Search Results: The West from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0806116900 Reflections on history, historians, and historical writing in the western states directed at the nonprofessional to whom history is at least a joy, and perhaps a passion. 120pp.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1955. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). over 1,000 B&W ill.. 511pp.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1982. HC. good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0517100797 First published in 1953. A survey of the original art of the period - sketches, water-colors, engravings, lithographs, oil-paintings, which have historical significance. Examines the historical relevance of the artists pictures and seeks to establish the authority of the illustrators, whether their work was based on personal experience, reminiscence, or pure imagination. 400pp.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. HC. very good+, brown cloth (hardcover). ISBN 0313245924 213pp.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1958. HC. very good, tan cloth spine (hardcover) (no dustjacket). No Dustjacket. 310pp.

Philadelphia, PA: Church Historical Society, 1950. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. Stories of the Church on the western borders of our civilization from 1892 through 1943. 220pp.

Brookville, OH: Calligrafree, 1976. PB. very good, wraps (softcover) BUMP TOP OF SPINE. B&W illustrations. BUMP TOP OF SPINE 13pp.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1990. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 0292711212 200pp.

Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1976. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). 11 B&W ill., 50 color plates. ISBN 088360051X City views which truly convey the look of the urban West when the region was young and every town could dream of a glorious future. 99pp.

Pierre, SD: South Dakota Hist. Soc. Pr, 1998. PB. good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0962262153 173pp.

Washington, DC: Command Publications, 1978. HC. good+, blue cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 214pp.

Secaucus, NJ: Castle, 1981. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0890094411 43 exciting stories and articles about the early West. 484pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0394400461 "The saga of the forty-niners - their adventures and ordeals, their courage and greed, their inqenuities, delusions, bonanzas, and catastrophies - in California and on the way there." 361pp.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). Author shows that the facts of the Gold Rush are more intriguing than the fantasies. 209pp.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1935. HC. good+, decorated orange cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. No dustjacket - as published? 108pp.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1961. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). 650 B&W and color ill.. Here is the full western story, from the days of the conquistadores to the twentieth century, in an account noatable not only for its comprehensiveness, but also for its amazing collection of photographs which show all aspects of the West as it actually was. 288pp.

Poole, Dorset, UK: Gallery Books, 1990. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). over 300 B&W line drawings. ISBN 0831742550 Facsimiles of original articles create the mood of the past era of early Northern life in Montana, the Dakotas, the Great Lakes area and Canada. 531pp.

Reno, NV: Holabird Associates, 2003. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. A fine montage of items for sale, including: Stock Certificates; postcards; railroad books; hardgoods; bottles, tokens; and much more. 174pp.

Chicago: Brownstone Books, 1981. HC. very good, light olive green cloth (hardocver) no DJ as publishe. B&W illustrations. No dustjacket as published -- Author writes of his parents from 1910 to 1914 went they settled on a homestead near Fort Benton, Montana. 206pp.

New York: Vantage Press, 1972. HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) small closed tear on dj. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0533001552 Buck Ziegler, the focal character and first-person speaker of this volume, is a nineteenth-century man living in a twentieth-century world. Buck's story is a richly detailed account of modern ranch life. 177pp.