CRYIN' FOR DAYLIGHT. by O'Connor, Louise S - 1989: A Ranching Culture in the Texas Coastal Bend.

Chicago / Los Angeles: Lakeside Press / Robert Glass Cleland, 1940. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Folding Map. 120 Pp. Brown Cloth, Morocco Spine Label, Gilt. Inscribed "To Fred And Faith With Affectionate Greetings From Muriel And Rob. As Of December 25, 1939", Although The Book Was Nominally Published In 1940.

Washington: U. S. Department of Agriculture / Government Printing Office, 1920. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Very Good. Maps, Photographs. 87 Pp + Very, Very Large Multi-Fold Color Map In Rear. Tan Wrappers Printed In Black, No Names Or Marks.

Santa Ana: Fine Arts Press, 1936. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. (V), 40 Pp. Brown Boards Printed In Black. Scarce Account Of The Litigation And Related Historical Matters Regarding The Rancho Santa Margarita, Now A Development Worth In The Tens Of Billions Of Dollars. Light Wear, Paper Covering The Boards Intact, But Dampstaining In 3/4" Deep Area Around Spine On Both Covers, With 1" Depth At Lower Corner Of Boards And About 1/4" Depth Across Bottom Of Boards.

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

Tan on boards with red and orange and black front and spine with picture of Mexican Ranger. some little mwear.

Halls, Mo.: G. A. Warnica. Very Good+. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Continued Title : (Whose Acts of fearlessness and Chivalry Kept the Frontier Trails Afire with Excitement, and whose Robberies and other Depredations in the Platte Purchase and Elsewhere, have been a Most Frequent Discussion to this day, all of which Transpired During and Just After The Civil War. ) Bound in clean red cloth, gilt title on front cover with a double ruled border. Texts Interior is tight, clean & intact. B/W photograph illustrations. Decorated endpaper. The life of Polk Wells is exceptionally full of the frontier life of the West. Written by himself while an inmate in the Fort Madison Penitentiary, Iowa. Unusual inscription to A H Greenly (the noted Michigan Historian) on front endpaper dated Oct. 28, 1942 " Presented to A. H. Greenly - as a monument to the folly of .........Wright Howes". Wright Howes (of antiquarian americana fame) had derided this book as the "feeble… Read More

323 pp. Introduced and edited by Garrick A. Bailey

N.A. Kovach. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover first edition copy in very good condition, expected age toning and light foxing to textblock and age toning to cloth at top edge. No. 25/25 limited edition copies offered for sale. Signed by Lyle H. Wright (who wrote introduction), John B. Goodman (Illustrator) and Nicholas Kovac (Publisher). DJ in good plus condition with mild age toning and small chip at spine tail, now in protective mylar cover. . Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 1946.

Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A., published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers 1912. First Edition. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Douglas Duer, illustrator. 335 pp. plus 4 pages of advertisements at back. Text is clean and unmarked but tanned, typical of the paper used in 1912. Light foxing on front free endpapers and title page. Previous owner's attribution stamped on front pastedown. A Western novel about a Mormon woman defending her ranch and the period conflicts between Mormons and Gentiles near the the southern Utah border as written by a classic American writer.

Cincinnati, OH,: Henry Howe, 1852. First edition, 1852 issue - "Twenty-Second Thousand." Volume 1 & 2 bound together. Published Cincinnati, OH: Henry Howe, 1852. 8vo., 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", Vol 1: 190pp.; Vol 2: 250pp. illustrated with numerous engravings, color tinted frontis. Full tooled leather, speckled edges. "Historical Collections of the Great West: Containing Narratives of the Most Important and Interesting Events in Western History-Remarkable Individual Adventures-Sketches of Frontier Life -Descriptions of Natural Curiosities: To Which is Appended Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota, Utah and California." Leather backstrip missing, lower half of frontis missing for volume one, stain to the lower corner of page block for the first 50 pages of volume one, with a small hole to the first 20. Pages clean and bright, very minimal foxing. Good. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.