Search Results: West from The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)

St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press, 1970. first edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. As new in dust jacket. Fardcover in brown faux leather decorated and lettered in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. 142 pp. plus index. Illustrated with maps and vintage reproductions. Important professionally researched work that looks first at the decimation of the American buffalo in the 19th century and then examines the conservation efforts and resuls from 1900 foward. The author also looks at the influence of economic incentives on the American buffalo population in the second half of the 20th century up to the date of publication.

Mangan Books, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. As new in dust jacket. First printing .Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Hardcover. Double page map frontis. 467 pp. with bibloography, index. 14 maps and additional photo illustrations. The untold story of lines drawn in water, sand and blood and of the intrepid durable people on both sides of the United States -Mexico border. The book chronicles the two-thousand mile line between the two countries--from Brownsville, Texas on the Gulf of Mexico to near San Diego on the Pacific Coast---from the 1830s, through the Mexican War, the various conflicts and battles, the building of dams and the conflict for water, and finally the more modern day immigrations and deportations.

Texas A&M University Press, 2000. Second edition. Paperback. As New. New, unused copy. Color illustrated softcovers. 331 pp. with index. Illustrated throughout with color photos of each of the featured buildings.

Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1994. First edition thus. Paperback. Illustrated softcovers. 123 pp. With chronology, bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. First trade edition. Generally fine with a touch of rubbing to the lower left spine corner. Mongraph on John Fletcher Lummis, who arrived in Los Angeles from Ohio in 1885 and built El Alisal, a rustic American craftsman-style 4000 square foot home in the late 19th and early 20th century. It today houses the Historical Sociry of Southern California.

Denver: Chas. J. Kelly, 1896. Second edition. Wraps. Very Good. Printed wrappers. 99 pp. Inscribed on the top of the title page "Compliments of J.F. Vaile". "Second Edition stated on the front wrap. Treatise on one of the burning questions of the 1896 campaign, the issue of bimetallism. Vaile was a prominent and wealthy Denver lawyer who would lated serve as president of the Colorado Bar Association. Generally very good with some shallow chipping and loss to the lower corners of the front and rear wraps, some loss at the spine strip. Small hole near bottom portion of the text extends from p61-99 and rear wrap.

New York: Scribners, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition. Fine in generally fine dust jacket whose only fault is a bit of toning to the spine strip. Oversized hardcover. Map endpapers. ix+ 239 pp. with index. With 352 illustrations including numerous first-hand photographic images.

Austin: Encino Press, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine, bright, price clipped dust jacket. Oblong hardcover. vi+ 190 pp. with index. Nearly 100 maps by Edward Triggs and Lance Wren with Pool's explanatory text illustrate the physical foundation of the state's development --geography, solis, geology, moisture regions, plant life and archaeology--and many other elements such as Indian reibes, Spanish settlements, French expeditions and settlements, early American immigration, thetexas Revolution and Republic, annexation, Civil War, Indians Wars, etc.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. fine/very good. First printing. Hardcover, map endpapers, xi+ 211 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with numerous reproductions of 19th century documents, posters, engravings, paintings. In 1846, John Banvard, who wanted to "paint the biggest picture in the world", unrolled before the audience the first of the huge, moving "panoramas" of the Mississippi. These entertainments spread around the world, providing the public with a combination newsreel-travelogue-documentary "movie" in which one long pictorial canvass rolled between two revolving cylinders. This work tells the story of five of the most famous panoramas of the places and people along the Mississippi as well as their makers. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket.

Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Historical Society, 1935. Softcover. Fine. Printed stiff wrappers. Seqentially paginated 249-355 with index + viii )contents for all 1935 publications). Fine, some toning about the edges. This issue contains: "Onate a Maurauder?" by G.P. Hammond; "Bourke on the Southwest VII" by L.B. Bloom; "Kit Carson, Catholic" by Father Claudius Antony.

Indianpolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. As New. Two volumes, first editions. A fully fine, fresh set in buff colored buckram cloth, spines stamped in red and gilt. Volume I: xiii+ 632 pp. Title page printed in red and black. Nine maps and illustrated with duotone photographic plates; Volume II: viii+ 686 pp. with index, bibliographic essay. Five maps and numerous duotone plates. (Note: due to size and weight, additional postage may be required).

Seattle: Superior, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Firts edition stated. Oversized hardcovers. 182 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated throughout with vintage photographs of the Old West as well as portraits of the photographers. Fine (some light foxing to the half-title) in bright, crisp dust jacket with a touch of wear at the spine extremities. The story of the men who caught with their cameras hisotry being made in the American West from 1875 to 1910. The author presents the best and rarest work of such photographers as Frank N. Howell (Alaska), Arnold Genthe (San Francisco earthquake and chinatown), Darius Kinsey (Washington State logging), Edward S. Curtis (indians), A.W. Ericson (redwoods), Thomas McKee (Mesa Verde and Ute tribe), Henry S. Peabody (Los Angeles, and Lee Passmore (San Diego).

Washington DC: GPO, 1913. Hardcover. Slim 8vo in olive green hardcovers. Deaccessioned from a college library, so stamped on the endapers. 76 pp. with bibliography, folding panoramic photo and other photographic plates. Tight and fine but ex-lib.

London and New York: Longmans, Green, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition (stated). Large octavo in dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. xvi+ 274 pp. with index. Numerous monotone photographic plates and reproductions. A tight, fine example, tasteful vintage bookplate front pastedown. No jacket. The first comprehensive hisotry of the Oregon Trail, expanding signifiicanly on Parkman's 1848 work and the 1898 Inman and Cody book. Ghent begins the story with the "pathmakers" , Mainlythe trappers and fur traders, the missionaries who followed, the first caravans of the late 1830s and early 40s, the Great Migration, the Gold Rush, te stage coach era and finally the decline of the trail.

Marlowe & Company, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. viii+ 215 pp. Novelized recreation of the life of Joshua Norton, an original '49er and resident of San Francisco who in 1859 declared himself Emperor Of The United States and Protector Of Mexico. Until his death in 1880, the eccentric Norton "presided" over public life in San Francisco, attendings functions dressed in his uniform and plumed hat. He eventally became one of the city's most publicized attractions.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. fine. First edition. A fine, tight, bright example, light tan paper covered boards decorated ad lettered in dark brown. No jacket. Vii+ 101 pp. Collection of lyrics of 40 songs and ballads of the Old West.

(Cincinnati), 1921. Wraps. Fine. Pamphlet of 16 pp. in printed stiff wrppers. Fine. William Henry Venable (1836-1920) was a noted educator, lecturer and writer of history, poetry, and memoirs, who worked in around Cincinnati, as well as other vareas in Ohio and Indiana.