[nice clean copy, extremely light spotting to rear cover, no discernible wear]. (B&W photographs) A selection of letters from a noted paleontologist, written to his family while he was on various field research trips throughout the Western United States; letters are dated from 1897 to 1929. Dr. Matthew (1871-1930) was with the American Museum of Natural History in New York for 33 years, where he was named curator of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1911. He spent several years, later in his life, as a professor at the University of California, and ultimately his papers and books ... View More...
[tight clean book, with just a bit of shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket has a few tiny tears and chips along the top edge (front and rear panels both), still bright and attractive]. (color plates, pen and ink drawings) Beguiling mash-up of fact and legend about the mother(s) of all gold and silver mines, supposedly "still there!" somewhere in the American Southwest, by an author who "has prospected more exhaustively into the history and legends of the southwest than any other man [and presents] a nerve-tingling account of buried treasure truer than many that launched fleets and dep... View More...
(photocopied typescript, velobound, with plastic strips) [moderately worn, with the plastic strip holding the rear cover in place beginning to pull loose at the top; this binding can easily be re-done at any copy shop]. (B&W photographs; see notes) Privately-printed memoir of ranch life in New Mexico, circa 1910-1921. The author's "forward" explains: "This is the story of a widow, born and raised in New York City, and four of her five sons, one of whom was myself, who gave up the comforts of a Brownstone house on West Seventieth Street and the advantages of the big city, to migrate to the Ter... View More...
[slight bumping to a couple of corners, no other significant wear to book; jacket lightly soiled and a bit rubbed/scuffed, minor wear visible at base of spine]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front pastedown. "This is a unique account of life in the tie camps of western Wyoming during the 1920s and 1930s. From firsthand knowledge, Linn prresents interesting information about the making of ties, primitive living conditions, and difficulties encountered in securing adequate schools and medical aid. He assesses the effect of solitude on those who lived in the ... View More...
[just a bit of shelfwear and light bumping to bottom edges/corners, one-time owner's rubber-stamped signature on front pastedowns (both volumes); jackets are uniformly age-toned (somewhat more at spines), with general soiling and some wrinkling along the top edges, but with no tears or chips]. (2 photogravure ports.; 72 color plates; 2 maps) Regrettably incomplete set (Volumes I and III only; Volume II is not present) of this classic work, originally published in three folio volumes issued in 1836, 1838 and 1844. The introduction to this "New Edition," by editor Hodge, presents an ac... View More...
[nice clean copy, some browning to covers and spine, price-sticker removal scar on front cover]. (B&W photographs, maps) Contents include: "An Economic History of North Idaho, 1800-1900, Part I" by D.E. Livingston-Little; "San Blas, Nayarit: An Historical and Geographical Study" by Edward L. Inskeep; "San Miguel Island: Its History and Archaeology" by Francis R. Holland Jr.; "General James H. Carleton and the New Mexico Indian Campaigns, 1862-1866" by Henry H. Goldman; "The Story of Los Angeles, Part III" by Margaret Romer; "Luis Antonio Arguello: Fi... View More...
[nice clean copy, some browning to covers and spine, price-sticker removal scar on front cover]. (B&W photographs, maps) Contents include: "Indian Horticulture West and Northwest of the Colorado River" by Jack D. Forbes; "The Last Days of Don Juan Perez, The Mallorcan Mariner" by James G. Caster; "Rustlers of the North Pacific" by Theodore C. Hinckley; "The Story of Los Angeles, Part II" by Margaret Romer; "Col. Henry Stimson's Peace Mission to Nicaragua" by Charles E. Frazier Jr.; "Lassoing the Grizzly Bear: A Tale from Old Santa Barbara" by Gab... View More...
[light shelfwear to bottom edges of boards, otherwise a solid clean book; jacket a bit dampstained at bottom corner of rear panel and rear flap, a bit of wrinkling and surface damage to rear panel, small closed tear and small chip (no loss of text) at top of rear panel]. Historical novel of the Old West, centering around Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe, and the tribe's conflicts with the settlers who came into the Oregon Territory after the completion of the transcontinenal railroad in 1869. View More...
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