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New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1843. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good Hardcover;/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Professorially rebound in polished half-leather to maroon cloth with new endpages. 12mo; 7.75 inches tall; 1 p. l., (i) vi-xxxv, (1) 37-311 p. 3 other plates included in pagination. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning with some foxing. A handsome book. First Edition, First Printing.. A treatise on the Asiatic origin of the North American Indian, with comparisons of physiognomy, language, religion, dress, rites.. [From the title page] With a Faithful Description of their Manners and Customs, both Civil and Military, Their Religions, Languages, Dress, and Ornaments. To which is prefixed a brief view of the creation of the world, the situation of the garden of Eden, the Antediluvians, the foundation of Nations by the posterity of Noah, the progenitors of the N. Americans and the discovery of the New World by Columbus. Concluding with a…
Read More [WESTERN AMERICANA ] Indians of the Painted Desert Region; Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais. by James, George Wharton - 1903
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[WESTERN AMERICANA ] Indians of the Painted Desert Region; Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais.
by James, George Wharton
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James traveled extensively throughout the Southwest and presents this book in the nature of a personal narrative, and as the author has had long and association with the tribes of which he treats, he details the lives and customs of the various Indian tribes he visited. ----------------
Hardcover in publisher's decorative cloth., plates throughout. 1903 Rather bright, cover exceptional, unrubbed, one small spot within the deep brown rule. 8vo; 22 cm, 8.25 inches tall; xxi, 268 p. : ill. ;[3] advertisements; with extensive Bibliography; with numerous illustrations from sixty-five beautiful half-tone plates from photographs; Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Christmas gift note, Ex-Libris bookplate of Virginia F. Morley. ---------------
[Bookplate association] Virginia F. Morley traveled throughout America during the late 1800's, recording the flora and fauna through her discerning eyes, appreciative heart and supreme talent. Her artwork is exceptional and only recently come to prominence. -----
Ref: Hathi; Alliot 116; Howes 5321; American Anthropologist 1903 p706 ------- Subjects: Indians of North America. Southwest Utah Colorado, central New Mexico, eastern California, and the heart of northern Mexico .
James traveled extensively throughout the Southwest and presents this book in the nature of a personal narrative, and as the author has had long and association with the tribes of which he treats, he details the lives and customs of the various Indian tribes he visited. ----------------
Hardcover in publisher's decorative cloth., plates throughout. 1903 Rather bright, cover exceptional, unrubbed, one small spot within the deep brown rule. 8vo; 22 cm, 8.25 inches tall; xxi, 268 p. : ill. ;[3] advertisements; with extensive Bibliography; with numerous illustrations from sixty-five beautiful half-tone plates from photographs; Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Christmas gift note, Ex-Libris bookplate of Virginia F. Morley. ---------------
[Bookplate association] Virginia F. Morley traveled throughout America during the late 1800's, recording the flora and fauna through her discerning eyes, appreciative heart and supreme talent. Her artwork is exceptional and only recently come to prominence. -----
Ref: Hathi; Alliot 116; Howes 5321; American Anthropologist 1903 p706 ------- Subjects: Indians of North America. Southwest Utah Colorado, central New Mexico, eastern California, and the heart of northern Mexico .
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The Origin of the North American Indians
by McIntosh, John
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Record of Engagements with Hostile Indians Within the Military Division of the Missouri, from 1868 to 1882
by Sheridan, Lieutenant General P. H. (1831-1888
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Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1882. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Half pebbled leather with matching in color cloth; spine titles in gilt with black lined divisions. Marbled endpages with matching textblock. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Text is clean with appropriate age-toning. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 111 pages of text followed by blank pages presumed to give the spine room for the titles. A very handsome rebinding. Graff records an edition prior to this in Chicago in 1882.. Compiled from official reports describing over 400 engagements in chronological order, including a lengthy description of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. After the US Civil War Sheridan reported to the Gulf of Mexico, where his presence along the Texas border hastened the fall of Maximilian, the French puppet emperor in Mexico, in 1867. He was later named military commander of Louisiana and Texas (1867), but his harsh administration of…
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Coachella Valley Desert Trails and The Romance and Sex Life of the Date.
by Shields, E. Floyd
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Indio, CA: Shields Date Gardens, 1952. 40-page, wire-stitched pamphlet. Original buff wrappers printed in brown and orange with an image of the rising sun over a desert landscape to the upper wrapper and a cartoon of a knight pointing to the Shields farm on the lower wrapper. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps. Partially erased price and a little light dampstain to the cover. Occasional tiny spots to contents, which are faintly toned. A clean and fresh copy in excellent condition. First edition of this charming tourist booklet promoting the Coachella Valley and Shields Date Gardens, the famous "home of the date shake" on Highway 111 in Indio, California. Date agriculture was introduced to the Coachella Valley when the US Department of Agriculture set up an experimental station in the region in 1904. "In the following decades, crop production grew exponentially, from approximately 100,000 pounds in 1919 to 1 million pounds in 1926, and then by 1955 to 48 million pounds of dates"…
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All About Pasadena and Its Vicinity: Its Climate, Missions, Trails and Canons, Fruits, Flowers and Game [California]
by Holder, Charles Frederick (1851-1915)
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Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1889. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Original pictorial blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. [viii], 141 pages with an index. 16 Illustrations from woodcuts plus a frontispiece and some in-text drawings. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Light wear to cloth, First Edition.. A scarce history and guide for visitors. Includes a chapter on Mountain Retreats and Seaside Resorts. Written during the period when 'health seekers' began to descend on Southern California. It was the health benefit that first brought Holder here from Massachusetts. An avid outdoorsman he organized the sophisticated Valley Hunt Club in 188O. Ref: ROCQ 4622; Cowan, p.289; Walker, 115
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Second Annual Report of the bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1880-1881 [Native Americans, Zuni]
by Powell (J. W.); Director
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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Brown publisher's cloth with stamped gilt emblem of Native American Chief with gilt spine titles. Tall 4to; 11.75 inches tall; xxxvii, 477 pages : 77 plates, figures. 1-35, 347-714 (382 of these forming 98 plates), (some color with tissue guards), 2 maps. plates, maps. The bindings are firm with openings to the paper on the front hinge. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubbed corners and spine tips. Area of a damp-stain on the rear board . Contents: Powell's Report *** Zuni Fetiches, by Frank Hamilton Cushing; *** Myths of the Iroquois, by Erminnie A. Smith; *** Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi valley, by Henry W. Henshaw; *** Navajo Silversmiths, by Dr. Washington Matthews; *** Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans, by William H. Holmes; *** Illustrated catalogue of the collections obtained from the Indians of New…
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Flint Spears Cowboy Rodeo Contestant
by James, Will
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N. Y.: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1938. Book. Illus. by Will James. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition ?. Very good, with some wear to extremities. The price-clipped jacket is quite edgeworn, with fraying to top edge, but all the cover lettering and illustration are clear. There is a one inch inverted V chip at the bottom of the spine, that just clips the left side of the S in Scribners, a small chip at spine top, and a hole 1/4 inch diameter in centre of back spine fold. Nonetheless, all lettering is again clear and legible. Overall, this remains a presentable copy. Without the " A ". No indication of reprinting..
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The Origin of the North American Indians
by McIntosh, John
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New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1843. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good Hardcover;/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Professorially rebound in polished half-leather to maroon cloth with new endpages. 12mo; 7.75 inches tall; 1 p. l., (i) vi-xxxv, (1) 37-311 p. 3 other plates included in pagination. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning with some foxing. A handsome book. First Edition, First Printing.. A treatise on the Asiatic origin of the North American Indian, with comparisons of physiognomy, language, religion, dress, rites.. [From the title page] With a Faithful Description of their Manners and Customs, both Civil and Military, Their Religions, Languages, Dress, and Ornaments. To which is prefixed a brief view of the creation of the world, the situation of the garden of Eden, the Antediluvians, the foundation of Nations by the posterity of Noah, the progenitors of the N. Americans and the discovery of the New World by Columbus. Concluding with a…
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Record of Engagements with Hostile Indians Within the Military Division of the Missouri, from 1868 to 1882
by Sheridan, Lieutenant General P. H. (1831-1888
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Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1882. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Half pebbled leather with matching in color cloth; spine titles in gilt with black lined divisions. Marbled endpages with matching textblock. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Text is clean with appropriate age-toning. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 111 pages of text followed by blank pages presumed to give the spine room for the titles. A very handsome rebinding. Graff records an edition prior to this in Chicago in 1882.. Compiled from official reports describing over 400 engagements in chronological order, including a lengthy description of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. After the US Civil War Sheridan reported to the Gulf of Mexico, where his presence along the Texas border hastened the fall of Maximilian, the French puppet emperor in Mexico, in 1867. He was later named military commander of Louisiana and Texas (1867), but his harsh administration of…
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All About Pasadena and Its Vicinity: Its Climate, Missions, Trails and Canons, Fruits, Flowers and Game [California]
by Holder, Charles Frederick (1851-1915)
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Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1889. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Original pictorial blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. [viii], 141 pages with an index. 16 Illustrations from woodcuts plus a frontispiece and some in-text drawings. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Light wear to cloth, First Edition.. A scarce history and guide for visitors. Includes a chapter on Mountain Retreats and Seaside Resorts. Written during the period when 'health seekers' began to descend on Southern California. It was the health benefit that first brought Holder here from Massachusetts. An avid outdoorsman he organized the sophisticated Valley Hunt Club in 188O. Ref: ROCQ 4622; Cowan, p.289; Walker, 115
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Second Annual Report of the bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1880-1881 [Native Americans, Zuni]
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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Brown publisher's cloth with stamped gilt emblem of Native American Chief with gilt spine titles. Tall 4to; 11.75 inches tall; xxxvii, 477 pages : 77 plates, figures. 1-35, 347-714 (382 of these forming 98 plates), (some color with tissue guards), 2 maps. plates, maps. The bindings are firm with openings to the paper on the front hinge. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubbed corners and spine tips. Area of a damp-stain on the rear board . Contents: Powell's Report *** Zuni Fetiches, by Frank Hamilton Cushing; *** Myths of the Iroquois, by Erminnie A. Smith; *** Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi valley, by Henry W. Henshaw; *** Navajo Silversmiths, by Dr. Washington Matthews; *** Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans, by William H. Holmes; *** Illustrated catalogue of the collections obtained from the Indians of New…
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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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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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Following the Flag; Diary of a Soldier's Wife
by Sargent, Alice Applegate
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Kansas City, KS: E. B. Barnett, Publisher Book. VG. Hardcover. Presumed 1st Edition. Book is blue cloth covered boards with paste-on American flag on front. The book has minor shelf edge wear with no other defects to note. No date - circa 1919. 91 pages with black and white frontis - a picture of the author in fancy dress in Washington in 1909. Married to an officer of the 2nd Cavalry in 1866, Sargent relates to experiences at Fort Bidwell, Fort Walla Walla, to Arizona. Four years at Fort Huachuca, Fort Bowie, to Fort Logan, Colorado and at Fort Wingate. .
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Defending Eden. New Mexican Pioneers in the San Bernardino Valley.
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Yellowstone Park Lodges and Camps
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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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In the Big Horn Mountains: Deer Haven Lodge Tensleep, Wyoming on Highway No. 16
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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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THE HELMET OF MAMBRINO
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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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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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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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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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Los Fundadores
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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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Legislative History: Arizona, 1864-1912
by Kelly, George H
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Phoenix: Manufacturing Stationers Inc., 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition; possibly rebound, as the date is stamped on the spine but not recently; 8vo, brown cloth, no dj; vg (spine ends bumped and rubbed; top corner of front board bumped; edges and pages toning); ten fine folding maps, 399pp incl. index.
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