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New York: Exposition Press, [1952]. 80 pages. Original blue cloth with green lettering. [22 cm.] Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. A hint of sun to top edges of covers, endpapers slightly foxed. Jacket is slightly sunned on the spine panel and shows tiny chips at the spine ends and one corner. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free paper, with a generic inscription ("With many good wishes.") The first and only collection of the author's poems. Her only other publication was a collection of stories, "At Christmas Time the World Grows Young" (1939). A native of West Point, Nebraska, Almy was a longtime resident of Lincoln, where she was active in numerous literary and civic organizations.

N.Y.: Carlton Press, [1968]. 123 pp. Original orange cloth. [21 cm]. Very nearly fine in very good plus dust jacket. Spine panel of dust jacket is sun-faded and shows tiny tears at base with repair on verso. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, dated in the year of publication, on the title page. A memoir of the author's boyhood in the vicinity of Cloud Chief, Washita County, Oklahoma. There is much also on the Gantz family. Included are recollections of a covered wagon trip to Texas, Dawson's education at the Eureka School, the expansion of roads and the coming of automobiles, the Arapahoe Indians living near Colony, social life, etc.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1971]. 312 pages, plus plates reproducing historic photographs. Original quarter cloth and boards. [23.4 cm.] Bookplate on front pastedown and name on front flyleaf, else a fine copy in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket has short tear (less than two centimeter), slight crease to front panel and some tiny evidence of soil. FIRST EDITION.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1970]. 278 pages, plus plates reproducing historic photographs. Original cloth. [23.5 cm.] A fine copy in very good plus dust jacket. Jacket shows light rubbing to spine panel, slight bumps to ends of spine panel, and soiling to rear panel. FIRST EDITION. A first-person account of ranch life on the "Staked Plains," the vast tablelands of eastern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle. The author moved to the Llano Estacado in 1887. His wrote extensively about his experiences as a cowboy in newspapers and periodicals under the pen name, "Ol' Waddy.

Austin: Encino Press, 1971. xiii, [1], 74 pages, plus portrait frontispiece. Illustrated with several historic photographs. Original boards. Endpaper map. [23.5 cm.] A fine copy in original publisher's mylar dust jacket (faintly rubbed, tiny chip at head of spine). [Note: Listing photo does not depict jacket.] FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, on a front blank.

[Oklahoma City]: Oklahoma Historical Society, [1955]. 169-182 pages, plus photographic plate. Full-page map reckoned in the pagination. Original printed wraps. [22.8 cm.] Very good. Some light foxing to front wrap and a few marks to rear wrap, but internally clean. Manuscript correction to caption of plate. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, being an offprint from "The Chronicles of Oklahoma," vol. 33, no. 2. Laid-in is a leaflet, "The Sequoyah Memorial. Oklahoma History Class, Sallisaw High School ... 1955-1956," published by the Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce. [Four pages, illustrated, 21.5 cm.] SCARCE.