Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [5], 3-272, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of a manuscript page from Tabeau's original narrative..... More
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [3], 4-94, [2] pp. Recent full blue morocco, spine lettered in gold. ANB, "Lafayette, Marquis de". Eberstadt 111: 2. Sabin 295. John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, delivered this speech to Congress after Layfayette's death in..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [3], 3-310 pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering on the spine blocked in maroon; red topstain. Illustrated by a few black and white photographs. Includes an index. Adams, Six Guns 9. A Near Fine book with a...... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x, [13], 6-486 pp. Quarter navy cloth over red boards with silver lettering on the spine blocked in red. Price of $12.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by several photographs, a map, and numerous drawings..... More
London: MacDonald and Jane's (1976), 1976. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x, [13], 6-486 pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrations include a map, several black and white photographs, and numerous drawings by Kenneth Francis Dewey. First..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. First printing. Hardcover. (1980) 363 pp. Price of $17.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Jacket shows some light age toning and has a few very faint scratches to the rear panel. More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart [1938], 1938. Ross Santee. First printing. Hardcover. 389 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Includes an index, a bibliography, the essay "Rivers and American Folk" by Constance Lindsay Skinner, and several black and white illustrations by Ross Santee. Part of "The..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1856. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 4-355, [1] pp. Endpapers and pastedowns contain publisher's advertisements. Red blindstamped cloth with a gold decoration of a person proselytizing to a group of people sitting under a tree, spine lettered in gold. Illustrated by a frontispiece, a...... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 300 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. A study of the Mexican War from both sides, including an investigation of what drove the conflict and the myths about the war. Includes maps on pastedowns and endpapers. Index, along..... More
Chapel Hill: The University Of North Carolina Press [1982], 1982. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiv, [1], 2-238, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over tan patterned paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Part of the series, "Studies on Armed Forces and Society". Series editor Sam C. Sarkesian. A..... More
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press (1998), 1998. First printing. Hardcover. 515 pp. A historical study of Illinois focused particularly on the first 50 years of the nineteenth century. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo; 436 pp. Bound in blue cloth, with gilt decoration and lettering on the front board and gilt lettering on the spine, color frontispiece with tissue guard, and numerous additional illustrations by John Wolcott Adams. Lacks the dust jacket. Albion..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xxvii, [1], 1-483, [1]. Bound in tan cloth with lettering stamped in red on the front board and the spine, map of the fur trade country on endpapers and pastedowns, numerous plates with 81 illustrations from paintings by Alfred..... More
Lincoln, NE: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [10], xi-xiii, [3], 3-456, [2] pp. Quarter brown cloth over light brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $10.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. Fine book in..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [9], 4-434 pp. Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine; red topstain. Price of $12.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs. A Very Good book with..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company [1973], 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xiv, 274 pp. Brown cloth with silver lettering on the spine; blue topstain. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. Adams, More Burs, 57. A Near Fine book with a brief gift inscription on the recto of..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], xi-xvi, 313, [1] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; dark purple topstain. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Edited by A.B. Guthrie Jr. A Near Fine book in a Near..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company [1929], 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], vii-xiv, [2], 3-314 pp. Bound in grey cloth with the title and the publisher blocked in navy cloth and embossed in gold lettering; grey topstain. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Henry M. Shreve and by..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii, [3] 310 pp. Black cloth with red lettering on the front board and spine; red topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a black and white photograph frontispiece of Fortescue and..... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1943. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [7] (with one page of publisher's advertisements), ix-xxvii, [3], xxxi-xxxii, [2], 3-364, [4] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine, gilt border and publisher's device embossed in gilt on the front board, top..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xxv, [2], 2-428, [2]; [3], iv-xii, [3], 2-444 pp. Bound in navy cloth with silver lettering on the front boards and the spine panels, and red and gold decorations on the front boards and the spines..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vii-xxvi, [2], 3-164, [2] pp. Quarter black paper over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a map and several black and white photographs. A compilation of Native American perspectives on The Great Sioux War, from..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xix, [6], 4-320, viii, [2] pp. Half green cloth over black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, a black decoration on the front board; black topstain. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by several..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], vii-xxiii, [3], 3-440, x, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over red cloth with gold lettering on the spine and decorations in brown on the spine; orange topstain. Price of $10.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by numerous photographs..... More
Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [1], 293, [5] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several black and white photographs and three maps. A collection of articles from Montana The Magazine of Western History. More