Western Americaana from Kerkhoff Books Div KSI

Scribner's, 1915 Bound in mustard colored cloth with gilt decorations, 431 pp., "published October, 1915", true first edition. Nice copy with minor bumps to the covers, offsetting inside front covers touching the facing side of the endpapers. No names, inscriptions, marks, etc. Howes G433

St Louis, MO.: Historical Publishing Company, 1881 bound in red brown covers with gilt titles, 148 pp. including plates. Howes B933. This copy with spine fade and a scuff to front cover and wear to tips. What makes this copy stand out is how nice, clean and bright is the interior. All pages and especially the color plates are clean… Read more about this item

lippincott, 1913 Bound in red wove cloth with gilt titles, ex-school library, 309 pp. Text is mostly unread, but with a few leaves with a mildly bumped top corner. First edition, "Published September, 1913".

Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854 Bound in faded green blind stamped cloth with gilt titles, 390 pp. plus 2 pp ads. Contents mostly unread. Quite light foxing to the endsheets, heavier to the frontis, tissue guard and title page. Quite rare to text.Pencil ownership name, spine gilt tiles faded.Still much better than usually found.

Edgewood, 1891 Bound in green cloth with gilt decorations, 545 pp. This copy is complete, a good reading copy. Covers are worn and hinges cracked but holding, pencil on the end papers and on top of the title page and occasional finger soil. A used, complete copy which can serve as a good reader.

Charles L Webster, 1893 Sharp early printing bound in light brown buckram with brown titles, 403 pp plus 9 pp ads. Mildly ex-lib with number on spine, one on title page and inside rear cover, a touch of a damp stain on spine and rear cover. Contents are fine. [Given the way it is numbered I believe this is… Read more about this item

Grosset & Dunlap, 1930 First format with red cloth, black shield and green/gold titles with black borders. Name and date inside front cover. Exceptional copy with covers bright and retaining original shine. Carpentieri 1930 B-2

Grosset & Dunlap, 1929 First format with red cloth, black shield and green/gold titles with black borders. Exceptional copy with covers bright and retaining original shine. There is a touch of wear at the top tips, name and date inside front cover. Carpentieri 1930 A-2

San Francisco: A L Bancroft & Co, 1884 Bound in green cloth with gilt titles, 415pp plus 24pp ads, 19 illustrations plus map made especially for this edition. Howes H133 Folding map is detached but present and in nice shape [tiny holes at one fold]. There is wear at the tips. Ads at back would be of great interest to… Read more about this item

Blue Ribbon Books Bound in dark blue cloth with orange titles, 347pp. top edge stained orange, "Dedicated with some hesitation and infinite deference to various uncontrollable ladies". Besides the exceptional condition of this book what separates it is an old newspaper clipping tipped to the front end paper. It is some reminiscences of an old west barber who had an… Read more about this item