Mountain West from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Portland: Ivy Press, 1917. First Separate Edition. First printing; one of 100 copies according to Howes. Octavo (24cm); printed card wrappers with printed paper spine label; 185pp; frontispiece portrait; 2 folding maps, one inserted plate leaf. External wear, with shallow losses to spine ends and brief splits to wrappers at bound edge; internally tight with early pencil marginalia in… Saber más sobre este artículo

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960. Second Printing. Large Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth spine over mottled blue paper covered boards, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 509pp. Clean and handsome, light bumping to spine ends and a little very slight wear to extremities, a very good, strong copy in a pictoial dustjacket… Saber más sobre este artículo

Missoula: Montana Medical Association / Montana State University Press, 1962. Octavo (24cm). Red and cream cloth in red dust jacket; cartographic endpapers; [xxii],564pp; black and white illustrations. Pushed at head and tail, else clean and firm: Near Fine. Jacket rubbed with short tears at top: Very Good. [63934].

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1969. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (30cm). Brown and cream pictorial paper-covered boards; [xii],145,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Bumped at corners, else clean and sturdy: Very Good. Geological Survey Professional Paper 669. "A collection of papers honoring Powell on the 100th anniversary of his exploration of the Colorado River, 1869-1969."With… Saber más sobre este artículo

Tinmath, CO: The Columbine Club of Timnath, [c. 1925]. First Edition. 12mo. Textured cloth hardcover, titled in silver on front cover; 57pp; frontispiece illus. Tight and unworn, Near Fine; with ownership signature inside front cover ("Knoebel's"), dated 1943. A scarce privately-published account of early settlement in the region of Larimer County, Colorado, where the author's family settled… Saber más sobre este artículo

Glendo, WY: High Plains Press, 1998. First, Limited Edition. First printing. No. 201 of 424 copies, signed by the publisher on title page. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 254pp; illus. Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper. Farlow(born 1861) first settled in the Wind River region of Wyoming in 1876 and established his first ranching operation in the early 1880s.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. Thirteenth printing. Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth stamped in dull gilt; [10],489,[1]pp; list of titles at front. Bookseller's ticket of the Skylark Bookshop, Washington, DC, to rear. Mild rubbing with just a few spots of foxing, else a pleasing copy, clean, sound, and Very Good. One of the early twentieth-century Revolt Novels, offering a true-to-life portrait… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Helena, MN]: Montana Historical Society Press, 1954. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Stapled pamphlet in white paper wrappers, printed in orange; 16pp; order forms inside rear cover; black and white in-text illustrations. Upper corner slightly crumpled, spotting to fore-edge of front wrapper, else sound and clean: Very Good. Montana Heritage Series #3. [63404].

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1927. Large octavo (27cm). Light tan cloth stamped in brown, brown topstain, in pictorial dust jacket; pictorial endpapers; [xxii],210,[2]pp; inserted plates, black and white in-text illustrations. Lightly pushed at head and tail, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $5.95), light dustsoiling, especially to flap folds, else Very Good. Frontier life in Montana and Wyoming,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boulder, CO: Muriel S. Wolle, [1952]. Fifth printing. Quarto (26cm). Taupe cloth stamped in red-orange; cartographic endpapers; [xii],544pp; black and white illustrations. Signed by author on title page, also with other gift inscription. Textblock sagging slightly, boards very lightly splayed, but clean: Very Good.

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 1899. Octavo (22.5cm). Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt; 283,[1]pp; wood-engraved and halftone illustrations throughout. Pencil ownership inscription to frontispiece recto. Rubbed and slightly shaken, front hinge cracked but holding, lacking front free endpaper, else complete and Good.

Los Angeles: The Times-Mirror Press, 1923. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Pictorial cloth hardcover; 289pp. Tight, square, and unmarked, with a few specks of foxing to prelims; Very Good or better, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Western fiction, a romance set in Montana during pioneer days. Davis (b. 1861) was previously the author of Sketches of Butte (1921), a tour… Saber más sobre este artículo

Omaha: Overland Publishing Co, 1881. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (27cm). Red paper over boards, stamped in gilt and blind; plain endpapers printed with advertisements; [vi],[23]-183,[1]pp; additional advertisements at rear; folding hand-colored map (detached but present), frontispiece, extensive black and white wood engravings, with folding hand-colored map. Solid but rubbed at edges, with chips at head and tail, internally… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899. Later printing. Small octavo. Publisher's blue-green cloth, titles decoratively stamped in silver on spine and front cover; [6],243pp; illus; engraved frontispiece. Trace of external wear at board corners and spine ends; text clean, tight and unmarked. A solidly VG copy. Travelogue of three-month train journey through the American west, originally published as a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Denver: The Westerners, 1946. Popular Edition." Octavo (24cm). Blue and white paper-covered boards; [xiv],251,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Lightly rubbed, front joint tender and cracking, spine sunned, internally clean: around Very Good. Contains 12 articles on various topics, including Beadle's Dime Novels, the mustang, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, the Mecker Massacre, and "Early Cowboy Days in Wyoming." [62119].

Denver: Golden Bell Press, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Tall octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 105pp; illus. Tight, clean copy, Near Fine; in slightly rubbed and edgeworn dustwrapper, Very Good. Illustrated from original oil paintings by the author.

Chicago: Donohue Brothers, [n.d.]. Reprint. Octavo (19cm). Blue cloth series binding stamped in green and black; vi,ix-[xviii],9-306pp; frontispiece and relief illustrations. Sound, edges rubbed, internally very browned and brittle, rear hinge cracked through but holding: just Very Good. Shields was the editor of the outdoor sports magazine Recreation, where he wrote under the pseudonym Coquina. #61866.

[Denver]: University of Denver, 1952. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22.5cm). Yellow cloth titled in purple, in purple and yellow dust jacket; cartographic endpapers; 135,[1]pp; black and white plates. Gift inscription to half-title verso. Pushed at head and tai, corners lightly rubbed, mild discoloration to endpapers but otherwise clean and sound: Very Good. Jacket price-clipped, rubbed, chipped, with long… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cottonwood, ID: Idaho Corporation of Benedictine Sisters, 1978. Third printing (originally published 1947). Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xx,538pp; illus; map endpapers. Fine copy in original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped else Fine.

Chicago: Lakeside Press; R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1925. First Thus. 16mo (18cm). Black cloth stamped in gilt on front and spine, top edge gilt; plain endpapers; [xxiv],239,[1]pp; frontispiece portrait and folding map. An upright copy with gentle rubbing to spine ends, mild silverfish damage to top edge and rear board, else Very Good. Section from Pike's journal… Saber más sobre este artículo