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Los Angeles: Frontier, 1964 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Frontier Magazine. Kennedy assassination issue, January, 1964. Quarto. 28pp. White wrappers printed in black and orange. Stamp on cover of Women's Faculty Club. A fine copy. Other articles include, "Lee Oswald: A Study in Frantic Contradictions; The Kennedy Presidency" by Ernest R. May, " The Odds Favor the New President" by Gifford Phillips, and more. Frontier was a liberal West Coast political monthly founded in 1949 by Gifford Phillips (1918-2013) along with editor Phil Kerby. Frontier, among other things, exposed the blacklist in 1954 and continued until 1966 when it merged with The Nation of New York City. Phillips served as associate publisher of that magazine from 1966 to 1970. Laid in is a copy of Gifford Phillips' obituary..
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Dallas. It Could Have Happened in Any City but Few Were Surprised When It Happened in Dallas. The Frantic Life of Lee Oswald. [within]: Frontier magazine, Kennedy assassination issue.
by Owens, Robert T.
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Dan De Quille of the Big Bonanza
by Rawls, James J. [Editor]
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1980 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 650 copies printed by Arlen and Clara Louise Philpott. Introduction by the Editor. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. 128pp. Frontis portrait, plates. Cloth-backed patterned boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. A collection of stories and humorous sketches by one of the most talented journalists of the West. He was an early associate of Mark Twain who urged him to write his mining history, The Big Bonanza and thus preserve the history and legendry of the Comstock Lode. Dan De Quille also served as reporter and editor on the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise for more than thirty years and was a frequent contributor to The Overland Monthly and Golden Era in San Francisco. Rawls provides an introduction surveying the life of Dan De Quille, and in his brief foreword, Oscar Lewis tells of the discovery and identification of the manuscripts from which this volume is formed..
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Dance Back the Buffalo
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. [10], 406pp. Map endpapers. Rust cloth lettered in black. A fine copy with lightly rubbed and chipped pictorial dust jacket. An historical novel based on the events, and the resulting conflict with the frontier military, surrounding the religious Ghost Dance of the 1889 and 1890 period when the Plains Indians sought to bring back the Buffalo and the old way of life..
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Dancing Colors
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San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 120pp. Bibliogrphy an index. Profusely illutrated with photographs. Pictorial boards. A very fine copy in lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket. Photographs of clothing and objects that were part of daily life for Native American women. Moccasin, dresses, jewelery, blankets, tipis, houseoud tools..
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The Dangers and Sufferings of Robert Eastburn, and His Deliverance from Indian Captivity
by Spears, John R. [Editor]
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Cleveland: Burrows Brothers Company, 1904 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Number 28 of 267 numbered copies reprinted from the rare 1758 first edition. 76pp. Facsimile title page, index. Maroon cloth, gilt, top edges gilt. Very slight rubbing to spine extremities. A fine copy. [Howes I: E-15; Howes II: E-15]..
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A Daughter of the Sioux. A Tale of the Indian Frontier.
by King, Charles
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New York: The Hobart Co., 1903 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. This is the true first edition with "Published March 15, 1903" on copyright page. 306pp. plus 8 black & white plates. Red pictorial cloth, gilt lettering, color photographic paste-down of Indian maiden on front cover, top edges gilt. Original owner's neat inscription and date on end (Dec. 25, 1903). A very fine copy. A very bright copy of General King's work, with illustrations by Frederic Remington and Edwin Willard Deming. A government surveyor suspects that Nanette, known at Fort Frayne as the "daughter of the Sioux" is giving information about the fort's defenses to the Indians. Nanette turns out to be a white child stolen long ago by the Sioux. Intrigue, love, etc. A pretty good story..
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Daughters of Mars [an original holograph manuscript]
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1950 Handwritten. Fine. No Binding. An original holograph manuscript. 42 leaves, very closely written on rectos only of legal-size lined note paper. Fine condition. Housed in a folding leather case, lettered in gilt on front cover. No place, no date (c.1950). A long holograph manuscript in Bromfield's customary minuscule handwriting. Louis Bromfield (1896-1956) was an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition winning the Pulitzer Prize (for Early Autumn) and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts. During his career Bromfield wrote 30 books, all of which were best-sellers; some were made into successful motion pictures. Bromfield married in 1921 to New York socialite Mary Appleton Wood and was friends with some of the most celebrated personalities of his era. Presentation inscription, signed by Bromfield on first leaf, "For Marian and John with special love - but no truck with Libby who can't even park her ass on my manure pile - Louis."…
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Dave Cook of the Rockies: Frontier General, Fighting Sheriff, and Leader of Men
by Collier, William Ross and Edwin Victor Westrate
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New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, 1936 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. 224pp. Frontis portrait, 13 illustrations from old photographs. Maroon cloth lettered in black. A fine copy with slightly chipped and spine-darkened pictorial dust jacket (jacket is scarce!). Biography of this famous Colorado detective from the beginning in 1859 when he went to Colorado during the gold rush, to guarding supply trains during the Civil War, to his death in 1907. Cook became city marshal of Denver, was sheriff of Arapaho County, was a United States marshal, General of the Colorado Militia, and founder and Chief of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association. During his 40 year career he arrested more than 3000 criminals, including 50 murderers. Includes "an extended account of the capture of Musgrove and his gang, as well as other outlaws" (Six-Guns). Most of the historic photographs in this work were hitherto unpublished and taken c. 1880 by Joseph Collier, the first photographer to carry dark-room tent…
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Dave Rudabaugh, Border Ruffian
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Denver: World Press, 1961 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free end paper. viii, [2], 200pp. A few vintage photographs, diagram, bibliography. Yellow cloth lettered in red on spine and front cover. A very fine and bright copy with dust jacket (jacket spine very slightly faded). "This is the only biography to date of this outlaw companion of Billy the Kid" (Six-Guns). [Six-Guns: 2095]..
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David C. Broderick, a Political Portrait
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San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1969 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. ix, 274pp. Frontis portrait; index. Red cloth. A very fine copy in spine and edge darkened dust jacket. Well-documented biography of the California Senator who met his end in the infamous duel with Judge David S. Terry. Broderick was notably identified with the antislavery cause..
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Dawn Like Thunder, The Barbary Warsand the Birth of the US Navy
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1963 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated with several maps. Spine ends rubbed and dust jacket has light wear, else a fine copy. the story of the the first US Naval campaigns..
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The Day Richmond Died
by Hoehling, A. A. and Mary
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San Diego: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1981 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Slight flaws to front endpapers, else a very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..
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Daylight Reflections: A Pictorial Album
by Huxtable, Nils
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West Vancouver: Steamscenes, 1987 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Oblong quarto. 104pp. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Red cloth lettered in yellow. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A wonderful collection of color photographs. The Southern Pacific's Daylight was "the most beautiful train in the world" with the red, orange, black, and silver 4-8-4's and the lightweight streamliners. The Daylight ended service in 1971..
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De Grazia Moods in Gold, Silver, Precious Gems and Cookies
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Tucson: De Grazia Gallery in the Sun, 1971 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Artist's Proof Edition, limited printing. SIGNED and dated by the artist. 47pp. Numerous plates in color, black & white illustrations. Original cloth. Bookplate neatly removed from endpaper, else a fine copy with slightly worn dust jacket..
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The Dean of Steam Fire Engine Builders
by Hass, Ed
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Sunnyvale, California: Ed Hass, 1986 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Number 439 of 1000 copies (stamped on endpaper) SIGNED by the author. Quarto. 222pp. 150 photographs, a few reproductions. Index of engines. Red leatherette, gilt. A very fine copy. A well-researched biography of 19th century steam fire engine manufacturer, Chris Ahrens (1834-1919). It includes a multitude of photographs of vintage engines. The text provides a chronological history of the Ahrens Manufacturing Company which the subject founded. Also included are complete specifications and history of every steam fire engine his company built, from 1852 to 1916. This excellent reference also includes a chronological index of every company patent..
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Death of a Young Man
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1927 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Black cloth, lettered in red. Covers rubbed and lightly soiled. Cracked rear hinge. A very good copy in lightly worn dust jacket..
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December Night. A Scene From Willa Cather's Novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop."
by Cather, Willa
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933 Book. Illus. by Von Schmidt, Harold. Fine. Hardcover. First edition in this format. Illustrated with ink designs by Harold von Schmidt. Set by hand and printed on all rag paper by Pynson Printers under the direction of Elmer Adler. Thin octavo. 12pp. Original boards, title and rule blind-stamped on front cover. Previous owner's ink inscription on blank jacket flap. A very fine copy in the very elusive decorated dust jacket (chipped on lower spine, less so to upper spine and lower corners). An excerpt from "Death Comes for the Archbishop"..
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Dedications
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Berkeley: Charles G. Norris, 1936 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 100 copies printed for Charles G. Norris by Wilder & Ellen Bentley. [2], 46pp. Cloth-backed blue boards, printed paper cover label. Some darkening to extremities of covers and spine. Overall, a fine copy. Scarce. A collection of dedications (many in verse) written by Norris for her different publications. A previous owner has (very discreetly) noted that one dedication is to the author's beloved younger brother, and another addressed to "C.G.N." was to her husband, Charles G. Norris..
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Deeds of Valor: How America's Civil War Heroes Won the Congressional Medal of Honor
by Beyer, W.F. and O.F. Keydel [Editors]
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Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1992 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Originally published in 1903. Hardback boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Includes over 500 illustrations. The story of each of the recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor..
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The Deliverance
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First issue of the first edition with all first issue points. Red cloth, lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to cover extremities and light soiling to covers and spine, upper front corner jammed, lower rear corner less so, lower front corner just showing. A near fine copy..
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