BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

Chadron, NB: Museum Association of the Western Frontier, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto; x, [ii], 318 pages, white boards; xmas presentation on recto of free endpaper Some unforgettable adventures in the untamed West, and dealing with the native tribes. "Larpenteur is one of our most important sources of information [re] the fur trade of the Upper Missouri… Read more about this item

Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, ( 1988 ). First edition. Paperback. Fine. photographs. 8vo, 64 pages, white wrappers, upper right corner gently bumped. Warrren's life as based on interviews with him. [ Not in Mattes]. Felix worked as a gyuide for Gen. O. O. Howard. He was a driver for the Walla Walla Stage Line. He owned several… Read more about this item

Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, 1899 . New edition. Hardcover. Good. some plates by C. S. Littlejohn. 12mo, 471pp. plus Section on Teaching The Deaf To Speak, plus publisher's ads; extra extra-silver stamping on top cover and spine, extremities worn, front pastedown floral endpaper scuffed (?); inch tear in bottom margin to page 20. "A cowboy autobiography preceded only… Read more about this item

Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1978. Facsimile edition. Duodecimo. Fine/issued without. engravings, map endpapers. 12mo, 426 pages, original red buckram Reprint of the 1847 edition, with a new Foreword by Edward J. Kowrach. [ See Graff 3829; Wagner-Camp-Becker 141:1; Field 1424; Howes D286; Smith 9556]. Engravings, map endpapers.

Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clarke Company, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. plates, map. 8vo, 401pp., red cloth; cream dj; unread American Trails Series X. Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. "Diary exceptional on its own account for the thoroughness of overland coverage, penetrating observations of human character and trail geography, and a felicitous literary style. It… Read more about this item

[ Paris, FR ]: Revillon, ( 1923 ). First edition. Hardcover. Good. sketches. Quarto, 121 pages, embossed brown cloth, beginning to separate at p.46-47., edgeworn Bicentennial history of the Revillon Freres fur company, active throughout Canada. Extensively illustrated.

St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1965. Second printing. Hardcover. Good/good. 8vo, 296 pages, Introduction by Grace Lee Nute, Foreword by Theodore C. Blegen: "Much has happened in the domain of fur-trade history since the narrative and diaries comprising this book were originally published in 1933."

Washington DC: Gales and Seaton, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 693 pages, publisher's brown embossed cloth, leaf 503/4 minor loss of paper and half of the final line of text at bottome of page 504, upper right corner dampstained for first quarter of pages, foxed. [ Howes F370; Streeter 3131; Wagner-Camp IV: 115:1;… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. photos. 8vo, 441 pages, black cloth; tough of waterstain at bottom corner of the lower dj flap. McCracken was an writer and art expert who became the Director of the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum. When he started he was a youth looking for adventure, inspired by Jack… Read more about this item

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, ( 1922 ). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 8vo; xvii, 381 pages, cloth; x-library with pocket on front map endpapers; dj chipped W. D. Boyce, was a publisher, and the founder of the Boy Scouts of America. Boyce sponsored several exploring expeditions, but this is his account of his own exploration… Read more about this item

Hartford, CT: Mutual Publishing, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, modern green cloth A later issue of the first edition, with a different title-page but printed from the same stereotype plates as the first edition, which was published in Cincinnati in 1871. [ Howes K62 ]. . Mrs. Kelly was captured by Ogalala Sioux in… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, boards.

New York: Viking Press, 1942. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 128 pages, beige cloth. Uncommon. Zweig examines why the continents are named America, and not Columbia. It involves the publisher, Martin Waldesmuller. With 12 pages of facsimiles of the period documents.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vos, blue cloth, x-library with rubber stamp on title-pages, call numbers on spines, otherwise very good, t.e.g. West Pointer Stevens fought in the War with Mexico, ran the U. S. Coastal Survey, was appointed territorial governor of Washington & Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory, was elected to the… Read more about this item

Crown , 1972. Family Bookshelf edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 209 pages, cloth, inked name on pastedown. Widow Frederickson and two children lived on the frontier near Vanderhoof, British Columbia. This is her account of their struggle to survive with and despite the wild animals, through all hardships and dangers, on a pioneer farm in the Thirties.… Read more about this item

Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1895. First edition. printed wrappers. Good. Octavo, pp. 92-200, untrimmed, top cover detaching Eighteen plates of facsimiles of letters by Columbus which had been exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition. Issued as the second publication of the Field Columbian Museum, being Vol. 1, no.2, by the Museum, and edited by the Honorary Curator… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner's, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 maps in pockets, woodcuts. Octavos, half morocco bindings, marbled boards, all edges gilt, extremities rubbed. Stanley, who found Livingstone, and traversed Lake Victoria Nyanza, and relieved Emin Pasha, was knighted by Queen Victoria. 3 maps in pockets, woodcuts

Chicago: Willett, Clark & Co., (1932). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. plates, maps. Octavo, 365pp., brown cloth Actually an expanded version of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard's MEMOIRS, as written by his nephew. Hubbard was the heart & soul of Chicago in the 19th century. Signed by Hamilton on the half-title page.

Chicago & London: Open Court Publishing, 1900. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavos; xv, 326; x, 342, [v] pages, black cloth with pictorial designs in yellow. spines a bit scuffed Huc was a Vincentian missionary to Beijing, and later Hei Shui (beyond the Great Wall). Then he travelled to Tibet and opened a church at Lhasa. … Read more about this item

London: Hakluyt Society, 1925. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. folding map in rear pocket, 3 plates. Octavo; cxi, 250 pages, blue cloth, untrimmed, unopened, head of spine frayed. With, Samuel Patterson's Narrative of the Wreck of the "Eliza" in 1808, Journal of the Missionaries put ashore from the "Hibernia" on an islet in the Fiji Group in… Read more about this item