Ferrocarril Internacional. by Eduardo Lee Plumb - 1872: Rare Railroad Promotional

Halls, Mo.: G. A. Warnica. Very Good+. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Continued Title : (Whose Acts of fearlessness and Chivalry Kept the Frontier Trails Afire with Excitement, and whose Robberies and other Depredations in the Platte Purchase and Elsewhere, have been a Most Frequent Discussion to this day, all of which Transpired During and Just After The Civil War. ) Bound in clean red cloth, gilt title on front cover with a double ruled border. Texts Interior is tight, clean & intact. B/W photograph illustrations. Decorated endpaper. The life of Polk Wells is exceptionally full of the frontier life of the West. Written by himself while an inmate in the Fort Madison Penitentiary, Iowa. Unusual inscription to A H Greenly (the noted Michigan Historian) on front endpaper dated Oct. 28, 1942 " Presented to A. H. Greenly - as a monument to the folly of .........Wright Howes". Wright Howes (of antiquarian americana fame) had derided this book as the "feeble… Read More

Alaska: Pacific Coast Steamship Company , 1909. RARE advertising card for the Pacific Coast Steamhip Co. featuring a black and white photograph of three Native women, one with a child in carrier on her back, prepearing a meal over a campfire across water from a glacier. Card size 5 3/4" x 8", image size 4 1/4" x 7 1/2", with text underneath reading "AN ALASKA CHRISTMAS DINNER: Here's to good fortune for Nineteen Naught Nine ! May you always have food when the time comes to dine ! May you always find gold in your prospecting pan ! May Good health attend you ! Yours, (?)". Very Good, bottom left corner creased, small chip top edge. Native American. Gold prospecting. . Cardstock. Very Good. 5 3/4" H x 8" W.

Newton, Kansas: H. S. Dickey's Post Office, News, Store, 1910. Two real photo postcards mailed to members of the Popkins family of Halstead, Kans., dated Oct. 3 and Nov. 15, 1910. The Ringling Circus Parade card features at least 1 dozen elephants., is Very Good, bottom corner crease. The other card, View of Newton Kans., Looking South on Main St., Pub. by H.S. Dickey's Post Office News Store, also Very Good, a few small rubs at bottom edge. . Postcard. Very Good. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2".

Fort Madison, Iowa : Roberts & Roberts, Publishers , 1897. SCARCE. Supplement to the Fort Madison Democrat. 286 pages. Very Good Minus, wear and soiling to wrappers, chips to top corners first several pages, none affecting text. WorldCat notes 8 institutional holdings published in 4 other Iowa locations, none published in Fort Madison. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1989. Signed by Thomas McGuane on the title page. First edition / First printing. Tan cloth spine, green paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: G.P. Putnam's 1909, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 409pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Top edge gilt, frontispiece, illustrations, folding maps, index. Locale: British Columbia; Columbia River; Oregon; Washington. Series: American Waterways. (Western America, Rivers).

Westernlore Press, LA, 1967. HBDJ, 1967, 1st edition, minor rub DJ & small mended tear, VG/VG, Light X-Library Stamp top Edge outer pgs, but no other Markings, blank endpapers light residue. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Signed by the author. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, tan paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine, price-clipped dust jacket with one light crease to the front flap. A beautiful copy of a scarce book. The author's first book. The seventh volume in the Harper and Row Native American Publishing Program.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1917. First edition. Includes 3 poems by Wilkinson who provides a 9-page foreword describing her selection process. Also includes poems by Bret Harte, Helen Hunt Jackson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Sterling, Bayard Taylor, Edwin Markham, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joaquin Miller, Robinson Jeffers, Harriet Monroe, et al. (Refreshingly, it would appear that around 40% of the poems are by women.) 12mo green cloth boards stamped in gilt and yellow; 153 pages including index. Bright and near fine with just a touch of minor wear; in good, somewhat stained and edge-worn dust jacket with large chip from base of spine extending slightly to front and back panels but nonetheless bright and attractive. Scarce to rare in dust jacket.

San Francisco: Sunset Publishing House, 1920. First Edition. Paperback original. Very Good. [6.5x3.75in]; 98 pp., three maps - 'Aeroplane' view of Valley features, Yosemite Village and Valley roads, and fold out at rear of Yosemite Valley roads and trails to adjacent regions and contours; Brown pebbled paper wrappers of two staple/glue binding, with black ink lettering and illustration of Half Dome on front; Minor field and shelf wear to covers and maps, small tear at foot of back strip and along front joint (both repaired to limit further damage), minor soiling to covers, original glue stains along front hinge, some age toning to text, folding map in near fine condition with minor misfold edge crease. Ansel Franklin Hall (1894-1962) was a naturalist and the first Chief Naturalist and Forester of the United States National Park Service. From 1920 to 1923, Hall was the first Park Naturalist of Yosemite National Park. He established interpretive programs, founded the Yosemite Museum Association,… Read More