Houston. “Where Seventeen Railroads Meet the Sea.” by Jerome H Farbar - 1913: Great Images of Early Houston

First Edition. Very Good +/Fair. 1982. 1st printing, NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY. Photographs by William Albert Allard. Foreword by Thomas McGuane Little Brown & Co: Boston, (1982). Oblong quarto, blue denim cloth, in a dust wrapper, price cut, with one tear and a little worn. 144 pages, beautifully illustrated in full colour. A very good plus copy with the extra photographic process colour print laid in as issued. POSTAGE WITH TRACKING via French Post DELIVENGO

Washington: U. S. Department of Agriculture / Government Printing Office, 1920. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Very Good. Maps, Photographs. 87 Pp + Very, Very Large Multi-Fold Color Map In Rear. Tan Wrappers Printed In Black, No Names Or Marks.

Santa Ana: Fine Arts Press, 1936. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. (V), 40 Pp. Brown Boards Printed In Black. Scarce Account Of The Litigation And Related Historical Matters Regarding The Rancho Santa Margarita, Now A Development Worth In The Tens Of Billions Of Dollars. Light Wear, Paper Covering The Boards Intact, But Dampstaining In 3/4" Deep Area Around Spine On Both Covers, With 1" Depth At Lower Corner Of Boards And About 1/4" Depth Across Bottom Of Boards.

Near Fine book that has very slight bumps to corners, shelf wear to edges, pages are slightly age-toned. and with soft spine ends; in a Good jacket that has chips, largest about 1 by 2 inches top corner front panel, and tears to edges, some color loss, rubbing, and with slight fading to spine. The $4.00 price on front flap has been lined through and 2.95 written in ballpoint. This copy inscribed generically – Happy Trails – and signed by Muller on a blank end page between the half-title and title pages. Muller was better known as a Western artist whose work was influenced by C. M. Russell. Muller claims to have lived with Buffalo Bill, after his father was killed in an accident, from when he was nine until he was twenty seven. The veracity of this tale has been disputed and the tale here might be considered autobiographical fiction. The book is quite scarce signed by the author, who was the illustrator.

Sundance Books, 1998. Hardcover. Used - near fine condition in a very good clear vinyl dust jacket. Signed by author on first title page. Book has no damage and very little shelf wear. Light bumping at corners and at ends of spine. Vinyl dust jacket has some creases along edges. No writing or highlighting. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

Westernlore Press, LA, 1967. HBDJ, 1967, 1st edition, minor rub DJ & small mended tear, VG/VG, Light X-Library Stamp top Edge outer pgs, but no other Markings, blank endpapers light residue. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Signed by the author. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, tan paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine, price-clipped dust jacket with one light crease to the front flap. A beautiful copy of a scarce book. The author's first book. The seventh volume in the Harper and Row Native American Publishing Program.

Albany: Printed by Hoffman and White, 1833. Third Edition, Revised. Full Leather. Very Good. 400pp; folding frontispiece and folding map of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers. Old sheep, expertly rebacked with gilt spine rules and the original red leather label; endbands rolled in period style. 8.5" x 5.25" [Howes, USiana P589. Sabin 65484. Field, Indian Bibliography 1245. Flake, Mormon Bibliography, 6755: "Derisive reference to the Book of Mormon." Decker 35:566.].

Potts Point NSW: Hordern House, 2004. First Edition. Fine/Fine. [11.25x8.5in]; xi [introduction], 690 pp.,732 articles with 4000 names of persons and ships, index of persons, index of ships; Gray green cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, all edges trimmed, three gold page mark ribbons, light gray illustration of explorers looking at map on a promontory overlooking land on front and back end papers; Pictorial color illustration on dust jacket of Gill painting of Australian "Desert Interior" circa 1846 [also on end papers], black lettering on front and spine; Publisher prospectus tipped in. Raymond Howgego (1946- ) is an independent researcher, scholar and traveler. He has been researching the history of travel and exploration for much of his adult life. His first book in this series, Encyclopedia of Exploration To 1800, was issued in 2003 was the distillation of that research that took some fifteen years to complete. This book is the second in the series and cites more than 10,000… Read More

San Francisco: Sunset Publishing House, 1920. First Edition. Paperback original. Very Good. [6.5x3.75in]; 98 pp., three maps - 'Aeroplane' view of Valley features, Yosemite Village and Valley roads, and fold out at rear of Yosemite Valley roads and trails to adjacent regions and contours; Brown pebbled paper wrappers of two staple/glue binding, with black ink lettering and illustration of Half Dome on front; Minor field and shelf wear to covers and maps, small tear at foot of back strip and along front joint (both repaired to limit further damage), minor soiling to covers, original glue stains along front hinge, some age toning to text, folding map in near fine condition with minor misfold edge crease. Ansel Franklin Hall (1894-1962) was a naturalist and the first Chief Naturalist and Forester of the United States National Park Service. From 1920 to 1923, Hall was the first Park Naturalist of Yosemite National Park. He established interpretive programs, founded the Yosemite Museum Association,… Read More