Six Western Pioneer Photographs by Unknown photographer: with a Covered Wagon, Cowboys and Horses

New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Signed by the author. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, tan paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine, price-clipped dust jacket with one light crease to the front flap. A beautiful copy of a scarce book. The author's first book. The seventh volume in the Harper and Row Native American Publishing Program.

Albany: Printed by Hoffman and White, 1833. Third Edition, Revised. Full Leather. Very Good. 400pp; folding frontispiece and folding map of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers. Old sheep, expertly rebacked with gilt spine rules and the original red leather label; endbands rolled in period style. 8.5" x 5.25" [Howes, USiana P589. Sabin 65484. Field, Indian Bibliography 1245. Flake, Mormon Bibliography, 6755: "Derisive reference to the Book of Mormon." Decker 35:566.].

NY: J.H. Colton, 1852. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. pp: 351, (18) ads for Colton's maps, charts and books; large, engraved, folding map tipped in at front as issued. Blind-stamped purple cloth, spine tanned as usual. Upper portion of rear joint wormed; still a clean, tight copy of this desirable book. 7.5" x 5" [Howes, U.S.iana C967. Sabin 18069. Decker 38:95.].

New York: The World Publishing Co., 1971. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Brown paper-covered boards, Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Poems. The author's first book. A beautiful copy.

New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1843. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good Hardcover;/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Professorially rebound in polished half-leather to maroon cloth with new endpages. 12mo; 7.75 inches tall; 1 p. l., (i) vi-xxxv, (1) 37-311 p. 3 other plates included in pagination. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning with some foxing. A handsome book. First Edition, First Printing.. A treatise on the Asiatic origin of the North American Indian, with comparisons of physiognomy, language, religion, dress, rites.. [From the title page] With a Faithful Description of their Manners and Customs, both Civil and Military, Their Religions, Languages, Dress, and Ornaments. To which is prefixed a brief view of the creation of the world, the situation of the garden of Eden, the Antediluvians, the foundation of Nations by the posterity of Noah, the progenitors of the N. Americans and the discovery of the New World by Columbus. Concluding with a… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine copy but for lightly bumped spine extremities, and darkened paste downs, ( as is common to this title) The jacket is quite yellowed, but has only light traces of wear to extremities. " A " present. No chips...

Columbus: Gilmore & Brush, 1870. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, heavily blind-embossed. vi, 626pp, (6pp). Very good. Newly, expertly rebacked in black cloth with gilt lettering; original front and rear boards slightly edgeworn; lacks five leaves (70a-b, 88a-b, 247-48, 281-82, 329-30), but quality facsimiles of those leaves on appropriate vintage paper have been expertly and archivally tipped in. Tight and attractive later printing.

(Denver: Fred and Jo Mazzulla, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Full red leather, gilt, brass coin inlaid. 56pp. Numerous illustrations, 4 full-page color illustrations. Near fine. A tight and superb first edition -- the deluxe "Open Hearted Edition / Limited To Twelve Copies" (so giltstamped on front board) and boldly signed by both authors on the front flyleaf in (what else?) bright red ballpoint. The four color plates of Charles M. Russell watercolors are titled "Just a Little Sunshine," "Just a Little Rain," "Just a Little Pleasure" and "Just a Little Pain." Inlaid into the front board is a 1 3/4" diameter "brass check," an actual parlor house token whose text reads "Silver Dollar Hotel / Denver, Colo." around the rim and in the center "Good / for One / Screw / Madame / Ruth Campbell / Prop." Another limited edition of this title numbers 30 copies.

Boston: J.G. Cupples Co. Publishers, 1890. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Half calf with raised bands and gilt spine lettering and glazed marbled paper over bevel-edged boards. xiii, 485pp, (3pp), (4pp ads). All edges gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations, marbled endpapers. Very good. Inner front hinge a tad delicate but expertly, archivally strengthened, thus tight. First edition -- second volume (only) of this scarce standard work. Other than the reinforced delicate front inner hinge, this is an exceptionally handsome example in custom quarter leather, with a text block clean and bright. Only volume two, alas, but a drop-dead-gorgeous example. NEW HOWES L 79. SIX-GUNS 606.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in a dust jacket with minor wear, else fine. The jacket is much more attractive than usual for this book. The scarcest of Welch's novels, especially in nice condition.