THE AMERICAN GUN - A MAGAZINE ABOUT GUNS IN HISTORY AND IN SPORT by Koller, Larry, editor - 1961

[Portland, OR: Passenger Traffic Department, Southern Pacific Lines, Irwin-Hodson Co., March 11, 1925]. 4to. Printed & bound in double-columns, center fold. [32 pp.] Numerous text illustrations, photo illustrations, double-page colour centerfold of Crater Lake National Park, maps. Colour-illustrated softcovers, beautiful Jazz Age cover art of hikers amongst the mountains & forest (slight shelfwear, very slight rubbing), VG copy. Early printing of this wonderfully illustrated promotional travel brochure for the Southern Pacific, including wonderful photo illustrations of hotels, motels, attractions, beaches, and more.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1938. First Thus. Vellum-backed marbled boards. Near Fine. (xx), 1, 21, 1 pages. First Edition Thus. Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. Vellum-backed marbled boards. Gilt spine-titling. 5 1/4" x 8". Slipcase. Limited to 350 copies printed by The University of California Press. Per the Introduction, "'The Helmet of Mambrino' well supports the claim of (Clarence) King's friends that his casual conversation often equalled the best literature of his day, for this letter to a friend was undoubtedly produced spontaneously without thought of publication." A beautifully produced small book. Neat pictorial bookplate at front pastedown; small bookseller's stamp removal scar to rear pastedown, but a Near Fine copy in a Very Good Plus (slight abrasions at opening ends) slipcase. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. [9.5x6.5in]; xxvii, 375 pp., 8 color plates illustrations by Author, appendix (1850 Report to Sec. of State by T. Butler King on California); Black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and gilt rules and illustrations on front and spine, yellow dyed top edge, other edged untrimmed; Light green dust jacket with black, white and yellow lettering on front and spine, illustration of San Francisco on front, with black floral pattern on spine, advertisements for Western Americana book series (Oscar Lewis and Robert Glass Cleland, editors) on back; Negligible shelf wear to book, light glue remains of removed bookplate on front end paper; Minor shelf wear to dust jacket with small chips to corners and edges, age darken spine and along edges, light rubbing to surfaces. [Kurutz 618, Volkmann Zamorano 80 #73]. Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was a travel author, poet and artist. His 1850 two volume book "Eldorado" is his best known work about… Read More

New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. (15) 331 (1) pp. Illustrated dust jacket, with $6.95 price. Illustrated, including maps of The Moromon Trail. Index. Purple cloth.6 1/4" x 9 1/4". One of The American Trail Series, edited by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Per the jacket blurb: "Close to the heart of Mormondom is the almost stylized memory of the Trail. For every early Saint, crossing the plains to Zion was not merely a journey, but a rite, the final devoted and enduring act that brought one into the Kingdom." A Fine copy in a Very Good Plus or better dust jacket (pencil numbering to rear cover, spine toning; edgewear, especially to spine-ends). ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

[Portland, OR & Baker, OR: The Old Oregon Trail Association; Ryder Bros., Printers and Stationers, 1927. Tall 8vo. 4 x 9.25 in. 63, [1] pp. Photo illustrations & strip maps throughout, double-page centerfold map & photos, 1 folding colour map. Photo-illustrated softcovers, cover art showing water falls above Wallowa Lake on back cover (minor creasing to couple corners), still VG copy. First edition of this uncommon automobile guide for intrepid motorists driving the route of the Old Oregon Trial from Council Bluffs on the Missouri River to Seaside, Oregon, with sidetrip to Yellowstone National Park, and then into eastern Oregon along the Columbia River finishing up on the scenic Columbia River Highway through the scenic gorge.

Augusta Eagle. Good with no dust jacket. 1929. No Edition Stated. Hardcover. Covers have light rubbing to edges and several light soil marks, pages lightly toned, owner's address stamped twice inside front cover, mild moisture wrinkling to pages but no stain; b/w photos; 90 pages .

Harrisburg, PA; (1954): Stackpole Co. First Edition. Octavo. Convened at Chicago, Illinios, 13 January 1879. xxx, 303 p. illus., port., maps (part fold.) Vital and revealing testimony of participants in the Battle of the ittle Big Horn. Battlefield map endpapers. Bound in gray cloth lettered in blue, spine lettering blue, in clipped dust jacket with some cipping to head and edge wear.

No writing or marks, very nice lightly used. folded up map included in excellent condition.

London. Thomas Hodgson. [1854]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. 16cm, The First Edition, 336p., without the series title, in quarter tan russian, black raised bands, gilt rule borders in the panels, gilt panel devices and titles, french marbled boards and endpapers, attractive heraldic bookplate, some slight wear on the board edges else very good to fine copy (ILC). ~Loeber R-32. Sadleir 3662. Sabin 69051, indicates London, 1855. ~ Stories of hunting in the Americas by Irish adventure author, hunter and naturalist, Mayne Read (1818-1883). Animals hunted and studied include bears, buffalo, cougar passenger pigeons, raccoons, muskrat, wild hogs, vicuna, squirrel, deer, moose, and wolves. "Hunters' Feast" first appeared in serial form in 1854.

Pasadena, Socio-Technical Books, 1970, hardcover, 176 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight and tightly bound, spots to top edge, previous owner's name and date to front endpaper. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, rubs, light wrinkles, slight edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. The well-regarded anthropologist, museum director, supervising archaeologist for the Fort Massac Reconstruction project in Southern Illinois, and author of The Long Walk: A History of Navajo Wars, 1846-68 takes us back to the years 1863-68, the military roundup of the Navajo Indians and the creation of Bosque Redondo near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, a forty-square mile concentration camp where the Navajo lived according to the dictates of an alien people and suffered disease, starvation, and generational trauma. Illustrated with 22 period photographs. Appended: Bibliography, Index. ISBN 9780870261008