Search Results: Authors starting with D from Darwin Labordo Books

Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1942. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket has edge wear and small skinning (about 1 inch in diameter) on front panel, book near fine. First edition.

University of Texas Press, 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine copy in dj. First edition.

University of Oklahoma, 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket, fragile spine is faded and quite worn on top and bottom, signed by author. First edition. Merrill's Aristocrats. Loring Campbell. Herd 639: "Rare." Six Score 27: "A classic study of ranching on the Great Plains from 1865 to 1925.His writings were pioneering works in the historiography of the range cattle industry." Howes D20. Dobie p. 101.

The Cooperative Publishing, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth, near fine copy. First edition. The author's first book, very scarce.

Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Pictorial cloth, very good copy. First edition. Guns 549. Even though he participated in the Coffeyville raid, Emmett was evidently not much of an outlaw. Still, he capitalized on the family name.

Lakeside Press, 1930. Special Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Slipcase showing some wear and bumped at the spine, book very fine. Later edition. Zamorano Eighty 26: "If not the most widely read book on California, certainly ranks extremely high on such a list. The author sailed up and down the California coast trading for hides from January, 1835, until May, 1836. He possessed not only extraordinarily keen powers of observation but a fine facility for expressing his ideas in writing, which make this volume an excellent and very readable record of his experiences. It has gone through many editions and has been translated into several foreign languages. In 1869 the author bought out an edition with added material including an account of a second visit to California twenty-four years after his first." Herd 642: "The book contains much material on the hide and tallow industry of California, which was the reason for the cattle industry of that state in its early years." Cowan p. 156. Dobie p. 101. Howes D49.… Read More

New York, Alfred Knopf, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book and dust jacket are near fine. First edition, first printing. A true modern classic with an excellent bibliography. Dee Brown in his review states: The whole story within the covers of one volume, a feat I never believed possible. A classic is what I label it. Reprinted several times, but the first is now scarce.

New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, book and jacket are near fine.

John Howell-Books, 1929. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth, very good copy. Second edition. Zamorano Eighty 27: "A thoroughly readable account of life in Pastoral California, mainly before the American conquest.Davis came to California by sea in 1831, became a successful merchant and recorded his memories of men and events in this trustworthy book. The edition of 1929 is preferable." Herd 659: "A scarce book with chapters on the cattle industry of California." Cowan p. 160. Graff 1020. Howes D136. Libros Californianos: "The second.edition is by far the best, containing a fine index, numerous illustrations, many valuable appendices, and a comprehensive introduction by Douglas S. Watson.

Crane & Co., 1912. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth, very good copy. First edition. Adams One-Fifty 45. Guns 570: "Scarce." "This book is one of the first in which the author tried to publish a correct account of the Hickok-McCanles trouble and to show 'the wide variance between the truth and fictions as told by Emerson Hough' (Story of the Outlaw, also available in this catalog, item H87)." He was also the first to claim that Wild Bill shot McCanles from behind a curtain and ambushed Woods and Gordon from an unseen shelter." Graff 1025. Howes D150 "aa".

Norman, Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma Press., 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book and dust jacket near fine. First edition.

Arthur H. Clark, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine copy. First edition. Adams One-Fifty 46. Guns 577: "A most interesting book of reminiscences, with some material on many of the outlaws of Oklahoma and Texas, telling, among other things, of the Dalton raid at Coffeyville and the Henry Brown raid on the bank at Medicine Lodge. Has much information on Billy the Kid and some on John Wesley Hardin." Herd 670. Loring Campbell. Six Score 30: "Debo's notes add clarity without detracting from Nelson's narrative." Clark and Brunet 164. A very important cattle book.

Fine Arts Press, 1947. Special Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Foreword by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur. Cloth, very fine copy. Reprint edition. Zamorano Eighty 29: "Both author and illustrator (Charles Nahl) are characteristically Californian, and few volumes have a truer flavor of the Mother Lode than this result of their combined efforts." Cowan p. 163. Howes D231.

D. Appleton-Century, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Better than very good copy in dj. First edition. Guns 590: "Another extensive work by this author touching upon, among many other subjects, vigilantes and the Johnson County War." Dobie p. 50.

Trimmer Printing, 1959. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth in repaired slipcase, overall vg. Fourth edition. The second edition was issued in 1944 and the third edition in 1946.

National Rifle Associations of America, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth, very good copy. First edition. Howes D 342: aa. Riling 1959: A standard reference work on the subject, not surpassed to date.

National Rifle Associations of America, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth, top of spine tender, overall a very good copy. Boldly signed by the author. First edition. Howes D 342: "aa." Riling 1959: "A standard reference work on the subject, not surpassed to date.

National Rifle Associations of America, 1946. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth, in original slipcase, a very good plus copy. Third edition. Howes D 342: "aa." Riling 1959: "A standard reference work on the subject, not surpassed to date.

State Publishing. Hardcover. Fine. Green cloth, fine copy. Fourth edition.

State Publishing. Hardcover. Fine. Red cloth, fine copy. Fourth edition. Adams One-Fifty 48. Guns 596: "Perhaps no book excells Dimsdale's in presenting the picture of the lawless conditions that characterized the mining camps of the Rocky Mountain country. The author was editor of the Virginia City Montana Post and a participant in the extraordinary campaign against lawlessness." Howes D345. Graff 1086. Montana One Hundred 7.