PUBLISHING IN THE WEST: ALAN SWALLOW, SOME LETTERS AND COMMENTARIES
Santa Fe, NM: Lightning Tree, Inc., Jene Lyon, Publisher, 1974. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 80 pages. Fine in fine and bright, price-clipped dust jacket. More
Western Americana
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE CASTLEGATE, WELLINGTON AND SUNNYSIDE QUADRANGLES, CARBON COUNTY, UTAH
Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey/USGS/Government Printing Office/GPO, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 165 pages with index. All required plates and sections present. The required two folding maps in the rear pocket. From the library William T. Nightingale with his attractive bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper. Privately bound by Nightingale..... More
THE DATA OF GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 770
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office/GPO, 1959. Fifth edition. Printed wrapper. 841 pages with tables and index. Owner's signature on the title page. A very good plus copy. More
THEN CAME THE RAILROADS: THE CENTURY FROM STEAM TO DIESEL IN THE SOUTHWEST
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. The railroads furnished the ways and means for a hardy and courageous people to build and develp a vast new segment of a growing America. Adams: Six Guns, #428. 336 pages with photographs, maps, bibliography and index. Owner's small stamp..... More
THEN CAME THE RAILROADS: THE CENTURY FROM STEAM TO DIESEL IN THE SOUTHWEST
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. The railroads furnished the ways and means for a hardy and courageous people to build and develp a vast new segment of a growing America. Adams: Six Guns, #428. 336 pages with photographs, maps, bibliography and index. Small brown burn..... More
EXPLORATIORY DRILLING FOR WATER AND USE OF GROUND WATER FOR IRRIGATION IN STEPTOES VALLEY, NEVADA. WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 467
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office/GPO/U.S. Geological Survey/USGS, 1920. First edition. Printed wrappers. 70 pages with tables, charts and index. Required folded map in the rear pocket. Mild loss to the cover at the spine ends. A very good copy. More
ATLAS TO ACCOMPANY MONOGRAPH XLV ON THE VERMILION IRON-BEARING DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA
Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey/U.S.G.S., 1903. First edition. Hardcover folio. Consists of 26 sheets printed rectos only, 23 of which are full-page color maps. Bound in original brown cloth with lettering stamped in gilt. Maps show numerous railroads, most now abandoned and forgotten. Small library plate on the front..... More
THE SAGA OF PACIFIC RAILWAY & NAVIDGATION CO., PUNK ROTTEN & NASTY
Portland, OR: Corbett Press, 2001. First edition. Oblong hardcover. Number 49 of 500 numbered copies signed by Clock on the special limitation page. Foreword by Walter R. Grande. Tells in chronological order the construction of the line, and also provides interesting details about some of the towns that developed as..... More
FORT RUSSELL AND FORT LARAMIE PEACE COMMISSION IN 1867. HISTORICAL REPRINTS; SOURCES OF NORTHWEST HISTORY NO. 14
Missoula, MT: State University of Montana [no date, 1930s]. First edition. Printed wrapper. Reprinted from the Historical Section of The Frontier, a Magazine of the Northwest, Vol. X, No. 2, May, 1931. 12 pages. A fine copy. More
LETTERS OF GOLD: CALIFORNIA POSTAL HISTORY THROUGH 1869
Canton, OH: U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Recounts and illustrates the postal history of California and the historical background against which the story of the mails evolved. It begins with the Spanish period and ends with completion of the trans-continental railroad, an event which significantly changed the..... More
STAGECOACH AND TAVERN TALES OF THE OLD NORTHWEST
Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1930. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. "Tavern and coach filled an important function in the history of the growing communities that peopled the Old Northwest (Midwest) in the decades before the coming of the Civil War." 376 pages with map, photographs and illustrations. Bound..... More
NARROW GAUGE PICTORIAL: VOLUME VI, MOTIVE POWER OF THE COLORADO & SOUTHERN
Robert L. Grandt, 1986. First edition. Oblong softcover. 224 pages with photographs and roster. A fine and bright copy. More
THE COLEBROOKE SCHIST OF SOUTHWESTERN OREGON AND ITS RELATION TO THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE REGION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1339
Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey/USGS/Government Printing Office/GPO, 1972. Soft cover. 61 pages with photographs, tables, charts and references, plus folded map in the rear pocket. Bound in original gray paper covers with lettering printed in black. Stamp of geologist Richard H. Jahns on the front cover. Some light fading..... More
THE COLEBROOKE SCHIST OF SOUTHWESTERN OREGON AND ITS RELATION TO THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE REGION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1339
Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey/USGS/Government Printing Office/GPO, 1972. Soft cover. 61 pages with photographs, tables, charts and references, plus folded map in the rear pocket. Bound in original gray paper covers with lettering printed in black. Split along the spine. A very good copy. The map is fine and..... More
VICTORIAN LADY ON THE TEXAS FRONTIER, THE JOURNAL OF ANN RANEY COLEMAN
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. Hardcover. 206 pages with bibliography and index. Unbound signatures professionaly bound in maroon cloth with title lable pressed onto the spine. A fine copy. No just jacket. More
THE GOLDEN WEST IN STORY AND VERSE
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1932. Reprint. Hardcover. Early reprint of 1933. Splendid well balanced material depicting the Western scene, written by Western writers, from the early days of Indian life and customs, through the rousing and picturesque incidents of the early explorers and settlers, down to the stirring..... More
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETINS NOS. 326-328. BULLETIN 328; THE GOLD PLACERS OF PARTS OF SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA, INCLUDING THE NOME, COUNCIL, KOUGAROK, PORT CLARENCE AND GOODHOPE PRECINTS; BULLETINS 326 AND 327 LISTED IN DESCRIPTION
Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey/USGS/Government Printing Office/GPO, 1908. Hardcover. The three bulletins bound into a single volume. BULLETIN 326; THE ARKANSAS COAL FIELD, WITH REPORTS ON THE PALEONTOLOGY. BULLETIN 327; GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE IN THE MATANUSKA AND TALKEETNA BASINS, ALASKA. All the required plates and maps in each bulletin are..... More
THE R.G.S. STORY, RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN, VOLUME I; "OVER THE BRIDGES - RIDGEWAY TO TELLURIDE"
Denver, CO: Sundance Publications, Inc., 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Number 440, signed by Collman and McCoy on the half-title page. 416 pages of text, bridge diagrams, maps, magnificent photographs, many in color, and index. Small errata slip laid in. Fine in fine and clear vinyl dust protector. More
THE R.G.S. STORY, RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN, VOLUME I; "OVER THE BRIDGES - RIDGWAY TO TELLURIDE"
Denver, CO: Sundance Publications, Limited, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 416 pages of text, bridge diagrams, maps and magnificent photographs, many in color. Small errata slip laid in. Fine in fine clear vinyl dust protector. More
CALIFORNIA
New York: J.H. Colton & Co., 1855. First edition. Map. Page 52 from the 1855 edition of Colton's Atlas of the World, Volume 1. Wheat; Maps of the California Gold Region, 277. Full page map of California with inset of San Francisco, hand tinted in four pastel colors, pink, yellow..... More
SUGAR TRAINS: NARROW GAUGE RAILS OF HAWAII.
Felton, CA: Glenwood Publishers, 1973. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. From the middle of the nineteenth century until 1940 the sugar industry in Hawaii owed its very life to the quaint little railroads that laced the islands, linking the fields with the ships that carried the sugar to market. 400..... More
SANTA BARBARA RAILROAD CENTENNIAL 1887-1987
Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Renaissance Fund, Inc., 1987. First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Thirty-two pages with photographs and maps. Small owner's stamp on the title page, else a fine and bright copy. More
CHART OF THE NW COAST OF AMERICA AND NE COAST OF ASIA EXPLORED IN THE YEARS 1778 & 1779. THE UNSHADED PARTS OF THE COAST OF ASIA ARE TAKEN FROM A MS CHART RECEIVED FROM THE RUSSIANS [A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN]
London: G. Nicoll and T. Cadell, 1784. Map. Plate 36 from the atlas volume of Cook, James; A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean: Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, published by G. Nicoll and T. Cadell; London, 1784. Writing engraved by T...... More
THE CONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA
Oakland, CA;: Biobooks, 1952. First edition thus. Hardcover. A sequel to Cooke's Scenes and Adventures. Howes: C738. Graff: 869. Cowan: pg 142. 165 pages with foldout map and four full page illustrations, one of which is an early illustration of Los Angeles. Bound in original red cloth. A fine copy..... More
EOCENE ROCKS, FOSSILS, AND GEOLOGIC HISTORY, TETON RANGE, NORTHWESTERN WYOMING: PROFESSIONAL PAPER 980
Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey/USGS/Government Printing Office/GPO, 1978. Soft cover. Remnants of Eocene rocks along the modern Teton Range date the final uplift and susidence of the ancestral Teton-Targhee arch, and determine direction of Eocene drainage. 40 pages with maps, photographs, four photographic plates, bibliography and index, plus the..... More