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New York: Hastings House, 1961 First edition. Signed by the author/illustrator on the title page. Introduction by Ramon F. Adams. 184pp. Illustrated throughout by the author. Bibliography and index. Publisher's brown cloth. Previous owner's ink name on inner cover, else a very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (very minor chipping to head of spine). An excellent account of how America moved, before the automobile. A fairly thorough history of the accoutrements of overland wagon travel. Text and numerous illustrations showing the wagons they used: Conestoga, Concord, Buckboards, Surreys, Borax wagons, Escort wagons, Army wagons, Ox Carts, etc., and the horses, mules, and oxen used, what wagons hauled, how the horses and mules were packed, saddles and bridles used, etc. All profusely illustrated by Nick Eggenhofer. This book is quite scarce and sought after, especially in this nice condition and with the signature..
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Wagons, Mules And Men: How the Frontier Moved West
by Eggenhofer, Nick
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Wah'Kon-Tah. The Osage and the White Man's Road
by Mathews, John Joseph
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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932 First edition. With illustrations by May Todd Aaron, map endpapers. Printed orange cloth. Light wear to spine-ends, lower corners ljust showing, else a fine copy. Excellent history of the Osage Indians of Oaklahoma.. Illus. by Aaron, May Todd.
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Wake-Robin
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New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871 First edition, first issue binding (binding A). Burroughs' first regularly published book after a self-published essay on Whitman (1867). Small octavo (6¾x4½ inches). Pp. iv, 231. Title printed in black and red. Publisher's green beveled cloth decoratively stamped in black and gold, yellow coated ends. Original owner's name and date in pencil on front free endpaper. Bookplate on inner cover. Small repaired nick to fore-edge of front board, but a fine, clean and bright copy. Housed in chemise and matching cloth slipcase, leather label. An exceptional copy, bright and clean. Signed on the front free endpaper in pencil by the original owner, "Edward Tompkins, Oakland, July 24, 1871." This is a very early copy based on the penciled date as BAL states this title was listed May 15, 1871. [BAL: 2135]..
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Walker's R. R. Routes - 1853
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Glendale, California: La Siesta Press, 1965 First edition, thus. One of 1000 copies. 64pp. Illustrations, 3 text maps, map endpapers; bibliography and index. Rust cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Captain Joseph Reddeford Walker was a mountain man, fur trader, and a guide for Frémont. In 1853 he appeared before the California Senate Committee on Public Lands to tell of his plan for a railroad across the Sierra. This work reproduces in its entirety the report made by Joseph Reddeford Walker suggesting a route for a railroad from San Francisco across the Southern Sierra. The original government printing is now rare..
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Wallpaper: Its History, Design and Use
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New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1938 Reprint. Illustrated throughout with numerous black & white photos. Light rubbing to spine and minor wear to lower corners, else a fine copy. Wallpaper and it's relation to interior design..
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen. Reflections at Sixty and Beyond.
by McMurtry, Larry
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999 2nd printing. 204pp. Illustrated with photographs, photographic endpapers. Two-tone dark blue and tan boards, spine lettered in gold. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. An autobiography that gives us a glimpse of McMurtry's thoughts on writing, small town life, his grandparents and parents, his upbringing, reading, book collecting, the decline of the cowboy, and more..
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen. Reflections at Sixty and Beyond.
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999 First edition. 204pp. Illustrated with photographs, photographic endpapers. Two-tone dark blue and tan boards, spine lettered in gold. Remainder mark to bottom edge of text block, else a very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. An autobiography that gives us a glimpse of McMurtry's thoughts on writing, small town life, his grandparents and parents, his upbringing, reading, book collecting, the decline of the cowboy, and more..
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Walthers HO Railroad Catalog & Craft Train Reference Manual. 1981 edition.
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Milwaukee: William E. Walthers, Inc., 1981 Quarto. 480pp. Illustrated with thousands of items, detailed drawings, photographs (some in color), etc. Index. Stiff pictorial wrappers A fine copy. 1981 edition of this very comprehensive catalog of railroad material for HO model trains. Covers manufacturers, passenger cars, traction, locomotives, freight cars, scenery items, structures, figures, tools, paint, and on, and on. Also includes full color background scenes..
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Walthers HO Railroad Catalog & Craft Train Reference Manual. 1979 edition.
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Milwaukee: William E. Walthers, Inc., 1979 Quarto. 384pp. Illustrated with thousands of items, detailed drawings, photographs (some in color), etc. Index. Stiff pictorial wrappers A fine copy. 1979 edition of this very comprehensive catalog of railroad material for HO model trains. Covers manufacturers, passenger cars, traction, locomotives, freight cars, scenery items, structures, figures, tools, paint, and on, and on..
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The Wandering Hill
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003 First edition. 302pp. Two-tone beige and tan boards, spine lettered in metallic blue. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The second volume of the Berrybender narratives. The continuing story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830's..
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Wanderings in the Southwest
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Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1990 First book edition. One of 700 copies. Edited with an Introduction by Ron Tyler. 193pp. Eleven plates, folding map. Red cloth, gilt. A very fine copy. Covers Stillman's wanderings throughout Texas in 1855 before settling in California. These letters were first published in The Crayon in 1855, a prominent but short-lived journal of landscape art. The obscurity of the journal hid the value of the letters until Ron Tyler rescued them. Stillman traveled from Port Lavaca through Anaqua, Goliad, Helena, San Antonio, and as far as the Pecos River. [Clark and Brunet I: 244; Clark and Brunet II: 272]..
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Wapping Alice
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Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1981 First edition. Designed and printed by the Arion Press in San Francisco. Introduction and Afterword by Hamlin Hill. 79pp. Frontis portrait, 2 plates from early photographs, 2 facsimiles. Green printed wrappers. A very fine copy. This Twain story, Wapping Alice, is printed here for the first time, together with three letters to Olivia Clemens. Another story, The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm (first published in Harper's, 1882) is also included, as well as portions of the Twain's autobiographical dictation of April 10, 1907..
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War Drums and Wagon Wheels. The Story of Russell, Majors and Waddell.
by Settle, Raymond W. and Mary Lund
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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966 First edition. x, 268 pp. Frontis drawing, endpaper map; chronology, bibliography, index. Cloth. A fine copy with lightly rubbed dust jacket. "The main emphasis is on freighting during the Utah campaign of 1857-58, but there is much on the rise of Santa Fe Trail freighting, with facts, figures, names, wagon design, teamsters' methods, and biographical sketches" (Rittenhouse). [Rittenhouse: 517]..
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The War Without Grant
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New York: The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1950 First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Illustrated with numerous color fold-out maps. Cartography by Axel Kellstrom. Light fading along upper edge of covers, else a fine copy in blue cloth. Dust jacket is darkened and chipped. A look at various Civil War battles in which Grant was not part of..
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The Warden
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New York: The Heritage Press, 1955 Centenary Edition. Introduction by Angela Thirkell. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Marbled boards with burgundy cloth spine, lettered in gilt. Spine faded, else a fine copy in slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. Trollope's first novel in his "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series.. Illus. by Kredel, Fritz.
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Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee
by Lee, Elizabeth Blair
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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991 Edited by Virginia Jeans Laas. Octavo. 552pp. Bibliogrpahy, index. Maroon cloth with silver lettering on spine. A very fine copy with very lightly worn pictorial dust jacket (dust jacket has a tiny hole to foredge). A sampling of hundreds of letters from Elizabeth Blair Lee to her naval officer husband, Samuel Philips Lee during the Civil War. .
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The Washington 89... in Commemoration of the Washington State Centennial in 1989
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Morongo Valley, CA: Sagebrush Press, 1989 First edition. Limited to 890 copies. Pp. xxi, 98. plus facsimiles, folding facsimile frontis map. Tan cloth sides, brown cloth spine, gilt. A very fine copy. Lists eighty-nine "highly significant" books published before 1959 that trace the history of Washington state. Includes collations, references, and excellent annotations. .
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The Watercolor Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson from the Albert H. Wiggin Collection in the Boston Public Library
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New York: Watson-Guptill Publicatitons, 1947 First edition. 4to. 53 full page plates. Gilt-lettered off white cloth. Spine is faded. Else a fine copy. A retropective of the work of Thomas Rowlandson..
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The Way of All Flesh
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Norwalk, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1964 Octavo. Pictures by Robert Ward Johnson. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser. Yellow cloth with stamped red illustration to front cover and spine. A very fine copy in slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in.. Illus. by Johnson, Robert Ward.
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The Way of the World: Comedy in Five Acts
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New York: The Heritage Press, 1959 Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Illustrations by T.M. Cleland. Blind stamped blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Spine faded, else a fine copy in slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in.. Illus. by Cleland, T.M..
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