The Loving Brand Book. by Loving, C. J - 1965

Washington, D.C.: Robert Armstrong, 1853. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair. Senate Ex. Doc. 59, 32d Congress, 2nd Session. First Edition with seventy-nine plates and usual first state numbering problems: 23 Landscape plates, numbered 1-13 and 15-21 with three unnumbered plates at end; 6 Mammal plates; 5 Bird plates, with no Plate II as usual, numbered 1 and then 3-6; 21 Reptile plates with two plates marked Plate 10, Plate 12 marked Plate 11, and Plate 14 marked either Plate 18 or 13; 3 Fish plates, and 21 Plant plates with the last being Aploppus Nuttalii. 8vo, three-quarter leather by unknown binder with name S.H. Walley (presume this is U.S. Representative Samuel H. Walley from Massachusetts) stamped at bottom of spine; fair (boards loose, almost detached, and only held in place with new cords by a binder; in other words, not completely restored; joints torn; marbled paper on boards heavily rubbed and worn; edges of boards heavily worn and scraped; spine creased, scraped, and scarred; leather on… Read More

Denver: Louthan Book Company, 1904. 1st. Paperback. Fine. With illustrations. Preface by John Coble. Bound in original pictorial wraps. Adams Six-Guns 1033. Adams Herd 1066.

Omaha: Douglas Printing Company, 1902. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine stamped in black and gilt. Printed end papers. A bright and flawless copy! SixGuns 581.

12 mo. (6 x 4 inches) San Francisco: Marvin & Hitchcock, 1852. First Edition. 2 [v]-viii, 258 pages, original quarter blind tooled red roan, good condition, cloth boards, with wear to lower spine (lower left hinge on front cover split, but holding), gilt title at head of spine, publishers name in gilt at foot of spine, original cloth boards showing evidence of old moisture splash or spill, minor foxing on preliminary and last leaves; contents clean, intact and unaffected. Old library label beneath old inked inscription "Placed in Library because of California history contained in the (the last word is un-readable)" on front pastedown.

A fine unsophisticated example. The Norris catalogue refers to it as "The first text-book published in San Francisco."

An observation attributed to Cowan refers to it as "... the first educational work published in California after American rule." The last 12 pages are titled "Geography, History, and Present Condition of California."

Marvin and Hitchcock were San… Read More

[Texas Revolution] Texas Veteran Association. Twenty-Fifth Annual Re-Union Texas Veterans. Dallas, April 20 and 21. 1898. [Dallas, Texas?]: Texas Veteran Association. 1898. Color silk ribbon in form of the Texas flag. 5.75 x 20 cm. Very good.
All of these veteran reunion ribbons are scarce. The ribbon is from the 1898 25th reunion in Dallas of Texas veterans who fought in the Texas Revolutionary war witj Mexico. The result of winning the war with Mexico Texas gained its Independence and became the Republic of Texas its own country in 1836. There were not that many veterans of the war and not that many were surviving into 1898 so that makes this a pretty rare ribbon. A great display piece.

Denver: Louthan Book Company, 1904. 1st. Paperback. Fine. With illustrations. Preface by John Coble. Bound in original pictorial wraps. Adams Six-Guns 1033. Adams Herd 1066.

Omaha: Douglas Printing Company, 1902. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine stamped in black and gilt. Printed end papers. A bright and flawless copy! SixGuns 581.

New York: D. Appleton, 1854. 1st ed. . Hardcover. VG/No Jacket. 1130 pages. Travels and work connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53. Gift inscription on half-title page of each book, dated July 4, 1854. Folding lithograph frontis in each volume. Folding map in volume 1. The map has a six inch diagonal tear. Map opens to about 20 inches wide by 16 tall. Dark green or black cloth-covered boards. Title and Saguaro cactus in gilt on spine of each book. Scattered illustrations through both books, including many tissue protected lithographs on Howes B201; Raines p.22; Graff 198; BTB-12. VG/No Jacket. Clean and solid. Item #: B9647.

Rochester, New York, nd. (ca.1900): Vredenburg & Co. Oblong Quarto. 100 leaves, all illustrations (138 images). This work which is the largest early photographic editon of Graham County and includes photographs of smelters, factories, copper mining, drug stores, railroad stations, landscapes, libraries, small businesses as well as school buildings. While more than half are devoted to mining, it has many pictures of locations in Graham County which have appeared nowhere else. Two smaller editions were done by newspaper publishes with 30 to 50 pages with mostly text. Here the printing was done by the Electric City Engraving Company of Buffalo which had pioneered Illustrated with half tones by Simon Werner. As is the case with the earliest Arizona Territorial Books, the printing processes for better illustrations were either done in San Francisco or in New York. Bound in brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Inner hinges cracked but holding quite well, lacks rear free endpapers. Rare in… Read More

Shane - Jack Schaefer (Rare Western 1st Edition Early Printing 1949 Hardcover w/ DJ) Lone Gunfighter Film Adaptation
**This book has a printing/binding error between pages 152-169, where pages 89-104 were duplicated and inserted at that location. In addition, pages 153-168 were never included in this copy.**
Please note that this is an early printing given the price and lack of subsequent printings; however it is NOT a first printing given the color of the hardcover and the title page does not list a year.
Copyright 1949, published by Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston). Dust jacket in protective mylar is price clipped. Jacket shows wear along the edges and hinges, as well as a black mark/streak on the rear. Blue hardcover has a heavily bumped spine tail and nick along the rear bottom-edge. There are a handful of pages (such as pg. 1-4, 5-8, 209-212, 213-end) that have not been "cut" so it appears the book has gone unread; some of the page ends in these sections have small tears. Also, there is the… Read More