Scenes In Glacier National Park Montana: Hand Colored Pictures -

1934. VG-, SIGNED CHECK by Zane Grey , light wear SLIGHT FADE, SIGNED CHECK by Zane Grey Drawn on Security First National Bank of Los Angeles written for $12.00 dated October 13, 1934, 10/13/34. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Unbound.

First House edition of this famous report. 1845. Complete in original binding except for the gigantic map which is available in full size color thick glossy paper professional reproduction ($25 extra if desired). Pagination: 583 pages, 22 plates, 4 maps, all blanks present. Includes fascinating pencil diagram of oil rig on back of map. Oil rig drawing titled "Sheffield Oil Company. Warren(?), Co., Pa." That pencil drawing is the only interior writing or ownership marking anywhere in the book. Condition is a mixed bag. Original half leather marbled boards show heavy wear and looks like they were professionally rehinged in the distant past. Binding is sound. Pages show moderate to heavy toning and foxing. Some plates have weird 'dot' foxing I have never seen elsewhere (see scan). Marbled endpapers. A nice well maintained copy suitable for reading and research with a cool drawing. Howes F372; Wagner-Camp 115:2; Graff 1436. House Doc. No. 166. Feel free to inquire. Please see scans of the book you will… Read More

Alaska: Pacific Coast Steamship Company , 1909. RARE advertising card for the Pacific Coast Steamhip Co. featuring a black and white photograph of three Native women, one with a child in carrier on her back, prepearing a meal over a campfire across water from a glacier. Card size 5 3/4" x 8", image size 4 1/4" x 7 1/2", with text underneath reading "AN ALASKA CHRISTMAS DINNER: Here's to good fortune for Nineteen Naught Nine ! May you always have food when the time comes to dine ! May you always find gold in your prospecting pan ! May Good health attend you ! Yours, (?)". Very Good, bottom left corner creased, small chip top edge. Native American. Gold prospecting. . Cardstock. Very Good. 5 3/4" H x 8" W.

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1983. SCARCE publisher's promotional poster, 17" w x 27 1/4" h, featuring the same stunning painting as the book's front cover. Near Fine, faint creases, 17" w x 22 3/4" h. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 17" w x 27 1/4" h.

New York: A. L. Fowle , 1900. Two volumes in original cloth, fold-out map frontis Vol. I is Near Fine, small corner creases. Books are Very Good, boards sunned, light wear at corners. 16mo, pp. i, 371; x, 395. SCARCE in commerce. . First Thus. Cloth. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

San Jose: Self Published [San Jose Notta Bros.], 1916. First Edition. Good. , limited to 300 [9.25x6.25in]; 68 pp., [2], six leaves of halftone portraits of Jayhawkers and illustrated scenes; Brown stiff paper wrappers with gilt stamped lettering on front, brown endpapers, stapled binding, covers extend beyond text block; Age wear to paper covers with creases and chips on all edges and corners, missing 1/4" bottom spine, several small stain and ink spots on covers faded and gilt lettering dulled, offset of 1920 newspaper article tipped in on the death of Stephens and prior owner ink signature on front leaf, oval stain on upper fore edge of first 12 pages, age toning of text throughout; Overall condition of this type and material quality is Very Good. [Kurutz 601, Cowan II p. 613, Graff 3972, Howell 50 1636, Adams 2136]. Lorenzo Dow Stephens (1827-1921) was part of a an Illinois company that left for California in March 1849. The company traveled to Fort Laramie, South Pass, Fort Bridger and Salt… Read More

[Montana?] [Photography]
Six Cabinet Card Photographs of Pioneers. [California?]: [No publication information] [Circa 1900-1910?] Six black and white photographs 4.5 x 6,5 in on curved cardboard mounts 5 25 x 7.25 in.
Excellent images of cowboys with a covered wagon. The images show cowboys on horse-back with a covered wagon; using poles to get the wagon up a steep trail; wagon and riders on a trail; wagon, horses and men in camp; view of a town with hills in the background and view of a farm or ranch. I was told by my seller that these images were with other images of Lakota Sioux, perhaps in Montana or Wyoming.

[Sheep Ranching] Western Photo Album. No publication information. [Circa 1890s?] Black album, stiff boards. 6 x 7 in. 21 black and white photos 3 x 5 in. Album pages detached at binding. Photos are glossy and there is glare in some of the images; not glued down. Very good.
Photos include sheep ranching and sheep dipping; wagons, including logging wagons; log cabin and horse with western saddle and rig; boating on a lake; carriages; horseman and barn; people in their Sunday best. Perhaps Utah, Colorado, Montana or the Pacific Northwest? Date is based on clothing, saddle and equipment.

[Railroads] International & Great Northern Railroad. Greater Texas and the Coast Country. Houston-Galveston District, the Winter Garden. [Galveston, Texas?]: Galveston Commercial Association. [Circa 1910). Printed wraps. 23 cm. Fourth edition. Illustrated. Maps. 24 pp. Covers separated at spine, else very good.
OCLC shows one holding (TAMU). UT-Arlington also has a copy of the Third edition. Text in double columns. "Everything good for sons of men is found in the land of the I. & G.N."--Cover. "Iron mountain route"--Cover and bottom of every other page. "The way to Texas" -- Cover and bottom of every other page. On back cover: Galveston Commercial Association, J. E. Kauffman, Secretary, Galveston, Texas. Originally meant to be folded to 23 x 11 cm. and mailed. Many great photographs.

n.p.: Myrtle Jones Longacre, 1963. Good. No DJ. Buckram cover is sunned and shows light soiling and shelf wear. Binding is split at title page. Interior is clean and without ownership marks. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. "A true account of the Jones family."