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1934. VG-, SIGNED CHECK by Zane Grey , light wear SLIGHT FADE, SIGNED CHECK by Zane Grey Drawn on Security First National Bank of Los Angeles written for $12.00 dated October 13, 1934, 10/13/34. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Unbound.
The Dusantes (Signed by Frank Stockton & Jean Hersholt) by Stockton, Frank - 1888
by Stockton, Frank
The Dusantes (Signed by Frank Stockton & Jean Hersholt)
by Stockton, Frank
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NEW YORK: The Century Company, 1888. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hard Paper Wraps. Near Fine/Slipcased. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Printing 1888. From the collection of Jean Hersholt--who was the Danish actor who played Heidi's grandfather in the original movie with Shirley Temple in the title role. A fine copy in original hard wrappers, uncut and protected over the years in a custom chemise and slipcase--which Hersholt had custom made. Besides acting, Hersholt was a noted collector and a noted translator of the works of Hans Christian Anderson into English (translated over 150 works). This copy is labeled with Hersholt's custom gold label and signed by him on the label at the top. In addition the custom chemise has a small sticker with the notation of "No. 576"--From the library of Jean Hersholt". "The Dusantes" is a follow up to the previous "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine". Light age toning only. The chemise is fine in chocolate brown with a silk gold pull ribbon. The slipcase is quarter morocco leatherette and chocolate brown with gilt lettering of title, author and year of publication on spine- along with 5 ribs--- Medium edgewear and age toning to the spine with light rubbing on the chocolate brown boards--still a beautiful collectible copy in great condition from a noted actor and collector. 150 pp. with gilt decoration to the front and rear hard wrappers and ads to the inside covers. There is a small ink stamp (egg shape) with the name of Robert Beall, bookseller in "Washington City" which later became known as Washington D.C.
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- Publisher The Century Company
- Place of Publication NEW YORK
- Date Published 1888
- Size 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords FICTION HEIDI
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SIGNED CHECK by Zane Grey Drawn on Security First National Bank of Los Angeles written for $12.00 dated October 13, 1934, 10/13/34
by SIGNED CHECK by Zane Grey
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LONG BEACH, California, United States
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Report of The Exploring Expedition To The Rocky Mountains In the Year 1842 and To Oregon and North California in the Year 1843-'44. House Doc. No. 166. (1845)(1st edition)
by J. C. Fremont (John Charles); Sheffield Oil Company
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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First House edition of this famous report. 1845. Complete in original binding except for the gigantic map which is available in full size color thick glossy paper professional reproduction ($25 extra if desired). Pagination: 583 pages, 22 plates, 4 maps, all blanks present. Includes fascinating pencil diagram of oil rig on back of map. Oil rig drawing titled "Sheffield Oil Company. Warren(?), Co., Pa." That pencil drawing is the only interior writing or ownership marking anywhere in the book. Condition is a mixed bag. Original half leather marbled boards show heavy wear and looks like they were professionally rehinged in the distant past. Binding is sound. Pages show moderate to heavy toning and foxing. Some plates have weird 'dot' foxing I have never seen elsewhere (see scan). Marbled endpapers. A nice well maintained copy suitable for reading and research with a cool drawing. Howes F372; Wagner-Camp 115:2; Graff 1436. House Doc. No. 166. Feel free to inquire. Please see scans of the book you will…
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Digging the Old West: How Dams and Ditches Sculpted an American Landscape
by Franklin, Karmen Lee
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780615531489 / 0615531482
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Franklin Design Bureau, 2011. Paperback. Used- Fine condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear. Light bumping on the top and bottom of the spine. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books."It is one of the few works that attempts fully to explain Colorado's water history. It is unusually well-written, with vivid descriptions of people, processes, events, and landscape features." Mark Fiege
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South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana. “The New Constellation” “Stars of the First Magnitude: Added to the Galaxy of States.
by St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company
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Houston, Texas, United States
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[Montana][Railroad] South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana. "The New Constellation" "Stars of the First Magnitude: Added to the Galaxy of States. N.p.: St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company. [1890?] Pictorial wraps. Map. 8.5 x 11 in. Illustrated. 4 pp. Full page map St. Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway and Connections is by Matthews, Northrup & Co., Art-Printing Works, Buffalo, New York. Has been folded. Agent rubber stamp on rear cover. Very good.OCLC shows no holdings. The St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway was the creation of James J. Hill. Hill and three other investors purchased the nearly bankrupt St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in 1878, renaming it the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company the following year. In 1890 all properties and operations were leased to the Great Northern Railway Company and the Great Northern purchased all of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company's investments, including stocks, bonds, and other miscellaneous… Read More
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Map of the Erie Railway. Extending from New York to Newburgh ... with its principal connections.: West & North-west, South & South-west via the Erie Railway
by Erie Railway
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Houston, Texas, United States
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[Railroad] Map of the Erie Railway. Extending from New York to Newburgh ... with its principal connections. [New York]: National Railway Publication Company. 1874. Map ; 24 x 61 cm, on sheet 37 x 63 cm, folded to 19 x 9 cm. Panel title: West & North-west, South & South-west via the Erie Railway ... Above the map: "The Best Equipped and Most Comfortable Route to the WEST!!" Fold splits, edge wear. Good.OCLC show one holding (SMU). Shows most of the United States except south Texas and Florida. Relief shown by hachures. Three illustrations below map. Timetables for May 1874 and "First class rates of fare from New York via Erie Railway" on verso. Mentioned destinations include Denison, Texas and San Francisco.
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Souvenir: Los Angeles Fire Department: Published in the Interest of the Firemen's Relief Fund
by {Los Angeles Fire Department} Crockett & Conklin (Compilers)
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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Small quarto (11 x 8 1/4 inches) Published in the Interest of the Firemen's Relief Fund, December 1900. 116 pages of half tone black and white photos of early Los Angeles, portraits, and advertisements for Los Angeles businesses of the period.Descriptive text includes a short history of the Los Angeles Fire Department: "In May, 1875, Engine Company No. 2 was organized."
Good condition: original red cloth binding, showing mild age toning, title on front cover, floral patterned end papers.
Many photos of early Los Angeles fire stations, with horse drawn equipment.
Portraits include: the mayor, the Fire Commissioners back to 1871, Chiefs, Captains, Lieutenants, Engine Drivers, Engineers, Hosemen, and Ladder men.
Advertisements include breweries, hardware supplies, saloons, blacksmiths, and stables among many others.
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Bar-20.
by Clarence E. Mulford.
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Miller Place, New York, United States
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New York: The Outing Publishing Company, 1907. Hardcover, red cloth boards, b/w stamped pictorial cover. Good/No Jacket. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth and F. E. Schoonover. Being a record of certain happenings that occurred in the otherwise peaceful lives of Hopalong Cassidy and his companions on the range. 382 pages, illustrated plates by Wyeth, cover & frontispiece adapted from the Schoonover painting for the 1905 story The Fight at Buckskin. This book is fictional, rough-talking cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy's first appearance; the character is known for his distinctive walk due to a gunshot wound. Spine gilt darkened, wear to ends and corners, previous owner's name inked on front endpaper, one-inch stain on the left side of front cover.
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Many More Mountains, Volume 3: Rails into Silverton: An Illustrated History of Silverton and the High San Juans from the Opening of the 1880s through the Outlaw Period and the Construction of the Railroad to the Beginning of the Red Mountain Excitement
by Nossaman, Allen
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780913582640 / 0913582646
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Sundance Books, 1998. Hardcover. Used - near fine condition in a very good clear vinyl dust jacket. Signed by author on first title page. Book has no damage and very little shelf wear. Light bumping at corners and at ends of spine. Vinyl dust jacket has some creases along edges. No writing or highlighting. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.
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New Mexico: New State Map. Based on Official Government Surveys and Other Reliable Data.
by C. S. Hammond & Co.
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Houston, Texas, United States
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[New Mexico] C. S. Hammond & Co. New Mexico. New York: C.S. Hammond & Co. 1904 Color map 21 x 28 cm on sheet 25.5 x 33.5 cm. In tan paper folder 7 x 14 cm. Cover title: New State Map. Based on Official Government Surveys and Other Reliable Data. Very good with no splits.OCLC shows no holdings of this vest pocket map. There are two holdings for the map (Cal. Hist. Soc. & UC-Davis). Other title: Hammond's 8 x 11 Map of New Mexico. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
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Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1892-93: Part 2
by J. W. Powell
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Washington Government Printing Office, 1896. Part 2 ONLY (of original two volume set). Good+. Text block is age-toned but clean and complete with all plates. Olive cloth publisher's binding shows shelf and handling wear with abrasion to the embossing as well as edge, corner, and spine wear. All corners bumped and worn. Covers are dented and scratched. Overall, a clean, solid copy with wear to the cover. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
by John B. Wyeth
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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THE HELMET OF MAMBRINO
by KING,Clarence
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1938. First Thus. Vellum-backed marbled boards. Near Fine. (xx), 1, 21, 1 pages. First Edition Thus. Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. Vellum-backed marbled boards. Gilt spine-titling. 5 1/4" x 8". Slipcase. Limited to 350 copies printed by The University of California Press. Per the Introduction, "'The Helmet of Mambrino' well supports the claim of (Clarence) King's friends that his casual conversation often equalled the best literature of his day, for this letter to a friend was undoubtedly produced spontaneously without thought of publication." A beautifully produced small book. Neat pictorial bookplate at front pastedown; small bookseller's stamp removal scar to rear pastedown, but a Near Fine copy in a Very Good Plus (slight abrasions at opening ends) slipcase. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.
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THE GATHERING OF ZION. THE STORY OF THE MORMON TRAIL
by STEGNER, Wallace
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Nevada City, California, United States
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New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. (15) 331 (1) pp. Illustrated dust jacket, with $6.95 price. Illustrated, including maps of The Moromon Trail. Index. Purple cloth.6 1/4" x 9 1/4". One of The American Trail Series, edited by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Per the jacket blurb: "Close to the heart of Mormondom is the almost stylized memory of the Trail. For every early Saint, crossing the plains to Zion was not merely a journey, but a rite, the final devoted and enduring act that brought one into the Kingdom." A Fine copy in a Very Good Plus or better dust jacket (pencil numbering to rear cover, spine toning; edgewear, especially to spine-ends). ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.
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In the Big Horn Mountains: Deer Haven Lodge Tensleep, Wyoming on Highway No. 16
by Deer Haven Lodge
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Sheridan: Clouds Peak Printery, 1950. Single sheet brochure, 17 x 36cm, folded to 17 x 9cm, four panels on each side. Halftone photographs, cover illustration, map. Some light toning and wear, else fine. Small advertisement for the Deer Haven Lodge, member of the Dude Ranchers Association. Nice map of the Bighorn National Forest, showing the location of the Lodge. Pictures include Paint Rock Creek and Lake Solitude. "Some of the finest fishing available is to be had in the lakes and streams....accessible only by 'packing in.' Ca. 1948-1950. Worldcat locates a single copy, at Yale.
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Yellowstone Park Lodges and Camps
by Yellowstone Park Lodge and Camps Company
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GIG HARBOR, Washington, United States
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Livingston, Montana; Yellowstone Park, Wyoming: Yellowstone Park Lodges and Camps Company, 1925. Brochure, 22.5 x 10cm folded, 11pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, map, printed in red and black throughout. Illustrated, stapled wraps show light wear and rubbing with a few bent corners, else fine. Beautiful brochure advertising stays at the park, with photos of lodges, sights, wildlife, maps, and pricing. "Any railroad agent can tell you about Yellowstone National Park, or address Yellowstone Park Lodge and Camps Co." Vernon Goodwin is listed as president, taking over from Howard Hays in 1924.
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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; Edited by Charles L. Camp
by White, Philo
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ardsley, New York, United States
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Denver: Old West Publishing, 1965. Hardcover. Orig. decorated green clean. Fine in nicked and chipped plain paper wrapper. 84 pages. 33 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Illustrated in color and black and white. Handsomely printed, bright, very clean copy.
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Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom (Salesman's Dummy)
by P.J. O'Brien
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O'Brien, P.J. Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom. With an appreciation by Lowell Thomas. Copyright 1935, P.J. O'Brien. Published by George A. Parker Company, Philadelphia. Illustrated. RARE SALESMAN'S DUMMY WITH SUBSCRIPTION BLANKS. Includes excerpts from 296 page complete book. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY OF WILL ROGERS. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ AS ISSUED.
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Los Fundadores
by Leon Rowland
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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"Herein are listed the first families of California and also other persons with family names that were in California 1769-1785 except those who died at San Diego in 1769."
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Abstract of the Official Record of Proceeding of the Reno Court of Inquiry
by Reno, Marcus A., Graham, W. A
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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Harrisburg, PA; (1954): Stackpole Co. First Edition. Octavo. Convened at Chicago, Illinios, 13 January 1879. xxx, 303 p. illus., port., maps (part fold.) Vital and revealing testimony of participants in the Battle of the ittle Big Horn. Battlefield map endpapers. Bound in gray cloth lettered in blue, spine lettering blue, in clipped dust jacket with some cipping to head and edge wear.
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It All Happened in Tombstone
by Clum, John P
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Woodruff, Wisconsin, United States
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Northland Press, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine. 45 pp. Dark red HC is Fine except for fading along bottom edge. Red DJ has two small closed tears along the top edge with worn creases, rest of DJ shows minimal wear.
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