Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier

West, Elliott · 1989

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, 1989. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Ten chapters of fine social historical analysis of childhood on the American Frontier, and with over two dozen illustrations in black-and-white, showing children as hunters and...

Red Lights on the Prairies

Gray, James H. · 1971

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Toronto, Canada, Macmillan of Canada, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Simple light-green cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Volume...

The Battle for Homestead 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel

Krause, Paul · 1992

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine and readable history of the initial lockout and strike at the Homestead steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 12 appendices, 24 pages of plates and with extensive chap...

A Place to Grow: Women in the American West

Riley, Glenda · 1992

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Arlington Heights, Illinois, Harlan Davidson, 1992. . Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Foreword by the author and then three major sect...

Old Jules Country

Sandoz, Mari · 1965

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Hastings House Publishers, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine collection of the best pieces of writing from Mari Sandoz's Great Plains Series of books, including The Beaver Men, Crazy Horse, Cheyenne Autumn, The Buffalo Hunters, The Cattl...

The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America

Morgan, Edmund S. · 2004

$13.60 (€12.34 | £10.29 | ¥2,172)

New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. ...

Cow Country Legacies

Spring, Agnes Wright · 1976

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Kansas City, Kansas, The Lowell Press, 1976. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine memoir of ranchers and farmers in Wyoming and elsewhere throughout the West. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, pro...

Forged in Strong Fires: The Early Life and Experiences of John Edward Dalton

Wentworth, M. P. · 1948

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Cecil Smith's illustrations greatly augment this fine social history/memoir of John Edward Dalton. High adventures and exciting exploits of a folk hero, practically, as told by M.P. Went...

A Beautiful, Cruel Country

Wilbur-Cruce, Eva Antonia · 1987

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Author is the granddaughter of a Harvard-trained physician who came to the Arizona Territory in 1860. She inherited her family's ranch in 1933 and lived there ever since. Stu...

Thrashin' Time: Memories of a Montana Boyhood

Shatraw, Milton · 1970

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Palo Alto, California, American West Publishing Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Milton Shatraw was born in a two-room log cabin at Wolf Creek Ranch in Helena, Montana in 1901. Handsomely bound in brown cloth, with a fine gilt illustration at f...

One Third Crew, One Third Boat, One Third Luck

Mowry Smith, Jr. and Giles Clark · 1974

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Neenah, Wisconsin, Menasha Corporation, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Menasha Corporation (Menasha Wooden Ware Company) Story 1849-1974. Foreword by George Banta, Jr., followed by Preface; Preliminary Page Quotes by Walt Whitman and Psalms 16:6; ...

South Pass 1868: James Chisholm's Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush

Homsher, Lola M. · 1960

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Comprises Volume III in the Pioneer Heritage Series, and here is published for the first time, James Chisholme's journal relating to the South Pass gold rush in Wyoming. S...

Winning the Wild West: The Epic Saga of the American Frontier, 1800--1899

Page Stegner · 2002

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Free Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright, glossy pictorial covers. Foreword by Larry McMurtry. From the publisher's blurb, "From...

Conversations on the Dresden Gallery

Aragon, Louis and Jean Cocteau · 1982

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1982. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound handsomely in tan sailcloth with brown titling on spine. Bright a...

Wild Flowers of the United States, Volume Two, Part Two

Rickett, Harold William · 1967

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

New York, McGraw-Hill For The New York Botanical Garden, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound exemplar of Part Two of Volume Two, The Wildflowers of the United States, being the Southeastern States, with General Editor, Wi...

Jusepe de Ribera

Scholz-Hansel, Michael · 2000

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Cologne, Germany, Konemann, 2000. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine addition to the Masters of . . . series. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. The chapter...

Gauguin by Himself

Thomson, Belinda, ed. · 1993

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Chartwell Books, . Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Publication date not listed, but appears to be a reprint of the 1993 and 1998 editions published by Little, Brown and Company. Glossy pictorial covers, bright, clean, unmarked interior. Edited ...

Burs Under the Saddle: A Second Look at Books and Histories of the West

Ramon F. Adams · 1964

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Ex-library copy with usual accession numbers to spine, front cover, ink-stamps and a library bookplate inside front flap, endpapers, etc., else clean and unmarked of inte...

Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869-1918

Flam, Jack · 1987

$35.20 (€31.94 | £26.64 | ¥5,621)

Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1987. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Handsomely bound in a brown linen weave cloth, with sha...

Imazighen: The Vanishing Traditions of Berber Women

Brooks, Geraldine · 1996

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

New York, Clarkson-Potter Publishing Company, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. 192 pages with an index and bibliography. 230 fu...