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Peterson, Guy L.
FORT
COLLINS: the Post … the Town.
Covering painting, M.C. Luther. Illustrations:
Derek Fitz James. The Old Army
Press: Fort Collins,
Colorado, 1972, 1st hardback edition. Citizen
Printing and Publishing. Signed by
author. Original blue cloth binding; gold print on cover and spine; 80 pages;
foldout map; illustrations. Fine in
near fine dust jacket. Price:
$50.00
Peterson, Nancy M. WESTERN
RIVER COLLECTION. Illustrated
by Asa Battles. #030 of 500.
Three Volumes. 1) PEOPLE
OF THE TROUBLED WATER: A
Missouri River
Journal. Renaissance House,
Publishers: A Division of Jende-Hagan, Inc.:
Frederick
,
Colorado
, 1st printing October 1988, signed by author and illustrator.
Original black cloth binding with gold print on front cover and spine;
153 pages. Very fine in fine dust
jacket. 2) PEOPLE OF THE
MOONSHELL: A
Western
River
Journal. Original black hardbound
binding with copper print on front cover and spine; 163 pages, plus index.
Second printing, January 1985. Very
fine in very fine dust jacket. Signed
by author and illustrator. 3) PEOPLE
OF THE OLD MISSOURY: Years of Conflict.
Original black cloth binding with silver print on front cover and spine;
192 pages. First printing September
1989. Signed by author and
illustrator. Very fine in very fine
dust jacket. Slipcase in very fine
condition, signed by author and illustrator.
Price: $150.00
Pettem, Silvia. RED
ROCKS TO RICHES: Gold Mining in
Boulder
County
(Colorado),Then and Now. Stonehenge
Books: Denver,
Colorado, 1980, 1st printing. Inscribed
by author. WESType Publishing
Services, Inc.,
Boulder, Colorado. Original illustrated tan wrappers;
123 pages; illustrated. Fine
condition. Price:
$25.00
Phillips County
Colorado
Historical Society. THOSE WERE THE DAYS. Printed
and bound by Holyoke Enterprise Printing Co.: Holyoke,
Colorado, 1973, 1st printing. Original
illustrated tan wrappers; 174 pages; illustrated.
History of Phillips County,
Colorado. Price:
$50.00
Phipps, Lawrence C., Jr.
FORTY YEARS OF THE ARAPAHOE
HUNT. Including a Quarter
Century of the Arapahoe Hunt by W.W. Grant.
Privately printed. Unnumbered
limited edition. Original red cloth
binding; 112 pages; gold print on cover and spine.
Fine condition, no dust jacket. Price:
$25.00
Piercy, Frederick. ROUTE
FROM LIVERPOOL TO
GREAT
SALT
LAKE
VALLEY, ILLUSTRATED, with Steel Engravings and Wood Cuts from Sketches … A
Geographical and Historical Description of
Utah
, and a Map of the Overland Routes to that Territory from the
Missouri River. Edited by James
Linforth. Liverpool: Published by Franklin D. Richards. London: Latter-Day Saints’ Book Depot, 1855. Facsimile
of this volume reproduced by Westernlore Press: Los Angeles, 1959. Black hardback binding; 120
pages, with foldout map and illustrations. Near
fine condition. Price: $150.00
Pohanka, Brian C., editor.
NELSON A. MILES: A Documentary
Biography of His Military Career, 1861 – 1903.
In collaboration with John M. Carroll.
Foreword by Robert M. Utley. The
Arthur H. Clark Company: Glendale, California, 1985, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding with gold print on spine; 327 pages; illustrated.
Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Price:
$75.00
Powell, J.W. SECOND
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION, 1880 – ‘81.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883. Original
olive cloth binding with gold embossing on cover and spine; 477 pages; complete
with all plates and illustrations. Zuni
Fetiches. Myths of the Iroquois.
Animal Carvings from the Mounds of the
Mississippi
Valley. Navajo Silversmiths.
Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans.
Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections obtained from the Indians of New
Mexico and
Arizona
in 1879. Illustrated Catalogue of
the Collections obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880.
Condition: very good plus to near fine.
Price: $250.00
Powell, J.W. THIRD
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION, 1881 – ‘82.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884. Original
olive cloth binding with gold embossing on cover and spine; 606 pages; complete
with all plates and illustrations. Notes
on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts. On
Masks, Labrets, and Certain Aboriginal Customs. Omaha
Sociology. Navajo Weavers.
Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections obtained made
during the field season of 1881, by W.H. Holmes.
Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections obtained from the Pueblos of New
Mexico and
Arizona
in 1881. Condition: good plus to
very good; some dampstaining on covers, but none affecting in interior; bottom
of binding spine frayed. Price: $200.00
Propst, Nell Brown. FORGOTTEN
PEOPLE: A History of the South Platte Trail.
Foreword by James Terrell King. Pruett
Publishing Company: Boulder, Colorado, 1979, 1st edition. Original
brown hardback binding with gold print on spine; 244 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$85.00
Prosser, Glenn. THE
SAGA OF
BLACK
CANYON
: The Story of the MacGregors in
Estes
Park
(Colorado). Privately published, 1971, 1st
printing. Original illustrated
wrappers; illustrated; unpaginated (approximately 60 pages).
Near fine condition. Price:
$15.00
Raynor, David E., compiler, and Susman, Graham.
HISTORY OF COLUMBINE LODGE NO.
147, A.F.&A.M., 1916 – 1960. Privately
printed, 1960, 1st edition. Original
blue hardback binding; gold print on cover and spine; 131 pages; illustrated.
Near fine condition, no dust jacket.
Price: $75.00
Repplier, F.O. AS
A TOWN GROWS: The Schools of Boulder, Colorado
in the Pageant of the Years 1860 – 1959.
Published June 1959, by School District No.,
Boulder County, Colorado. Original beige cloth binding; red
print on front cover and spine; 236 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$45.00
Rickel, Wesley Kellogg, editor.
ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN TREES: A
Compilation of Biographies by The Memorial Tree Planting Committee of
the
Fort
Morgan
(
Colorado
) Heritage Foundation, Inc. Privately
published, 1976, 1st edition. Original
illustrated stiff white covers; 274 pages; illustrated.
Fine condition, no dust jacket. Price:
$50.00
Risley, James H. HOW
IT GREW: A History of the Pueblo Public Schools.
The
University
of
Denver Press
:
Denver,
Colorado, 1953, 1st edition. Original
red cloth binding; gold print on spine; 335 pages; illustrated.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$95.00
Rittenhouse, Jack D. THE
SANTA FE TRAIL: A Historical Bibliography. The
University
of
New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, 1971, 1st edition. Original
green cloth binding with gold print on spine; 271 pages.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$125.00
Roberts, Helen H. BASKETRY
OF THE SAN CARLOS
APACHE INDIANS. Reprint of
the 1929 edition by The Rio Grande Press, Inc.:
Glorietta,
New Mexico, 1974 2nd printing. Original
aquamarine hardback covers; copper and red print on front cover and spine; 218
pages; maps on endpapers; illustrated. Fine
condition. Price:
$40.00
Robertson,
Clyde
. THE
YELLOW WITCH: Ballads About Gold. Loker
Raley:
New York, 1940, 1st edition.
Colorado
poetry, including verses about Tin Cup and the Matchless Mine.
Original blue cloth binding with yellow label tipped onto front cover and
spine; 80 pages. Near fine.
Price: $10.00
Rockwell,
Wilson. SUNSET
SLOPE: True Epics of
Western Colorado. Jacket and cover design by
Velda L. Anglin. Big Mountain Press:
Denver,
Colorado, 1956, 1st edition; 290 pages; illustrated.
Original illustrated blue cloth binding.
Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
Price: $75.00
Rogers, James Grafton.
THE GOLDENROD LODE: A Frontier
Drama in Verse. Written for
The Cactus Club of Denver, by James Grafton Rogers and performed by The Club in
its outdoor theatre in the Rocky Mountains, September 4, 1920. Printed for The
Cactus Club, Denver: 1920. 1st printing. Original
tan hardcover binding with printed label tipped on front cover; 50 pages.
Near fine condition. Price:
$50.00
Ross, Alexander. THE
FUR HUNTERS OF THE FAR WEST. Edited
by Kenneth A. Spaulding.
University
of
Oklahoma:
Norman, 1956, 1st edition. Original
cloth binding; 304 pages; illustrated. Fine
in near fine dust jacket. Price: $65.00
Ross, Marvin C., editor.
GEORGE CATLIN: Episodes from Life
Among the Indians and Last Rambles.
University
of
Oklahoma Press: Norman, 1959, 1st edition. Original
green cloth binding; black and gold print on spine; 357 pages; illustrated.
Fine in very good plus dust jacket. Price:
$95.00
Russell, Carl P. TRAPPER TRAILS TO THE SISK-KE-DEE.
Reprint from Annals of Wyoming, Volume 17, No. 2, July 1945. 1st separate
printing. Original printed wrappers. Pages 89 - 105. Printed
by The Wyoming Labor Journal, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Two one-page maps.
Inscribed by author. Very good plus condition. Price:
$25.00
Russell, Virgil Y. INDIAN
ARTIFACTS. With Pen Sketches
by Stella L. Russell. Johnson
Publishing Company: Boulder,
Colorado, 2nd printing, 1953. Original
brown hardback binding; gold print on front cover and spine; 140 pages;
illustrated. Fine in near fine dust
jacket. Price: $45.00
Sabin, Edwin L. WILD
MEN OF THE WILD WEST. Thomas
Y. Crowell Company:
New York, 1929. Vail-Ballou Press, New York. Original illustrated hardcover
binding; 363 pages; illustrations by Mabel Pugh.
Very good plus to near fine condition; no dust jacket.
Price: $55.00
Sabin, Marion Savage.
PALMER
LAKE: A Historical Narrative.
Edited by Lloyd McFarling. Sage
Books: Denver,
Colorado, 1957, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding; blue print on cover and spine; 116 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$35.00
Sarchet, Fancher. MURDER
AND MIRTH: The Story of a Colorado
Trial Lawyer. Sage Books: Denver,
Colorado, 1956, 1st edition. Original
beige cloth binding with brown print on cover and spine; 261 pages.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$65.00
Scamehorn, Howard L., editor and introduction.
THE BUCKEYE ROVERS IN THE GOLD
RUSH: An Edition of Two Diaries.
Wyoming
and California.
Ohio
University
Press: Athens, Ohio, 1965, 1st edition. Original
illustrated cloth binding; 195 pages; maps.
Fine in fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $35.00
Scamehorn, H. Lee. THE
COLORADO
FUEL AND IRON COMPANY, 1872 – 1903.
Pruett Publishing Company: Boulder,
Colorado, 1976, 1st edition. Original
blue hardback with gold print on spine; 231 pages; illustrated.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$75.00
Schaefer, Lyle L. FAITH
TO MOVE MOUNTAINS: A History of the Colorado District of the Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod from the earliest mission work, 1872 – 1968.
Published by The Colorado District, Lutheran
Church
– Missouri Synod: Denver,
Colorado, 1969, 1st edition. Johnson
Publishing Company: Boulder,
Colorado. Original green cloth binding; gold
print on front cover and spine; 233 pages; illustrated.
Inscribed by author. Fine in
near fine dust jacket. Price:
$85.00
Schaeffer, L.M. SKETCHES
OF TRAVELS IN SOUTH AMERICA,
MEXICO
AND CALIFORNIA.
New York
: James Egbert, Printer, 321 Pearl Street; 1860, first edition. Original
maroon cloth; gold print on spine; 247 pages.
Very good plus condition. Price: $100.00
Schmitt, Martin F. and
Brown, Dee. FIGHTING
INDIANS OF THE WEST. Charles
Scribner’s Sons:
New York
; Charles Scribner’s Sons, Ltd.: London; 1948, 1st edition. Original
illustrated hardback binding; 362 pages; maps on endpapers; illustrated.
Near fine condition. Price:
$45.00
Schoberlin, Melvin. ROADS
and Other Lines. The
Mogollon Press: Denver,
Colorado,
1939, 1st printing. #85
of 222 copies. Printed at the State
College of Education Press, Greeley,
Colorado. Signed by author.
Original illustrated green wrappers; 36 pages.
Fine condition: $100.00
Schoolland, John B.
BOULDER
THEN AND NOW: Picturesque Boulder
and Gems of Boulder
County. Pruett Press: Boulder,
Colorado, 1967, 1st edition. Original
green hardback binding; silver print on front cover and spine; 270 pages;
illustrated. Fine in near fine dust
jacket. Price: $145.00
Schoolland, John B. A
PIONEER CHURCH, being a Reverently Realistic Account of the First Presbyterian
Church of Boulder, Colorado in its Total Pioneer Origin, 1872 – 1972.
Printed by the Johnson Publishing Company, Boulder,
Colorado, 1972, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding; gold print on cover and spine; 183 pages; illustrated.
Fine in near fine condition. Price:
$30.00
Schultz, Molly Marr. TENDERFOOT
SCHOOLMARM: An Autobography. Edited
and with an Introduction and Afterword by Eileen Schultz Tarcay.
Privately published, 1977, 1st printing.
Historical background: mountains of western
Colorado
and southeastern mountains of Utah. Signed by editor.
Original light blue illustrated wrappers; 80 pages; illustrated.
Near fine. Price:
$12.50
Settle, Mary Lund and Raymond W.
SADDLES AND SPURS: the Pony
Express Saga. The Stackpole
Company: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; 1955, 1st edition; The Telegraph Press.
Original light tan covers; dust jacket; very good plus in very good plus
dust jacket. Previous owner’s
inscription on half-title page. Several
small nicks in dust jacket. Complete
with illustrations. PRICE: $45.00
Shaffer, Ray. A
GUIDE TO PLACES ON THE COLORADO
PRAIRIE, 1540 – 1975. Pruett
Publishing Company: Boulder,
Colorado, 1978, 1st edition. Original
brown cloth binding; gold print on spine; 386 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$75.00
Shaputis, June and Kelly, Suzanne, compilers and editors.
A HISTORY OF
CHAFFEE
COUNTY
(Colorado). Walsworth Publishing
Company: Marceline,
Missouri, 1982, 1st edition. Buena
Vista Heritage, Buena Vista, Colorado. Original black printed tan cloth
binding; 285 pages; illustrated; maps on endpapers.
Fine condition. Price:
$125.00
Sherman, Lt. William Tecumseh.
THE CALIFORNIA
GOLD FIELDS IN 1848. 1 of
450 copies. Frederick W. Beinecke:
Christmas, 1964. Original red
wrappers; unpaginated. Copies of
letters. Near fine condition.
Price: $30.00
Shields, Milford
E. COLORADO
AND OTHER POEMS.
Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., Publishers, 1943, 1st edition.
Original gray binding with silver print on spine; 64 pages.
Inscribed by Shields, Poet Laureate of Colorado. Price:
$250.00
Shinn, Charles Howard.
MINING CAMPS: A Study in
American Frontier Government. Introduction
by Joseph Henry Jackson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, 1st edition thus (original 1885).
Original brown cloth binding; gold print on front cover and spine; 291
pages, plus index. Long inscription
by neighbor referring to author and his personality (association copy).
Very good plus in very good dust jacket.
Price: $75.00
Shobert, Burton
C. THERE’S
A GOLD MINE IN MY GARDEN. Privately
printed: Central City, Colorado, circa 1949. Lost Gold Mine, near
Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado. Original black printed,
illustrated gold wrappers; 8 pages; illustrated.
Inscribed by the author. Very
good plus condition. Price:
$35.00
Simmons,
Virginia
McConnell. THE
SAN
LUIS
VALLEY: Land of the Six-Armed Cross. Pruett
Publishing Company: Boulder,
Colorado, 1979, 1st edition. Original
brown hardback; 193 pages; illustrated. Fine
in fine dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Siringo, Charles A. RIATA
AND SPURS: the Story of a Lifetime Spent in the Saddle as Cowboy and Detective.
With an Introduction by Gifford and Pinchot, and with illustrations.
Boston
and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1927, 1st
edition. Original brown cloth
covers; 276 pages; complete with all illustrations.
Condition: light damp-wrinkling throughout book; otherwise very good
condition; no dust jacket. PRICE:
$150.00
Smith, Duane A.
COLORADO
MINING: A Photographic History.
University
of
New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, 1977, first edition. Original
white cloth binding with black print on spine; 176 pages; illustrated.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$30.00
Smith, Duane. ROCKY
MOUNTAIN
BOOM
TOWN: A History of
Durango
(Colorado).
University
of
New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, 1980, 1st edition. Original
burgundy cloth binding; gold print on spine; 215 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$50.00
Smith, Duane A. and Wieler, Hank.
SECURE THE SHADOW: Lachlan
McLean,
Colorado
Mining Photographer.
Colorado
School
of Mines Press: Golden,
Colorado; 1980, 1st edition. Original
blue cloth binding; silver print on spine; 82 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$125.00
Smith, Duane A. SILVER
SAGA: The Story of Caribou, Colorado. Foreword by Robert G.
Athearn. Pruett Publishing Company: Boulder,
Colorado, 1974, 1st edition, 1st printing.
Original silver hardback binding; red print on front cover and spine; 269
pages; illustrated. Fine in very
good plus (scuffed) dust jacket. Price:
$150.00
Smith, Duane A. SONG
OF THE HAMMER AND DRILL: the Colorado
San Juans, 1860 – 1914.
Colorado
School
of Mines Press: Golden, Colorado, 1982, 1st edition. Original
red cloth binding with gold print on cover and spine; 181 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price: $85.00
Spaulding, Kenneth A., editor.
ON THE
OREGON TRAIL: Robert Stuart’s Journey of Discovery, 1812 – 1813.
University
of
Oklahoma Press:
Norman, 1953, 1st edition. Original
gray cloth binding; 192 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price: $60.00
Spence, Clark C. MINING
ENGINEERS & THE AMERICAN WEST: The Lace-Boot Brigade, 1849 – 1933.
New Haven
and London: Yale University Press, 1970, 1st edition.
Original tan cloth binding; 407 pages; illustrated.
Fine in fine dust jacket. Price:
$85.00
Spencer, Elma Dill Russell.
GREEN RUSSELL AND GOLD.
Sketches and Maps by Ben Carlton Mead.
University
of Texas Press, Austin and London, 1966, 1st edition. History
of the Russells of Georgia and the
Colorado
gold rush (Central City). Original
orange cloth binding; 239 pages; illustrated.
Fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $20.00
Spencer, Lilian White.
ARROWHEADS.
New York: the Parade Publishing Company, 1920, 1st edition.
Poetry of Colorado
and the Southwest. 1 of 500 copies.
Inscribed by the author. Original
brown cloth binding; green print on cover; 64pages.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price: $75.00
Spencer, Lilian White.
PAGEANT OF COLORADO: An Epic Drama. Music by
Charles Wakefiled Cadman. Percy
Jewett Burrell, Master of the Pageant. Presented
by the People of
Denver
and Colorado
at the City Auditorium, May 2-7, 1927. Auspices
of the Denver Music Week Association, Inc. Authorized
and Supported by the City and County
of Denver. Printed and published by Welch-Haffner
Printing Company. Original
illustrated wrappers; 71 pages. Very
good plus condition. A play about Colorado. Price:
$45.00
Sprague, Marshall. ONE
HUNDRED PLUS: A Centennial Story of Colorado Springs. With illustrations and a
map. Colorado Springs Centennial,
Inc.:
Colorado Springs,
Colorado, 1971, 1st edition. Printed
by Williams & Field, Inc. Inscribed
to Fred and Jo Mazzulla by Marshall Sprague. Brown hardcover edition. Fine condition. Price: $45.00
Spring, Agnes Wright. COLORADO
CHARLEY: Wil Bill’s Pard. Pruett
Press, Inc.:
Boulder,
Colorado, 1968, 1st edition. Signed
by author. Original brown
cloth covers with black print on spine; 144 pages; illustrated; in original dust
jacket. Fine in near fine dust
jacket. PRICE: $50.00
Spring, Agnes Wright, introduction.
TALES OF THE 04 RANCH:
Recollections of Harold J. Cook, 1887 – 1909.
University
of
Nebraska Press:
Lincoln; 2nd printing, August, 1969. Original
orange cloth binding; black print on spine; 221 pages; illustrated.
Fine in near fine dust jacket. Price:
$12.50
Spring, Agnes Wright, foreword.
THEY CAME TO STAY: Longmont,
Colorado, 1858 – 1920, Centennial Edition.
Original blue cloth binding with gold print on cover and spine; 276
pages, plus addenda sheets; illustrated. Fine
condition. Price:
$50.00
Springer, Charles H. SOLDIERING
IN SIOUX COUNTRY: 1865. Edited
by Benjamin Franklin Cooling III. Illustrated
by John W. Hampton. Frontier
Heritage Press: San Diego,
California, 1971, 1st edition. Original
brown cloth binding; gold print on front cover and spine; 82 pages; illustrated.
Fine in near fine dust jacket, with small section cut out of lower front
panel. Price:
$45.00
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