New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 311 pp. Price of $12.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The author's history of the development of railroads in the American west in the 19th century. Very few hints of edge wear to jacket. More about Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow; Railroads in the West
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. 383 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Jacket has some slight toning to the spine panel and a tiny chip to top right corner of the rear panel, but is otherwise Fine. More about The Great North Trail; America's Route of the Ages
New York: Cowles Book Company, Inc., 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 242 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed and dated by author on free front endpaper. Few hints of shelf wear to edges of boards; traces of edge wear, small abrasion on reverse of jacket, few mild... More about Black Heroes in Our Nations History
New York: E.P Dutton & Company, Inc., 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 363 pp. Price of 5.00 on front flap of jacket. Name written on free front end paper, newspaper photo of author laid in, (toning to the two adjacent pages), few traces of foxing to text block; light edge wear... More about The Centuries of Santa Fe
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. First printing. Hardcover. 392 pp. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Bound in green cloth with mission embossed in gold on front board, gilt top edge, gold lettering on the spine. A comprehensive history of Franciscan missions left by Spanish Missionaries between the... More about In and Out of the Old Missions of California
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 366 pp. Price of $9.95 on front flap of jacket. Includes several black and white photographs of historic persons mentioned in Johnson's history of the gold rush to Montana. Some areas of discoloration to textblock, rubbing and fading to boards; jacket... More about The Bloody Bozeman; The Perilous Trail to Montana's Gold
New York: R. Worthington, 770 Broadway, 1884. Reprint. Hardcover. 307 pp. 8 vo. Bound in green cloth with gilt decorations on the front board and the spine, with more decorations etched in black and green. Contains eight pages of ads after the text. A Very Good+ book that has a.... More about A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the end of the Dutch Dynasty
New York: The New American Library, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 288 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Mailer's account of his participation in the October 1967 demonstrations against the Vietnam War in Washington D.C. Significant fading to top edges of boards and spine; jacket shows some light edge wear. More about The Armies of the Night; History as a Novel, The Novel as History
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. 413 pp. Price of $29.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The abridgement of the Definitive Nebraska Edition, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and the Members of the Corps of Discovery. Edited and with an introduction by Gary E. Moulton. A... More about The Lewis and Clark Journals; An American Epic of Discovery
Seattle: University of Washington Press (1965), 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 324 pp. Price of $7.50 on front flap of jacket. Includes an index, notes, and a bibliography. A few hints of foxing on the top of the textblock; closed tear on top right edge of rear panel, few very tiny... More about The Fur Trader and the Indian
New York: The New Press [2012], 2012. First printing. Hardcover. 130 pp. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the New Press edition. More about Studs Terkel's Chicago
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First edition thus. Hardcover. 454 pp. Edited, with an introduction, new materials, and notes, by Donald Smalley. Bibliography, index. First printing of the first edition thus. Very near Fine book in an attractive Very Good+ price-clipped jacket with some mild darkening to the spine panel. More about Domestic Manners of the Americans
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 258 pp. Bound in dark green cloth stamped with black and orange decorations on the front board, lettering in gilt on the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. Ten black and white photographic plates (including frontispiece)... More about The White Mountains; A Guide to their Interpretation