New York: Simon & Schuster [1996], 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 511 pp. Light brown paper covered boards quarter bound in dark brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $27.50 on front flap of dust jacket. More
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. 336 pp. Price of $15.00 on front flap of jacket. Edited with an introduction by Jack D. L. Holmes. Foreword by John Francis McDermott. An Englishman's account of travel along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Bookplate on recto of page preceding the... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1957. First printing. Hardcover. 386 pp. Price of $6.00 on front flap of jacket. Includes an index and notes. A Near Fine book with a few spots of discoloration on the rear free endpaper in a Very Good+ book with a few hints of edge wear... More
New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 614 pp. Bound in grey cloth with gilt decorations on the front board and spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated with nearly eighty beautiful black and white photolithographic plates. Includes the name card of Mrs. Overton H. Chenault (born Lida... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First printing. Hardcover. 361 pp. Price of $4.00 on front flap of jacket. Includes an index, a bibliography, and several beautiful black and white plates from various historical sources. Cazedessus 1. A beautiful copy. More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press [1990], 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. 417 pp. Bound in rich red leather with gilt decorations on the boards and the spine. Textblock in gilt with pale beige decorative silk pastedowns and endpapers. Translated and edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. Illustrated by Lima de Freitas. Includes an... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912. First American edition. Hardcover. 229 pp. Boards in original navy blue cloth with gold lettering. First printing of the first American edition. Ahearn APG 018c. Some light wear and a few traces of discoloration to boards. More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 440 pp.; 911 pp. Large 8vo. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine and black lettering and decorations on the front board. "Jeannette" is outlined in gilt with gilt decorations meant to simulate icicles. On each... More
Los Angeles: Western Lore Press, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. 180 pp. Price of $5.75 on front flap of jacket. A nice copy of this Gold Rush journal centered around a family's journey from Wisconsin to California in 1853. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket with a.... More
Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 1961. First printing. Hardcover. 287 pp. Price of $6.00 on front flap of jacket. Includes several black and white illustrations, a bibliography, notes and an index. Illustrations by Mac Schweitzer. Foreward by Jack Schaefer. The story of Charles Jesse Jones. Light bumping to... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. 106 pp. Price of $13.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Translated by Randolph Hogan. A Near Fine book in a Very Good+ dust jacket with mild foxing and a few hints of edge wear. More
New York: L. H. Walter, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. 512 pp. Bound in olive green cloth with gilt decorations and black ruling, green patterned endpapers and pastedowns, edges speckled with green ink. Introduction by Merritt Starr, special memorial by Bishop Samuel Fallows. 64 black and white photographs including the frontispiece... More
New York: Villard (1996), 1996. First printing. Hardcover. 207 pp. Price of $22.00 on front flap of dust jacket. The author's first book, basis for the eponymous film. A Very Good+ book with a former owner's blindstamp on the free front endpaper and a small bump to the rear board... More
New York: Villard, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. 293 pp. Price of $24.95 on front flap of dust jacket. More
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1938. Second edition. Hardcover. 672 pp. This issue recorded in O'Brien under A060 (Second American Edition; bound in brown buckram with top edge brown, CL added as last line on copyright page with no blind stamping on the rear cover). The gift inscription... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006. First printing. Hardcover. 339 pp. Price of $25.95 on front flap of dust jacket. More
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. [1953], 1953. First printing. Hardcover. 458 pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Cazedessus 12. A nice copy of... More
Denver, CO: The Old West Publishing Company, 1964. First printing. Hardcover. Folio. 341 pp. Bound in gray-green cloth with red line drawings on the front board and gilt titling on the spine. Includes a large fold-out map, numerous illustrations, reproductions of portions of a letter and diary entries, extensive notes... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1967. First printing. Hardcover. 482 pp. Price of $12.50 on front flap of jacket. Slight separation between backstrip and top of textblock; jacket has a few traces of rubbing and edge wear. More
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
New York: Hastings House, 1963. First printing. Hardcover. 306 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. The biography of a Scotsman who after fighting for Great Britain in Napoleon's wars, became involved in the fur trade as a frontiersman. Includes eight black and white photos. Slight separation between... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1990], 1990. Second printing. Hardcover. 522 pp. Dark green paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $35.00 on front flap of dust jacket. A former owner's blindstamp on the free front endpaper with a few spots... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 311 pp. Bound in brown cloth with brown endpapers and pastedowns and gilt lettering on the front board and spine and decorations stamped in black on the front board and spine. Includes steel engravings from the original illustrations by J.W.... More