(Real Photo postcards) Two Views of Syracuse, Kansas 1916 de W. W. Kidwell, Photographer - 1916

Westernlore Press, LA, 1967. HBDJ, 1967, 1st edition, minor rub DJ & small mended tear, VG/VG, Light X-Library Stamp top Edge outer pgs, but no other Markings, blank endpapers light residue. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. LONE COWBOY- My Life Story- Will James- Illustrated by Author- Charles Scribner's Sons-New York- August 1930- 1st Edition-1st Printing- Scribner colophon and "A" on copyright page- Hardcover:-8vo- VG- no dj- original publishers green cloth with gilt titles on spineand cover and rider on horse with lasso- spine is lightly sun-toned but still legible-light rubs, but square, tight and clean-- 431pp all clean, no tears or writing- profusely illustrated in B&W by author- frontis in glossy B&W of James-the letter-SEE PHOTOS- Will James was born on a Montana Trail in 1892 and orphaned at the age of four, Will followed his guardian a French Canadian trapper named Bopy, to camps scattered from the Yellowstone to the McKenzie River. " In Lone Cowboy, Will on his own after Bopy's death, drifts from one outfit to another, herding cattle, busting broncos, and getting into scrapes before he's old enough to shave or drink at the… Leer más

[1877]: Continental Stereoscopic Company. 1 Photograph print on stereo card showing adobe buildings at Ehrenburg with adobe buildings and lean to's at the Colorado River. OCLC locates that only copy at the Library of Congress. upper front corner has chip but not extending to photograph. Carl Mautz, Biographies of Western Photographers notes he worked out of Prescott and also did work in Tucson.

J. N. Graves. The seven wonders of the ancient world. Souvenir from J. N. Graves, Real Estate Broker, Henrietta, Tex. [Texas?]: [No publication information] [Circa 1890-1900] Color pictorial wraps, with string ties. Ties are missing. 14 x 22.5 cm. Color illustrations. 7 leaves, with illustrations on one side and text on the verso. Wear to corners of front cover; old tape repair to top of the rear cover. Very good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this item, with one holding for a similar item, sponsored by Nebraska City Cereal Mills (Univ. of Utah). The illustrations appear to be chromolithographs. Ad on the rear cover for 30,000 acres of choice farm lands in Clay County, Texas. Henrietta, Texas is the county seat of Clay County, twenty miles south of Wichita Falls. Henrietta was incorporated in 1881. In 1882 the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway reached Henrietta. In 1890 the town had a population of 2,100, a photographer, several saloons and hotels, restaurants, a 400-seat opera house, two banks, a… Leer más

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1917. First edition. Includes 3 poems by Wilkinson who provides a 9-page foreword describing her selection process. Also includes poems by Bret Harte, Helen Hunt Jackson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Sterling, Bayard Taylor, Edwin Markham, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joaquin Miller, Robinson Jeffers, Harriet Monroe, et al. (Refreshingly, it would appear that around 40% of the poems are by women.) 12mo green cloth boards stamped in gilt and yellow; 153 pages including index. Bright and near fine with just a touch of minor wear; in good, somewhat stained and edge-worn dust jacket with large chip from base of spine extending slightly to front and back panels but nonetheless bright and attractive. Scarce to rare in dust jacket.

A German composer and pupil of Carl Orff, "between 1927 and 1929 Egk established contact with Kurt Weill, Hans Flesch, Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator. The dramatic works that followed, for which Egk often served as his own librettist, embrace a range of genres from marionette theatre... to radio documentary." Andrew D. McCredie in Grove Music Online.

Chicago: Poole Brothers. Near Fine. 1915. Pamphlet. Clean soft pictorial cover. 8" x 9." Travel pamphlet with a center vertical fold. Illustrated with B/W photographs. Wonderful excursions by railroad or ship. What travelers say about the trip to Atlin, Dawson, Fairbanks and Nome. Ocean steamers service to Skaguay. Map of White Pass and Yukon Route and connections. River and lake steamer service to Atlin. Hotels. Alaska ; B/W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 6 pages .

Albert Dressler, San Francisco, 1930; First Edition; Copy #195 of a limited edition of 525; large 8vo, 72 pages; illustrated; green cloth; blind stamped black titles. The life and times of John Thomas Mason, who came to Sierra County in 1851 to join the Gold Rush, remained in Rabbit Creek for the next 79 years, and was still alive at the time of writing of this book. Fine, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket that has a single 3/4" closed edge tear on the back panel.

Sons of the Revolution in the State of CA, Los Angeles, 1915; First Edition; Copy #107 of a limited edition of 500; 8vo, 512 pages; frontispiece photo illustration. First publication of the California Society of the Sons of the Revolution. Contains a 36-page historical chronology of the state of California; the names of Revolutionary War soldiers and their descendants represented in the membership of the California chapter; a list of Sailors, Marines and Officers of the American Navy During the Revolutionary War; Revolutionary Soldiers of South Carolina; a list of Officers & Men Belonging to the American Continental Ship "Ariel", commanded by John Paul Jones, and more. Blue and yellow cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Very Good Plus, with previous owner name and address in neat cursive on upper rt. corner of f.f.e.p.

[Railroad][Mexico] Plumb, Eduardo Lee.
Ferrocarril Internacional.
Lithographed map. 21 x 27 cm. With promotional text in Spanish. Dated at end: México, abril de 1872. Includes map of portions of the United States and Mexico showing railroads from New York to Texas and proposed railroad route from Texas through Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and south to Mexico City.
OCLC shows 5 holdings (Newberry; Harvard; Mus. NM; SMU & UT-Arlington). A project to extend a railroad from Texas to Mexico. This is a promotional urging Mexico to approve the route which was to connect the Texas lines with Mexico, then to Presidio and thence to either the Pacific or to the Gulf of Mexico.