Search Results: Missouri from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Cape Girardeau: SE Missouri State Normal School, 1900. Soft cover. Very Good+. Banquet card printed on card stock, folded 3 1/2" x 3 1/2". The banquet of Southeast Missouri State Normal school took place at the St. Charles Hotel in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Inside the menu is printed. The printer was Cross Printing Co., Job Printers. The school was opened in 1873, apparently changed names three times and became a university in 1973. Split at the fold and joined only for about 1 1/2" inches. Can be easily repaired with appropriate archival material. Triangle "burn" upper right corner facing side. Nice little period piece.

NY: Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 313pp. Illus. Sources. Index. Somewhat of a classic in the James Gang field. Some erasure abrasion on ffep & also a short "v" tear on same; Christmas sticker on lower rear paste down. Thus, vg in vg dj.

NY: Duell, Sloan Pearce, 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Fair. 2nd printing. Cloth. 313pp. Index. Pencil fos/gift on ffep. Laid into this copy is a short, but wonderful T.L.S. (typed letter signed) by Croy on a small-sized printed letterhead, the Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth (England). It has his corrections in ink, but reads: "April 23rd - Friend: I'm going to pull down, just as Jesse would have done, on the person who said the book was unobtainable. I'm telling the publishers to write you. I've (sic) extremely thankful the book has done so well. I was afraid a book about an outlaw would not go, but it has. Yours till General MacArthur Loves Truman. H. C." Also laid in is a small news clipping of the death of 109 year old James Russell Davis, who testified that as a member of the James gang he could identify J. Frank Dalton as Jesse James. Croy grew up close by the James family. "It seems to me I have always known the James Story." He interviewed many interesting people for this book. Fine copy in dj… Read More

St. Louis: N. D. Thompson, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Good. 1st printing. Gilt and blindstamped 8vo cloth. 383pp. Illus. Verso of last leaf advertises, with a portrait, the Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, The Scout, etc. also published by Thompson. This important book is a good copy that has been professionally rebacked with most of the original spine. Corners worn and exposed, but holding. The boards are sound with some soiling and some white specks/spots on the back. New endpapers front and back similar in color tone to the originals. The title page at the upper gutter has a 1 1/2" repaired split. Very, very scarce now in this edition. Howes D6, 6-guns 538, cf 150 #43 & Rader 1020.

Columbia: U of Missouri Studies, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 153pp. Bibliography. Appendices. Index. Map showing "Early Railroads in Southeast Missouri." Fine, not dj as issued. Laid in is printed long bookmark from Jefferson National Expansion book store from which your bookseller purchased this book many years ago.

St. Louis: Missouri Hist Museum, 2011. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing. Trade pictorial wraps. 262pp. Illus. Sources. Index. Lawlessness & the law in Jefferson County, Missouri. Fine.

Kansas City: Burton, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 207pp. Owner's ink name/address stamp (3) on endpapers. At least part fiction it appears, nevertheless poignant stories by one of Missouri's most noted historians. Trace of wear to extremities; fine in scarce dj with chip on bottom of front panel.

Columbia: E. W. Stephens, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-. Gilt-stamped cloth. 608pp. Illus. Abundant maps (folding + partial page county maps). Index. Presentation on front paste down from Roy D. Williams to Thos Evans. Additionally, the bottom one-half of the paste down has a description of the two family's relationship. It appears that Roy Williams ("lawyer of Boonville, MO) was the brother of the editor. A son or daughter of Evans appears to have written this description. Judge William Williams, father of the editor, married Jessie Evans. When you buy it you can figure it out. Also, laid in is a printed one-half sheet on Missouri Commission / Louisiana Purchase Exposition letterhead. It states that this was a complimentary copy from Editor Williams, courtesy of the World's Fair Commission. List of Commissioners is printed. A well worn (especially corners), but tight copy. Cracking to back hinge, but binding is tight. No dj, probably as issued. Rare & unusual association copy.

Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, 1969, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Pictorial cloth. 218pp. Lengthy bibliography. Index. A scholarly treatment. Fine in dj.