Collins, Dabney Otis.
LAND
OF TALL SKIES: A Pageant of the Colorado High
Plains. Illustrated by Paul
Busch. Century One Press:
Colorado Springs,
Colorado, 1977, 1st edition. Original
illustrated brown hardback binding; 159 pages; illustrations.
Fine, no dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Colton, Harold S. BLACK
SAND: Prehistory in
Northern Arizona
.
University
of
New Mexico Press
: Albuquerque, 1960, 1st edition. Original
brown cloth binding; black print on front cover and spine; 132 pages; maps on
endpapers; illustrated. Fine in fine
dust jacket. Price: $30.00
Colton, Harold S. KACHINA
DOLLS with a Key to Their Identification.
The
University
of
New Mexico:
Albuquerque, 1949, 1st edition. Original
beige cloth binding; red print on front cover and spine; 144 pages; illustrated.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price: $50.00
Colville, Ruth Marie, preface. TWIN
MOUNTAIN, Books I and II. Privately
published, 1st printings. History
of Del Norte and
Twin Mountain,
Colorado. Volume I: 1978, original
illustrated blue wrappers; 231 pages; illustrated; inscribed by Ruth Davie,
resident and contributor; near fine condition.
Volume II: published in 1984, 273 pages; original illustrated green
wrappers; illustrated; fine condition. Price:
$35.00
Conrow, Robert. FIELD
DAYS: The Life, Times, and Reputation of Eugene Field.
Charles Scribner’s Sons:
New York, 1974, 1st edition. Original
gold and black printed orange boards; purple cloth binding; 244 pages;
illustrated. Fine in near fine dust
jacket. Price:
$30.00
Cook, Edward Magruder, compiler and editor.
JUSTIFIED BY HONOR: Highlights
in the Life of General James William Denver.
Published by the Higher Education Publications, Inc.,
Falls Church,
Virginia, 1988, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding; gold print on cover and spine; 176 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Cook, John R. THE
BORDER AND THE BUFFALO: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains.
The Citadel Press: New York, 1967, 1st edition thus. Reprint
of 1907 edition. Original yellow
cloth binding with black print on spine; 454 pages; frontispiece photograph.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$35.00
Cooley, Myra. MEET
ME ON THE GREEN: The Saga of Beads and Buckskin – Historical Incidents of the
Early West. The
William-Frederick Press: New York, 1960, 1st edition. Original
green cloth binding, gold print on cover and spine; 240 pages.
Signed by author. Fine in
near fine dust jacket. Price:
$35.00
Cooper, Courtney Ryley.
THE CROSS-CUT.
With Frontispiece by George W. Gage.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, May 1921, 1st edition.
Original illustrated green cloth binding; 321 pages.
Mining novel set in historical background of Clear Creek,
Colorado. Near fine condition.
Price: $30.00
Cooper, Courtney Ryley.
HIGH COUNTRY: The
Rockies
Yesterday and To-Day. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, May 1926, 1st edition.
Original purple cloth illustrated binding; 294 pages; illustrated.
Informal history of Colorado. Near fine condition.
Price: $30.00
Coquoz, Rene L. THE
EARLY YEARS OF COLORADO.
Carlton
Press: New York, 1965, 1st printing. Original
black cloth binding; silver print on spine; 88 pages.
Inscribed by author. Fine in
fine dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Crouse, Nellis M. LA
VERENDRYE: Fur Trader and Explorer.
Cornell
University
Press: Ithaca,
New York, 1956, 1st edition. Original
green cloth binding; silver print on front cover and spine; illustrated; foldout
maps. Review copy.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$50.00
Cutter, Donald C. OVER
THE SANTA FE TRAIL, 1857, from the Original 1905 edition by William B. Napton.
Published by The Stagecoach Press: Santa Fe, 1964, 1st regular edition. 1
of 650 copies.
Burgundy
cloth; gold print on spine; 73 pages. Fine
in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Daney, Mabel Stevenson.
PUEBLO’S FIRST CROSS:
Episcopal Church History. Privately
printed, 1966, 1st edition. No
publisher; no printer. Original blue
cloth binding; silver print on spine; 244 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price: $25.00
Dary, David A. THE
BUFFALO
BOOK: The Full Saga of the American Animal.
Sage Books. The Swallow
Press, Inc.: Chicago, 1974, 1st edition, 1st printing.
Original brown cloth binding; black print on spine; 374 pages;
illustrated. Fine in near fine dust
jacket. Price: $35.00
Davis, Sally and Baldwin, Betty. DENVER
DWELLINGS AND DESCENDANTS.
Sage Books:
Denver,
Colorado, 1963, 1st edition. Original
pink cloth binding with black print on spine; 250 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$35.00
Delaney, Dr. R.W. BLUE
COATS, RED SKINS & BLACK GOWNS: 100 Years of
Fort
Lewis.
Durango
Herald: Durango,
Colorado, 1977, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding; gold print on cover and spine; 179 pages; illustrated.
Fine condition, no dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Dentzel, Carl Schaefer, introduction.
GRANVILLE STUART: Diary
and Sketchbook of a Journey to “
America
” in 1866, and Return Trip up the Missouri River to
Fort Benton,
Montana. Reprinted from the Virginia City
Montana
Post of January 1867.
Los Angeles:
Dawson’s Book Shop, 1963, 1st edition thus.
Plantin Press,
Los Angeles. Original two-tone cloth binding
(white and green); 73 pages; illustrated; gold print on spine.
Fine condition. Price:
$45.00
De Smet, Revered P. J.
NEW INDIAN SKETCHES.
New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co. Original
embossed purple hardcover binding with gold and black print; 175 pages.
1865 edition (2nd edition).
Spine faded but strong; covers rubbed; library markings on inside cover
and title page only. Good plus to
very good. Price: $100.00
Dick, Everett. SOD-HOUSE
FRONTIER, 1854 – 1890: A Social History of the Northern Plains from the
Creation of
Kansas
&
Nebraska
to the Admission of the
Dakotas
. Johnsen Publishing
Company:
Lincoln,
Nebraska, 1954, 1st edition thus. American
Book – Stratford Press, Inc., New York. Original gray cloth binding;
burgundy print on front cover and spine; 549 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket; very slight slipcock to spine.
Price: $45.00
Dillon, Richard H., editor and annotator.
CALIFORNIA
TRAIL HERD: The 1850
Missouri-to-California
Journal of Cyrus C. Loveland. The
Talisman Press: Los Gatos,
California, 1961, 1st edition. 1 of
750 copies. Original burgundy cloth
binding, label tipped on spine; maps on endpapers; frontispiece.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$35.00
Dillon, Richard H., editor and introduction.
THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA. The Accounts of Messrs.
Hittell, Marshall and Waite, reprinted herein, were first published in The
Century Magazine in February and May of 1891.
John S. Hittell. James W.
Marshall. Edwin G. Waite.
Lewis Osborne: Pal Alto, 1968, #186 of 2100 copies.
Original cream cloth binding; gold print on front cover and spine; maps
on endpapers; 81 pages; Californian folded insert; illustrated.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price: $45.00
Dillon, Richard H., introduction.
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND
ADVENTURES OF MAJOR C. BOLIN, Alias David Butler, as related by Himself
to A.A. Sargent. Lewis Osborne: Palo Alto, 1966, 1st printing. Original
green cloth binding with gold print on front cover and spine; 87 pages; maps on
endpapers; illustrations; Nevada Democrat insert.
Near fine. Price:
$30.00
Dippie, Brian W., editor.
PAPER TALK.
CHARLIE RUSSELL’S AMERICAN WEST.
A Ridge Press Book. Alfred A.
Knopf,
New York
, 1979 in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art.
1st edition. Original
hardback brown binding with gold print on spine; 224 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$50.00
Dodge, Bertha S. THE
ROAD WEST: Sage of the 35th Parallel.
University
of
New Mexico Press:
Albuquerque, 1980, 1st edition. Original
brown cloth binding; gold print on spine; 220 pages; maps; illustrations.
Very fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$35.00
Donaldson, Stanley. A
MEASURE OF SEEING. The Pinon
Press: Saguache,
Colorado, 1959, 1st edition. Poems
of the West, especially Colorado. Original green cloth binding with
gold print on cover and spine; 88 pages. Fine
in fine dust jacket. Price: $35.00
Donnelle, A.J., compiled and edited.
CYCLORAMA OF CUSTER’S LAST
BATTLE or The Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Promontory Press: New York City, 1966 (original, 1889). Original
boards; 30 pages; illustrated. Fine
in fine dust jacket. Price:
$25.00
Drake, Benjamin. THE
LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF BLACK HAWK WITH SKETCHES OF KEOKUK, The Sac and Fox
Indians, and the Late Black Hawk War.
Cincinnati: George Conclin; Stereotyped by J.A. James; 1849, 7th edition –
improved. Original black cloth
binding; repair to spine; 288 pages, with illustrations.
Good plus condition. Price:
$85.00
Drummond, Donald. ADOBE.
Privately published: The Press of Colorado State College of Education;
Greeley,
Colorado, August, 1938. #75 of 200.
Original printed gray wrappers; 31pages.
Western poetry Near fine
condition. Price:
$25.00
Dunne, Peter Masten. JUAN
ANTONIO BALTHASAR, Padre Visitador to the
Sonora
Frontier, 1744 – 1745, Two Original Reports.
Arizona Pioneers’ Historical Society: Tucson,
Arizona, 1957, 1st edition. 1 of
600 copies. Design and printed by
Lawton Kennedy. Original illustrated
gray cloth binding; gold print on front cover and spine; 122 pages, plus index;
folding map in rear pocket. Fine
condition, no dust jacket. Price: $25.00
Dunning, Charles H. ROCK
TO RICHES: The Story of American Mining … Past, Present and Future …
as reflected in the colorful History of Mining in
Arizona
, the Nation’s Greatest Bonanza. Illustrated
by Larry Toschik. Southwest
Publishing Company, Inc.: Phoenix,
Arizona, 1959, 1st edition. Inscribed
by author to Otis A. King. Original
brown cloth binding; 406 pages; illustrated.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$45.00
Dunning, Harold Marion.
THE RAINBOW BY MOONLIGHT.
A novel that takes place on both sides of the Continental Divide in the Rocky
Mountain
National Park. Johnson Publishing Company:
Boulder,
Colorado, 1958, 1st edition. Inscribed
by author. Original blue cloth
binding; silver print on front cover and spine; 186 pages; illustrated; maps on
endpapers. Fine in near fine dust
jacket. Price:
$45.00
Duvall, Laura S.
COLORADO
IN VERSE AND PICTURE, 1916 – 1928.
Welch-Haffner Printing Company, Printers, Denver,
Colorado; published September 1928. Original
tan wrappers; gold and brown print on cover; 206 pages; illustrations.
Inscribed by author. Near
fine condition. Price:
$35.00
Dyer, John, text;
Gunnufson,
Kent, photographer. TRACKING THE SNOW-SHOE ITINERANT.
A Snowstorm Publication: Breckenridge,
Colorado, 1981, 1st edition. Original
black cloth binding with silver print on spine; 127 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$25.00
Eaton, Herbert. THE
OVERLAND TRAIL IN CALIFORNIA
IN 1852. Capricorn Books:
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1974, 1st edition. Original
yellow cloth binding with gold print on spine; 330 pages; illustrated; maps on
endpapers. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Price: $35.00
Eberhart, Perry. GHOSTS
OF THE COLORADO PLAINS. Swallow
Press/Ohio University Press:
Athens,
Ohio,
London; 1986, 1st edition. Original
green cloth binding, with gold print on spine; 253 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$25.00
Ellis, Amanda M. THE
STRANGE, UNCERTAIN YEARS: An Informal Account of Life in Six
Colorado
Communities. The Shoe
String Press, Inc.: Hamden,
Connecticut, 1959, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding with gold print on spine; 423 pages; illustrated.
Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
Price: $30.00
Ellis, Fern D. COME
BACK TO MY VALLEY: Historical Remembrances of Mancos,
Colorado. Cortez Printers: Cortez,
Colorado, 1976, 1st printing. Original
color photographic wrappers; 201 pages; illustrated.
Inscribed by author. Very
good plus to near fine. Price:
$30.00
Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt.
WASHINGTON
IRVING
ON THE PRAIRIE Or A Narrative of a Tour of the Southwest in the Year 1832.
Edited by
Stanley
T. Williams and Barbara D. Simison. New York: American Book Company, 1937, 1st edition.
Original blue cloth binding, gold print on cover and spine; 152 pages.
Fine in very good plus price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $40.00
Everett, George G. and Hutchinson, Dr. Wendell F.
UNDER THE ANGEL OF SHAVANO.
Golden
Bell
Press: Denver,
Colorado, 1963, 1st edition. Signed
by both authors. Original blue cloth
binding with gold print on cover and spine; 526 pages; illustrated.
Near fine in good plus dust jacket (large piece of dust jacket missing on
back panel). SOLD
Falbo, Ernest, translator and editor.
CALIFORNIA AND OVERLAND DIARIES
OF COUNT LEONETTO CIPRIANI from 1853 through 1871, Containing the
account of his cattle drive from Missouri to California in 1853; a visit with
Brigham Young in the Mormon settlement of Salt lake City; the assembling of his
elegant prefabricated home in Belmont, the first consequence on the San
Francisco peninsula, later to become The Ralston Mansion.
Published by The Champoeg Press: Portland,
Oregon, 1962; 1 of 750 copies. Design and
printed by Lawton Kennedy, San Francisco. Original red cloth binding; gold
print on cover and spine; 148 pages, plus index.
Condition: very fine, uncut pages; no dust jacket.
Price: $45.00
Fallis, Edwina H. WHEN
DENVER
AND I WERE YOUNG. With
Drawings by Jeannie Pear. Big
Mountain Press: Denver,
Colorado, 1956, 1st edition. Original
beige cloth binding with brown print on cover and spine; 198 pages; maps on
endpapers. Previous owner’s
bookplate on back endpaper. Near
fine in near fine dust jacket. Price: $30.00
Ferril, Thomas Hornsby, introduction.
LETTERS OF THE
PIKE’S PEAK
GOLD RUSH (or Early Day Letters from Auraria).
Early-Day Letters from Libeus Barney, reprinted from The Bennington
Banner, Vermont, 1859 – 1860. By Libeus Barney.
And a Facsimile of the Famous Buell-Dillingham Map of the
Colorado
Gold Region. The Talisman Press:
San Jose
,
California
, 1959; designed and printed by robert
Greenwood
and Newton Baird; 975 copies, May 1959. Original
gray boards, illustrated with red cloth binding, gold print on spine; 97 pages.
Very fine in fine dust jacket. Price: $35.00
Fewkes, Jesse Walter. HOPI
KATCINAS DRAWN BY NATIVE ARTISTS. Reprint
of Smithsonian Insitution Bureau of American Ehtnology Annual Report 1903.
The Rio Grande Press, Inc.: Glorietta,
New Mexico, 1976, 4th printing. Original
black hardback binding with red, blue and copper print on cover and spine; 190
pages; illustrated; maps on endpapers. Fine
condition. Price: $35.00
Fiester, Mark. BLASTED
BELOVED BRECKENRIDGE. Pruett
Publishing Company: Boulder,
Colorado, 1973, 3rd printing. Original
hardbound green binding; gold print on spine; 348 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$35.00
Fischer, R.P. and Luedke, R.G.
MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE
UNCOMPAHGRE PRIMITIVE AREA COLORADO. Studies Related to
Wilderness – Primitive Areas. Geological
Survey Bulletin 1261-C. An
evaluation of the mineral potential of the area.
United States
Government Printing Office, Washington: 1968. Original illustrated
wrappers; 91 pages; complete with all tables and figures, as well as 3 maps in
pocket. Near fine condition.
Price: $30.00
FitzPatrick, V.S. THE
LAST FRONTIER: The Saga of Moffat County,
Colorado
,
U.S.A., from
the Day When It Was Raw and Rugged Wilderness, Locked in Isolation by the
Towering Bastions of the Continental Divide until Yesterday.
True History by Those Who Made It. Privately
printed, 1967, 1st printing. Original
printed gray wrappers; 64 pages; several illustrations.
Very good plus condition. First
publication of this 3-volume series; however, this is an early printing in
pamphlet form, later expanded. PRICE:
$125.00
FitzPatrick, V.S. and Milheim, John.
BLUE
MOUNTAIN
AND BLACK MIDNIGHT.
Privately published, 1979, 1st edition.
Original red hardcover binding with gold print; 200 pages; with foldout
map. Fine condition. SOLD
FitzPatrick, V.S. THE
LAST FRONTIER, Volume II. Published
by Steamboat Pilot,
Steamboat Springs,
Colorado, 1976, 1st edition. Original
red hardback binding with gold print; 248 pages, plus index; illustrated.
Fine condition. PRICE:
$100.00
FitzPatrick, V.S. THE
LAST FRONTIER, Volume III. Published
by Steamboat Pilot,
Steamboat Springs,
Colorado, 1978, 1st edition. Original
brown hardback binding with gold print; 323 pages, illustrated.
Fine condition. PRICE:
$100.00
France, L.B. MOUNTAIN TRAILS AND PARKS IN COLORADO.
Denver,
Colorado: Chain, Hardy & Co., Booksellers and Publishers, 1888, 2nd
edition. Original illustrated gold
and black embossed brown cloth binding; 224 pages; illustrated.
Near fine condition. Price:
$95.00
Frandsen, Maude Linstrom.
ALL THE WAY: An Account of the
Development of a City and a Church.
History of Brighton,
Colorado. Privately published, 1962, 1st
edition. Original blue cloth
binding; gold print o cover and spine; 127 pages; illustrated.
Inscribed by author. Near
fine condition; no dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Frech, Mary L., State Editor.
CHRONOLOGY AND DOCUMENTARY
HANDBOOK OF THE STATE OF
COLORADO. William F. Swindler,
Series Editor. Oceana Publications,
Inc.: Dobbs Ferry,
New York, 1973, 1st printing. Volume
6 in the series of CHRONOLOGIES AND DOCUMENTARY HANDBOOKS OF THE STATES.
Original beige cloth binding with gold print on cover and spine; 103
pages. Very good plus condition.
Price: $30.00
Freeman, Ira S. A
HISTORY OF
MONTEZUMA COUNTY, COLORADO:
Land
of
Promise
and Fulfillment. Being a
Review of Prehistoric Races and an Account of the Earliest Settlement by the
White Man and Subsequent events and development to the present Day.
Johnson Publishing Company: Boulder,
Colorado, 1958, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding with black print on front cover and spine; 323 pages;
illustrated. Fine in near fine dust
jacket. Price:
$100.00
Frost, Lawrence A. THE
COURT-MARTIAL OF GENERAL GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER.
University
of
Oklahoma Press:
Norman, 1968, 1st edition. Original
brown cloth binding; 280 pages; illustrated.
Fine in very good plus dust jacket. Price:
$45.00
Gadsby, George M.
UTAH’S FIRST CENTURY!
Sagebrush and Pioneer to a Treasure House in the Mountains.
The Newcomen Society in North America:
New York, San Francisco,
Montreal, June 1951, 2nd printing. Original
white printed wrappers; 40 pages; illustrated.
Very good condition. Price:
$27.50
Gage, Jack R. TENSLEEP
AND NO REST: An Historical Account of the Range War of the Big Horns in Wyoming. Prairie Publishing
Company: Casper,
Wyoming, 2nd edition, 1959. Original
red cloth binding; gold print on front cover and spine; 222 pages, plus
appendage; illustrated. Fine in fine
dust jacket. Price: $35.00
Galey, Mary. THE
GRAND ASSEMBLY: The Story of Life at the
Colorado Chautauqua. A Description
in some detail of the growth of the Chautauqua in Boulder, the forces, rigors
and adversities of time that acted on its development and maturation, as well as
some observations on its recent renewal and revitalization.
Flatiron Press:
Boulder,
Colorado, 1981, 1st edition. Illustrated
hardback in dust jacket; 154 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Galvin, John, editor. THE
FIRST SPANISH ENTRY INTO SAN FRANCISCO BAY, 1775,
The Original narrative, hitherto unpublished, by Fr Vincente Maria, and
further details by participants in the first explorations of the Bay’s waters,
together with four contemporary maps and six illustrations in full colour from
the brush and pencil of Louis Choris, who was at San Francisco in 1816.
Published by John Howell Books:
San Francisco
,
California
, 1971. 1 of 500 copies.
Design and printed by
Lawton
and Alfred Kennedy. Original blue
cloth binding with gold print on cover spine; 130 pages; maps and illustrations.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$45.00
