New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. An excellent biography of a great Native American hero, somewhat uncommon these days. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Red paper boards with an orange cloth spine. Very mildly bumped. Clean text; 446 pages, indexed. Spine is faded, but gilt lettering is still bright. Lacking the dustjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. View More...
New York: Hurst & Co., Publishers, 1885. [Title Page continues] "...Opening, Through Yawning Chasms and Over Perilous Peaks, The Great Pathway to the Pacific." Hurst & Company started up in 1871 and produced reprinted popular editions until 1917 most, if not all, designated within a Series, Library, or "Best Value." They featured a high-quality decorative binding combined with low-quality pulp paper textblocks. This is a Near Fine copy of an early printing from the "Arlington Edition" with a copyright date of 1885. Lovely decorative brown cloth binding, stamped in black on the front and spin... View More...
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1951. This is a "semi-fictional" biography of Dr. Carlos Montezuma ("Wassaja" in his native tongue). an Apache boy sold by the Pima to an Anglo who raised him. His outstanding mind led Wassaja to become a prominent physician and an important Native American activist. With the rise of the various Native American rights movements, these early heroes are being rediscovered. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition, a typical lovely production by the University of New Mexico Press. Gray cloth binding with red lettering on the front cover and spine. Clean text... View More...
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1949. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the Second Printing of the First Edition. Small quarto. Red cloth binding with a blindstamped stagecoach in blue and gilt on the front board. Clean and fresh text; 320 pages, indexed. Illustrated with numerous period photographs. The spine is slightly faded, as is a band across the top of the front board (approximately 3/4", less noticeable than it sounds. No dustjacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Second Printing.. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. View More...
New York: J.H. Sears & Company, 1929. Estelline Bennet was the daughter of the federal judge who brought law-and-order to the rough mining community; she provides an important memoir of her girlhood surrounded by the characters who are now part of our American mythology: Wild Bill, Calamity Jane, et.al. Her narrative has served fiction writers handsomely, since they did not have far to go for inventiveness. This is a Near Fine copy of the Second Printing of the First Edition. Bright orange cloth binding with black lettering; the front cover decoration is a sillouet of a stage coach. Clean text... View More...
Cincinnati: United States Book and Bible Co., 1879. Burdett (b.1815) wrote popular history and juvenile works. His biography of Kit falls somewhere between the two. First published in 1862, this is a Very Good (Plus) copy of what may be, according to the Preface, a revised edition. The spine has a different publisher (Potter) than the Title Page; Quercus proposes that Potter licensed the publication to the Cincinnati publisher. But on to the story: the Title Page states: "Comprising Wild and Romantic Exploits as a Hunter and Trapper in the Rocky Mountains; Thrilling Adventures and Hair-Breadt... View More...
Garden City: Garden City Press Limited, 1926. This study of the West's most famous criminal has been republished many times.This is a Near Fine copy of the Reprint, part of "The Star Series" issued in the same year as the First Edition. Brown cloth binding with orange lettering. Clean text; 322 pages. Illustrated endpapers in brown sepia and orange. Lacking a dustjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint.. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. View More...
Austin: Eakin Press, 1991. Cherokee Bill and other sundry killers of the Indian Territory, a great read! This is a Fine copy of the Second Printing of the First Edition. Maroon cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Absolutely clean and fresh text; 304 pages, indexed. The dustjacket is Fine and unclipped; in a plastic protector. Size: 64mo - up to 3" tall. Later Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Dust jacket present. View More...
Chicago: The Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1935. Carson, the companion of Jim Bridger and scout for John Fremont, was famous in his lifetime due to the dime novels that made him into a super-hero. His actual memoirs were found and published in 1926, to little notice. Here they are given their due. The Lakeside Press was the fine printing arm of R.R. Donnelley, which had a more commercial side. This series of neglected titles began in 1903. These classics were not sold; they were gifted at Christmastime. Evidently no production records were kept, so the number of copies printed is ... View More...
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1845. One of the most significant works of American history and art. First published in 1841.This is a disbound copy of Volume One only (of the original two) of the Fifth Edition.Red cloth decorative binding, decoratively stamped on the covers, featuring a Plains Indiam on his rearing horse. Clean text; 312 pages. Leaves and signatures are loose but all seem to be present. [n.b.: Quercus does not warrant this, due to difficulty of doing the collation.] Both covers are loose but present (rubbed at margins); spine is missing. Please note the condition issues; Quercus must ... View More...
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1928. "Long Lance" was born Sylvester Clark Long (1890-1932) and worked as a journalist, actor, and advocate for Native American rights. During his life he claimed native ancestry through several different tribes, including the Cherokee and Blackfoot. Because his story changed often, he became to be considered a sort of fraud, but the real story may be more complicated than that judgement allowed. Whatever the truth, his biography here is a delightful read and was very popular. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition. Brick red cloth bindin... View More...
New York: Paull-Pioneer Music Corporation, 1932. Song literature of the American western experience: "Besides Actual Cowboy Songs, the Book Includes Numbers on Other Phases of Western Life and Also a General Section Containing Mountain Tunes and Modern Popular Songs on Cowboy Subjects." Chord diagrams for banjo, guitar, and ukelele. Very Good condition. 96 pages, softbound. Spine has small split, but holding firm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. View More...
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1926. The author worked as Agent in the Navajo Nation. This is a Very Good Plus to Near Fine copy of the Second Impression (February 1926) of the First Edition (September 1925). Beautiful decorative binding: black cloth with yellow lettering; the front cover features a Pueblo scene in Turquoise, black, and yellow. Clean Text: 364 pages, with a folding map in the rear. Many illustrations. There are remains from removal of a bookplate on the front paste-down, else very close to a Fine copy. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" ... View More...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Published nine years after her husband's death at the battle of the Greasy Grass. Libby Custer was a strong advocate for her deceased husband, but her works are also a goldmine of information on daily military life in the Dakota Territory. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition. Tan decorative cloth binding. The front cover features a gilt sunrise over the Black Hills; gilt titling with a bugle and musical score. Titling on the spine is also gilt. Clean text; 312 pages, with Appendix. Frontis portrait; penciled previous-owner signature on the FF... View More...
New York: Harper & Bros, 1892. R.H. Davis was one of the most popular journalists of his era; here he presents an account of the West, as it was just to become iconic in the American conscience, as seen by train travel. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition. Bright blue cloth binding with silver decoration on the front cover and lettering on the spine. Clean text; 243 pages. Over 50 illustrations: photos and drawings (including several by Frederick Remington). Light soiling, mild rubbing at the margins. A solid copy, and still a great read today. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall... View More...
San Francisco: Albert Dressler, 1927. Albert Dressler (1887-1960), a cartoonist and California historian, wrote and self-published this sweet history of San Francisco's favorite looney. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition, LIMITED to 550 copies, with 50 reserved for private distribution. A Very Good copy; red cloth binding with black lettering; binding is firm but has moderate soiling. The text is clean and fresh; 31 pages, with many charming illustrations. Quercus speculates that this is one of the reserved copies as it has been SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the FFEP to Ever... View More...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1960. "From this account few people emerge with any dignity and stature: only the heroic and impressive Geronimo." This is a Fine copy of the First Edition. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering. Endpapers illustrated with maps of the campaign areas. Clean text; 245 pages, indexed. The dustjacket has been clipped. Shows some minor wear; perhaps somewhat tanned. In a plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company A beautiful, large book publ;ished as a companion to the PBS television series. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition. Brick-red cloth binding with gilt lettering. Clean text; 458 pages, indexed. Numerous attractive illustrations. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Hollywood: Asgard House, 1971. Memoirs of an early settler in New Mexico - rancher, sportsman, taxidermist! A somewhat scarce title. This is copy #851 of the First Edition, limited to 1000 copies, SIGNED by the author and the limitation page. Binding is leatherette with gilt lettering. Front panel has a tipped-in illustration that is replicated on the DJ. Lightly bumped, clean textblock, light soil to the edges, slight lean. DJ is unclipped, some wrinkles on the head of the spine. Rear panel has a chip about 1/2" by 2". In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed ... View More...
New York & Toronto: Rinehart & Company, 1954. One of the great feats of American western history scholarship; Horgan won both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft for this work. These are Fine copies of the First Trade Edition, lacking the dustwrappers. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering. Clean text; 447 pages, with appendix; and 1020 pages, indexed. Volume One is titled "Indians and Spain," Volume Two is "Mexico and the United States." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. First Edition. View More...
