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Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1990]. vi, 170 pages; illustrated with a few photographs printed with the text. Original cloth. [23.4 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. 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.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1929. 274 pages, plus plates. Original dark green cloth. Endpaper maps. [23.9 cm.] Very good. Spine shows a just a hint of sun, foxing to margins of plates and facing pages, else a clean, solid copy. Attractive bookplate signed (in print) by Ainslee Hewett, dated 1913, on blank verso of front free endpaper. [Hewett (1880-1963), an artist from Louisville, Kentucky was active as a bookplate designer from 1909 to 1951. This bookplate bears the names of Edwin Vivian Thompson and Ida Bette Halbreath Thompson.] FIRST EDITION.

Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1939. 247 pages, plus portrait frontispiece and a number of plates reproducing historic photographs. Original cloth. [23.5 cm.] A very good plus copy in about very good dust jacket. Book is slightly bumped on corners and shows some faint marginal foxing to plates and facing pages. Jacket is sunned (unevenly on front and rear panels) and has tiny tear to hinge between spine and rear panels. FIRST EDITION. Recounts Stevenson's honeymoon in Napa Valley, California, a journey which served as the basis for his book, "The Silverado Squatters."

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. xiv, 266 pages, plus frontispiece and folding map at rear. Original cloth. [24.1 cm.] About very good in good only dust jacket. Cloth shows light traces of foxing at head of spine and along top edges of boards, and some minor rubbing to spine ends. Occasional and very light pencil marks in the margins, interior otherwise clean. Jacket has a few small chips, not affecting lettering, including a dime size chip to the base of the spine panel, and some tears with internal tape repairs. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SOUTHERN HISTORIAN, FLETCHER M. GREEN, on the front free endpaper. The inscription indicates he used this copy for his review of the book in "The Emory University Quarterly." [Fletcher Melvin Green (1895-1978) taught at Emory University in the early 1930's before becoming a longtime member of the history faculty at the University of North Carolina (1936-1966) and publishing a number of scholarly books.] A significant… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. Published as part of the "American Forestry Series." xiii, [1], 401 pages. Original cloth. [23.5 cm.] About fine in good plus dust jacket. Just a hint of fading at head of front cover, still an excellent copy. Jacket is sun-faded and has two tiny chips, not affecting text. FIRST EDITION. Numerous maps, photographs, and charts in the text.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, [1967]. 298 pages. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Original cloth. [23.5 cm.] About fine in near dust jacket. Book has a light trace of dust soil to top edge. Jacket has tiny tear (less than one quarter inch) to head of spine, neatly repaired with archival tape on verso, and faint mark to rear panel. Still a nice copy. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the title page, with his generic presentation inscription ("With the compliments of the author").