover and spine; 287 pages.
Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$45.00 SOLD
Carter, Albert F. in collaboration with Kendel, Elizabeth
Hays. FORTY YEARS OF COLORADO
STATE
TEACHERS COLLEGE, formerly the State Normal School of Colorado.
The Tribune-Republican Publishers Company: Greeley,
Colorado, 1930, 1st edition. Original
purple hardback binding with gold print on cover and spine; 395 pages;
illustrated. Very good plus
condition. Price:
$35.00
Carter, Hodding. DOOMED
ROAD OF EMPIRE: The Spanish Trail of Conquest.
With Betty W. Carter. Illustrations
by Don Almquist. McGraw-Hill Book
Company:
New York,
Toronto, London; 1963, 1st edition. Original
orange cloth binding with gold and copper print; 408 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$65.00
(Casper,
Wyoming)
CASPER
CHRONICLES.
Tales and Reminiscences of Early
Casper
as Remembered and Told by Our Parents or Lived by Zontians.
Published by Casper Zonta Club, 1964
Original illustrated wrappers; 107 pages; illustrated.
Articles include: Founding of
Casper
; The Origin of the Wyoming State Flag; Churches; Schools; Word Picture of Old
Goose Egg Ranch; Town Marshal shoots Cy Cowboy; etc.
Near fine condition. Price: $20.00
Chandler, Polly. THIS
IS GEORGETOWN. With Illustrations by Pat
Patterson. Privately published,
1972, 1st edition. Inscribed
by author. Original illustrated
wrappers; 50 pages; illustrated. Near
fine condition. Georgetown,
Clear Creek County,
Colorado. Price:
$30.00
Chapman, Arthur. OUT
WHERE THE WEST BEGINS And Other Western Verses.
Boston
and
New York
: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press
Cambridge
, Published February 1917. Original
brown boards and brown clothing binding; 92 pages.
Fine in very good plus dust jacket; front endpaper corner is clipped.
Price: $12.50
Chronic, John and Halka.
PRAIRIE, PEAK AND PLATEAU: A
Guide to the Geology of
Colorado.
Colorado
Geological Survey Bulletin 32.
Colorado
Geological Survey: Denver,
Colorado, 1972. Original illustrated yellow
wrappers; 126 pages; illustrated. Near
fine condition. Price: $8.50
Cleland, Robert Glass.
THIS RECKLESS BREED OF MEN: The
Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950, 1st edition.
Original blue cloth binding with gold print on spine; 361 pages, plus
index; illustrated. Near fine in
very good plus dust jacket. Price:
$40.00
Clokey, Richard M. WILLIAM
H. ASHLEY: Enterprise
and Politics in the Trans-Mississippi West.
University
of
Oklahoma Press:
Norman, 1980, 1st edition. Original
brown hardback binding; gold print on spine; 305 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$45.00
Clum, John P. IT
ALL HAPPENED IN
TOMBSTONE. Reprinted from Arizona
Historical Review, October 1929, With a foreword and annotations by John D.
Gilchriese. Northland Press:
Flagstaff
,
Arizona
, 1965, 1st separate printing. Original
red and black cloth binding; gold print on spine; 45 pages.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price: $75.00
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