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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Robert L. Grandt, 1986. First edition. Oblong softcover. 224 pages with photographs and roster. A fine and bright copy. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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