Search Results: General Frontier from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Chicago: Swallow Pr, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 349pp. Illus. Index. Endpaper maps. Truly interesting questions & knowledgeable answers. Fine, like new in dj. Scarce now.

Kansas City: Midamerica Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 1st printing. Cloth with title labels. 285pp. Bibliography. "Here is the definitive book on the old-time tramp printer...Thirty-four chapters crammed with social history, high adventures, and un-shirted hilarity!" Fine in pc (large clip) dj. Dj has a few small chips & an area dark-rubbed on the backstrip.

Holt, NY, 1936, 1936. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 2nd printing of 1930 book. Cloth with gilt-stamped spine. 595pp. Supplementary Readings. Index. Covers the Western movement from across the Appalachians to the Transcontinental railroads. Lewis & Clark, Texas, Oregon, Mormons, Civil War, Custer, cattle country etc.. Good+, no dj. Herd 1898, 6-guns 1857.

NY: Smithmark Pub, 1992. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Attractive folio pictorial hardbound. 256pp. Profusely illustrated with vintage photos & prints. Index. Color maps for the endpapers. One of the most desirable modern pictorial survey books on the Old West. Recommended. Fine in dj (1" closed tear on back panel).

Wash DC, 1958, 1958. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. Wraps. 32pp. Essay on Turner's Frontier Hypothesis. Vg.

LaGrande: Bear Wallow, 1988. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 1st printing, ltd edition, unstated limitation to 1,500 copies. 8" x 9" quarto hardbound with b/w pioneer photo print affixed by publisher to front cover.192pp. Very nicely illustrated with vintage photos, 1850s - 1920s, taken from around the West. Endpaper maps with locations noted. Signed by Gildemeister. This is a lovely product of the Bear Wallow Press that specialized in exceptionally designed & bound books on the West. They only produced a few titles. As the title suggests, this is a grouping of verbal vignettes about the West, further illustrated with the photos. Fine, as new IN ORIGINAL PRINTED MAILING BOX. No dj as issued.

Western Publications, Austin, 1962. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Pictorial wraps. 64pp. Illust. "Eighteen features and a special array of authentic old-time photos..." Volume 36, #3. Fine condition. No mailing label.

Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Collectible As New. Full gilt-stamped leather bound limited edition to 100 copies, of which this is number 40 signed by the authors. 300pp. Illus. Along with this volume is the matching 37 page booklet, "From Father to Son, and Once Again" signed numbered (#40) and signed by Clark. Fine, unread, as new copies.

Scranton: William Morrow, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition. Cloth & boards. 203pp. Illust. Inscribed & dated by Woodbury in year of publication . Selections from the author's newspaper. Near fine in dj.

New York: Abrams Image, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible As New. Pictorial 4to hardbound. 167pp. Index. Time Line. Signed by both authors & dated '09 on the blank verso of the ffep. Original ink drawing of Boilerplate by Guinan on same page. A spectacular book! The authors have created a character named Boilerplate, who looks like a WWI Doughboy made out of a cylinder boiler with arms, legs, & head with WWI helmet. They photo-shopped him into real photos & prints/posters of historical events (and theatrical events) from the late 19th Century into the early 20th Century, & have written a text explaining the real history, interwoven with Boilerplate's imagined place in that history. Thoroughly illustrated in color & b/w with vintage photos (including Boilerplate!), maps, prints, etc.. Example: full page poster in color from a fictitious Jack London play, "Marvel of the Klondike" showing Boilerplate wrestling with a bear in a saloon, captioned, "The Metal Man Triumphs Over An Enormous… Read More

Simon & Schuster, NY, 1969, 1969. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. New Printing, revised and expanded edition, 1st printing thus. Pictorial cloth. 608pp. Illust. Additional readings. Index. fos. A big, thick, survey of the American West & its history. Monaghan was Consultant to the Wyles Collection of Lincolniana and Western Americana at the Univ. of California. Ample Oklahoma material included. Fine in dj with several tears & a couple of chips. cf 6-guns 1527. Oversized.

Alexandria: Time Life, 1982. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. As New. Facsimile reprint. Giltp-stamped faux leather. 290pp. Illus. Fine, like new.

Boston, 1962, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 1st edition. Cloth. 467pp. fos/address on half-title. Well written "informal. history of the men who explored, settled and fought in the mountains." Vg in edgeworn dj.

Denver, 1972, 1972. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Fine. Ltd to 750 copies (this # 601). Pictorial cloth. 400pp. Illust. Pictorial endpapers. Fine copy with fitted glassine protector.

Denver, 1966, 1966. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. As New/As New. Ltd to 635 numbered copies (this # 633). Pictorial cloth. 411pp. Illust. Fine, as new in dj.

Denver, 1970, 1970. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Ltd to 700 copies (this #610). Gilt-stamped silver cloth. 461pp. Illust. Index. Pictorial endpapers. Publication folder laid in. Fine, as new in dj. One of the scarcer volumes.

Denver, 1973, 1973. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. As New. Ltd to 700 copies (this # 519). Gilt-stamped cloth with fitted glassine cover. 421pp. Illust. Facsimile of Nov. 4, 1876 Denver Mirror in back pocket. Fine, as new. One of the scarcer numbers.

NY: Knopf, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 1st printing. Cloth & boards, with sculptured design on front board. 399pp. Illustrated with drawings. Bibliography. Small rust or stain upper corner of fore edge, else fine in dj.

Chicago: Donohue Bros, 1883. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good-. Later edition, date not printed. Original edition was 1883. Decorative red, black, silver cloth. 540pp. Illus. fos & early price in ink on ffep. Chapters on Boone, Crawford, Girty, Finney, Adams & McCullough, Wetzel, Kenton George Clark, Capt Brady, Crockett, Houston, Carson, Custer, Cody, Hickok, California Joe, Texas Jack, Capt Jack, & Crook. Residue on lower spine, some light spotting on borders of back cover, & somewhat worn, but actually vg in the original cloth. Many copies for sale have broken hinges; these are sound & original. Howes C245. 6-guns 399.

various: USPS. Soft cover. Fine. Fifteen (15) FIRST DAY OF ISSUE printed & stamped & mailed envelopes, each one to a different recipient. All in vg to fine condition. Each has the illustration on the left side & the appropriate identification. Each is cancelled "FIRST DAY OF ISSUE." 25th Anniversary Future Farmers of America Oct 13, 1953 Kansas City, 100th Anniversary Kansas Territory May 31, 1954 Fort Leavenworth, Arkansas River Navigation Project Oct 1, 1968 Little Rock, Opening of the Mackinac Straits Bridge June 25, 1958 Mackinac Bridge, 50th Anniversary of the Organization of the Rough Riders Oct 27, 1948 Prescott (Ariz), 100th Anniversary of the Gadsen Purchase Dec 30, 1953 Tucson, 100th Anniversary of the Homestead Act May 20, 1962 Beatrice Nebr, 100th Anniversary of Oregon Statehood Feb 14, 1959 Astoria, Devils Tower National Monument Sept 24, 1956 Devils Tower, 100th Anniversary of the discovery of the Comstock Lode Nevada June 8, 1959 Virginia City, The Admission of Alaska to Statehood Jan… Read More