History from Old Algonquin Books

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Forty talks/speeches/lectures by Van Loon on the radio from May to October 1935 307 pages, Blue book has light rubbing on bottom board edges. Dust jacket, with $2 price on flap, is somewhat faded on spine and has small corner chips and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Childs and Paterson, 1856. Hardcover. Good. Two volume set in half leather and marbled boards. Marbled endpapers and all edges. Illustrations with engravings from the author's sketches. Frontis portrait in volume 1 of Kane who led this final, and also unsuccessful, expedition. Frontis portrait of Henry Grinnell in volume 2 Tissue guards… Read more about this item

Mt Hope, Washington: Centennial Committee, 1979, 1983, 1987. Loose_leaf. Fine. History of the farming town & community south of Spokane. Book is complete in a loose-leaf binder. No date on the first section of approximately 100 page. The second section (1983) is a little shorter, and then a longer third section (1987). … Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. Second printing. Near fine/near fine. Large 618 page book covers the culture, arts and religion of the Plains Indians. Maroon cloth boards. Full plate color illustrations and numerous b/w illustrations. Half-inch ink mark on bottom page edges and small spot on top of 6 pages, otherwise fine. Unclipped dust jacket… Read more about this item

Beaufort: Beaufort Book Shop, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Fourth printing. The homes and families of Beaufort, S.C, and the barrier islands. Photos by Eugene B. Sloan. 156 pages. Book in brown cloth boards is fine, Price clipped dust jacket has light edgewear and small corner chips.

Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1992. First paperback edition. Paperback. VG+. Trade paperback with small crease on corner of one page. 303 pages, index. Small rub and crease on front wraps.

Gettysburg: Blochers, 1922. People's Pictorial Edition. Paperback. Good. Softcover, 166 pages, pictorial wraps. Fold-out map, photos. Contributions by Union and Confederate officers, condensed for popular reading. Contains complete roster of the two armies. Wraps are torn at top and bottom of spine with small chip at bottom of spine and on bbottom corners. … Read more about this item

London, Paris, New York: Goupil & Co., 1903. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Beautiful limited edition, #15 of 250 on Japanese paper with series of plates from contemporary works of art. Full black leather boards, with red leather and embossed gold decoration on front and spine, raised bands, gold title on spine, top edges gilt. … Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Houghton Mifflin edition. Three volumes in dark blue cloth binding with gold stamped lines at top and bottom of boards & spine, gold lettering on spine, and top edges gilt. Welles was Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson. Old private library bookplate on front… Read more about this item

New York: Modern Library, 1949. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. ML 267.1. 1950s reprint of the author's 1846 journey. 366 pages including index. Gray boards with gold titles on green block. Brown dust jacket is price clipped and shows 405 ML titles inside jacket. Some rubbing of the finish and folds.… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Third edition revised. Seventh printing 1969. 1511-pages. Fine in unclipped orange dust jacket with light edgewear.

New York: Crowell, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. First printing. A very sad part of Mormon history: The 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre of 120 immigrants passing through Southern Utah and other earlier crimes and killings including Capt. John Gunnison and his U.S. gov't surveying party. Dust jacket, with price intact, has light… Read more about this item

Caldwell, Id: Caxton Printers, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. The story of David Wood who came to Colorado in 1876 and established the David Wood Transportation Lines whose freight wagons were instrumental in opening up the western slope of the Great Divide. 337 pages, index, photos. Fine orange cloth-covered boards. Dust jacket, with $9.95… Read more about this item

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. 286 pages, index, illustrations. Brown cloth boards and wrap around pictorial dust jacket. Sgned & Inscribed on half-title page by author 15 Feb '91. Book is fine except for a small light yellow stain on front free endpaper.

New York: Putnam, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very good. The life of Baby Doe from Wisconsin childhood to Colorado where she became the famous wife of silver magnate Horace Tabor and after his death was left penniless. Bright orange dust jacket has price intact on flap and has a slightly faded spine and light wear at… Read more about this item

Clarendon, Tx: Clarendon Press, 1939. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/near fine. The free grass era of the Texas Panhandle: the buffalo, the Comanche, and the hunters to the cowboys & cattlemen. 244 pages. Illustrations by H.D. Bugbee. Book has slight wear on bottom edges and a little tanning on endpapers and at bottom of… Read more about this item

Denver: Sage Books, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Stories of some of the famous and infamous who thronged Denver in the years 1858 to 1861 when it was two small frontier villages on Cherry Creek and the South Platte River to the wild times of thousands of fortune seekers. 281 pages, index, illustrations, map endpapers. … Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 448 pages, index, bibliography, photos, maps. Review copy with PR sheets laid in. Dust jacket background is sunned, otherwise fine. Price intact on jacket flap. First printing.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Pr, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Stated first edition. No price on dust jacket, but not clipped. The rapid changes in Colorado from newly named frontier territory in 1861 to 1865, as taken from original sources. 268 pages, index, photos. Small pencil erasure on front free endpaper.

New York: Harpercollins, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing. Heavy book at 791 pages. Index, bibliography, illustrations, map endpapers. Fine in fine dust jacket with price $35 on flap.