Search Results: Western Biography from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 386pp. 386pp. Illus. Copyright is 1965 but printing was 1984. Armitage, among other professional callings, was a fine book designer, and examples of his work are found liberally throughout the Western Americana field. Fine in dj.

S. F.: Press of San Francisco Photo-Engraving Co, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st printing. 12mo elaborately gilt-stamped dark blue cloth. 56pp. Nicely illustrated. Fine. Scarce. Cowan p290.

Calgary: Frontier Publishing, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. This may be a first printing, but it is sometimes hard to determine on the Anderson books when a few later titles are listed on the back cover. Pictorial wraps. 47pp. Illus. References. Map. Brief biography of the "Cree outlaw." From the internet: "Almighty Voice's tragic confrontation with the NWMP highlights the tension between Indigenous peoples and federal and police agents on reserves during the 1890s." A few stains on lower back cover; still a vg copy.

Boston, 1978, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st printing. Cloth blind stamped with roadrunner on front cover. 264pp. Illust/photos. Bibliographical Note. Index. The most complete biography of the great Texas writer. Fine in dj. 1st printings are uncommon.

Little Brown, Boston, 1978, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 2nd printing. Cloth. 264pp. Illust. Bibliographical Note. Index. A well-written biography of the great Texas writer, story teller, and academic maverick. Fine in very slightly soiled dj.

Little, Brown, Boston, 1978, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/As New. 1st printing. Cloth with blindstamped roadrunner (paisano) on front cover. 264pp. Bibliographical Note. Index. The definitive biography of the great Texas writer & collector of folk tales. Fine in dj.

Norman: OU, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 432pp. Illus. Checklist of Rhodes Writing. Index. Fine in near fine (very slightly rubbed in a spot or two), pc dj.

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth. 334pp. Illust. teg. Bookplate of artist Harold Smith on front paste down with slight offset on facing ffep. Laid in is a lengthy news clipping about Holliday's son. Vg, no dj as issued. A scarce A.H. Clark book. Clark 89, 6-guns 762.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 399pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Fine in dj with some foxing on backstrip.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/As New. This is a hardbound print-on-demand title in the 1st edition. 236pp. Illus. Notes. Bibliography. Index. INITIALED by Vinson & dated soon after publication. He notes a correction on a page. For anyone who has any interest in Western Americana, Jenkins was the dealer who for years repeatedly had incredible material. Your bookseller purchased a lot of books from him. His death was considered a suicide, but... Fine, new copy in fine, new dj.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/As New. This is a hardbound print-on-demand title in the 1st edition. 236pp. Illus. Notes. Bibliography. Index. For anyone who has any interest in Western Americana, Jenkins was the dealer who for years repeatedly had incredible material. Your bookseller purchased a lot of books from him. His death was considered a suicide, but... Fine, new copy in fine, new dj.

Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth and boards. 321pp. Index. Chapter head vignettes. Long considered one of the better cowman autobiographies; Northern Plains: Nebraska, South Dakota. This book won the 1970 Spur Award of the Western Writers of America. Fine in dj. Scarce now in first edition.

NY: Missionary Education Movement of the U. S. and Canada, 1919. First Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st printing thus in pictorial wraps. 171pp. Illustrated with vintage photos & a painting in b/w by Charlie Russell. Frontispiece of Van on a horse. Owner's signature on front cover under title. An affectionate account of Methodist circuit rider William Wesley Van Orsdel in pre-1900 Montana. Vg+. Copies in this nice condition are scarce.

Caldwell: Caxton, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st printing. Cloth. 292pp. Illus. Index. Endpaper maps. Simple presentation signed by Poe on Feb. 1 - 1947, to Mr. & Mrs. G. H. Bareman or Boreman or Coreman. Ms. Poe was the wife of John Poe of Billy the Kid history. Fine. No dj. Rare signed. 6-guns 1744.

Chicago: Rand, McNally, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st printing. Professionally rebound in red-orange cloth with black imprinted spine with decoration. 275pp. I compared this copy, which I received disbound, with a copy in original binding which I have sold. This copy is missing the Buffalo Bill front., but has the second one as well as Burke's portrait. My comparison showed this copy has an additional ad (one ad is for Siringo's A Texas Cow-Boy). Text block in vg to near fine condition; title page which is thick enough to be a front cover, is in vg condition. My research on the previous copy has me saying the following: "This book's rarity is noted in the 2005 (non-facsimile) paperback reprint, where the writer of the Intro, Dr. Jason Berger, says that only one of four modern Cody biographers even cited this book, & then just barely. Very few copies of this book have been offered for sale in the last eighty odd years, & few libraries have a copy. The owner of this copy may be… Read More

Chicago: Swallow Pr, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2nd printing. Brown clloth. 500pp. Illus. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Very good in near fine dj. The front board has an area where the brown is slightly faded, I suspect from a water spill. This sounds bad, but there is no warping or odor and the copy still grades even with this "very good." Dj has a short tape repair upper flap edge front panel and minor wear.

(Ft. Collins): Privately Printed, 1953. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good+. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 24pp. Illustrated mainly with b/w photos. Some stains inside front cover; owner's signature/place at bottom of same.

Oxford, NY, 1955, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. 4to pictorial cloth & boards. 278pp. Illust. Bibliography. Picture credits. Index. Endpaper maps. Near fine in soiled dj with a couple of tiny chips & corner tear.

Caldwell: Caxton, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Gilt-stamped cloth. 396pp. Illustrated with photos & portraits. Author's Preface, two Introductions (Franklin Hall & Col. Wm. Bowen), Bibliography, Appendix (Custer Battlefield Nat'l Cemetery & Casualty Lost of the Battle of the Little Big Horn), Appendix Reference Notes, Source Material for Appendix. Also, "Custer's Last Fight" by Col. Bowen. Tipped in following the title/copyright leaf is a nearly full page informative presentation written in ink from Forrest to bookseller/collector Jerome Peltier, dated in 1956. Laid in is a brief 1956 TLS on Forrest's Observer Pub Co (Washington, Pennsylvania) letterhead & with printed mailing envelope from Forrest to same recipient re autographs. "Of all the Indian fighters, army scouts, and frontiersmen produced by the old West of three-quarters of a century ago, none were better known in their day than Moses E. Milner, famous from the Missouri to the Pacific as "California Joe." The number… Read More

Stillwater: New Forums, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 174pp. A whole saddlebag full of stories about real people, places, and events, by the famous Perkins, Oklahoma, cowboy, Eaton, whose likeness is the mascot of the Oklahoma State University Cowboys. Fine, like new in dj.