Echoes from the Rocky Mountains--Reminiscences and Thrilling Incidence of the Romantic and Golden age of the Great West, with a Graphic Account of Its Discovery, the Settlement and Grand Development by Clampitt, John W - 1890

Contains a Christmas greeting by Strom Thurmond.
A bookplate-type inscription was inserted into this book: Typed, "Nancy and the children and I feel this book is informative and entertaining. We hope you will enjoy it. With kindest regards and Greetings of the Season. (Signed) Strom Thurmond".

Nice condition complete 2-volume set of the "History of Concord New Hampshire" - From the Original Grant in Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-Five to the Opening of the Twentieth Century. The set comes with its original, oversized color map (35" tall x 31" wide) titled "Commissioners Map of Concord New Hampshire" dated 1902. Both volumes are illustrated with maps and engravings of notable homes and sites. 1903; The Rumford Press; Concord. "Prepared under the supervision of the City History Commission." Here is a sample of the chapter contents:* Aboriginal Occupation* King George's War and its Indian Hostilities* Colonization by Concord Settlers* Last French and Indian War* Period of the American Revolution* Revised State Constitution* Early Events of the New Century* War of 1812* The State House Erected* Toleration Act* Temperance Reform* Religious, Social, Intellectual, and Material Progress* Catholic-Irish Immigration* Public Library* The Prohibition Law* Period of the Civil War* Weather Record from 1856… Read More

Book is nice and clean DJ slight wear to corners. Corners of DJ not clipped.

Herff Jones Book. Fine-. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. The first title is an oversize blue imitation-leather hardcover with white lettering to spine and front; large gilt seal on front; no jacket; pictorial endpapers; 496 pages; many color photos. "This book documents the mighty warship's June to December deployment to the Western Pacific, the Arabian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean -- Lincoln's second major deployment." No publication date. The second title is a staplebound dark-blue softcover with gilt on front and gilt rope through spine; 48 pages; color photos; fine minus condition too. Might require extra for shipping..

Union Publishing Company, New York, 1894. Hardcover. First Edition. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Pre-publication promotional copy with pink frontispiece cover describing endorsements from Samual Gompers, President, American Federation of Labor and Eugene V. Debs, President, American Railway Union (included). The promotional copy contains 32 full page b/w photographs (mostly by A. R. Keller) or b/w sketch drawings that would appear in the published final book. 56 pp. Text is lightly yellowed typical of the pulp paper used in the printing. Leaves are clean and unmarked. There is evidence that a page 57 may have existed, but it has been torn from this copy and is missing. (When the complete book was published, it contained 491 pp.) Inside front pastedown contains a glued down leather example of the spine for the upcoming book. It is a leather strip embossed with gilt title, subtitle and author's name. Table of contents reflects 12 chapters, but only the first four chapters are… Read More

323 pp. Introduced and edited by Garrick A. Bailey

N.A. Kovach. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover first edition copy in very good condition, expected age toning and light foxing to textblock and age toning to cloth at top edge. No. 25/25 limited edition copies offered for sale. Signed by Lyle H. Wright (who wrote introduction), John B. Goodman (Illustrator) and Nicholas Kovac (Publisher). DJ in good plus condition with mild age toning and small chip at spine tail, now in protective mylar cover. . Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 1946.

Thick 4to, 3/4 brown leather, marbled boards. 1056 pp. Willis moved from the east coast to Sacramento county in 1871, where he engaged in farming near Elk Grove, and teaching, until 1892. He then became a member of the editorial staff of the Record-Union, and continued the association for thirteen years. In 1879 he was tendered an appointment on the county board of education, of which he remained a member for twenty-three years.

CONDITION: FAIR. A clean, tight copy internally. Covers well worn with substantial rubbing to edges, corners, and spine. Front board nearly detached. Owner's inked and penciled names on front pastedown and title page.

The 6th publication by Stephen King. Gutter code on pg. 823 reads A-29.

El Escritorio, 1992. Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Near Fine. Very minor shelf and handling wear to cover, bottom front corner slightly creased, spine faded. Else Fine / As New. Appears unopened / unread. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.