[Rarebooks] FS: Western Americana at modest "entry level" prices ...

Wed Nov 9 14:03:42 EST 2005

For those beginning collectors (and dealers :) ...

California Emigrant Letters. New York: Bookman Associates, (1952). 
Illustrated. Octavo, blue cloth lettered in red. Spine area with some 
loss of pigmentation, three tiny insect holes in spine, bookplate on 
front free endpaper, else fine. First edition. $15.00

 From Train to Plane: Travels in the American West 1866-1936. An 
Exhibition in The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale 
University. New Haven: Yale University Library, 1979. Quarto, Loose 
sheets stapled at spine. Wrappers lightly dust soiled and dimpled, 
else fine.
This exhibition catalogue traces the development of travel in the 
West from 1866, when Demas Barnes crossed the continent on the route 
of the partially completed Union Pacific Railroad, to 1936, when a 
New York to Los Angeles air flight could be accomplished in seventeen 
and one half hours. In between these dates indefatigable journeyers 
from an exotic range of backgrounds visited every corner of the West, 
recording their observations in diaries, books, letters, drawings, 
maps, and photographs. This catalogue reproduces the original 
exhibition labels for the show. $10.00

Ho for California! Women's Overland Diaries from the Huntington 
Library. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1980. Illustrated. Octavo, 
brown wrappers. Fine. First edition.  $10.00

Mines Views, Volume XXIX Number 3. Golden: School of Mine, 1934. 
Illustrated. Octavo, blue wrappers. Fine.
An issue of the Quarterly of the Colorado School of Mines. $10.00

Prospector, Cowhand, and Sodbuster. Historic Places Associated with 
the Mining, Ranching, and Farming Frontiers in the Trans-Mississippi 
West. Volume XI. Washington: United States Department of the 
Interior, National Park Service, 1967. Profusely illustrated. Octavo, 
cloth. Near fine.
Historic places associated with the mining, ranching, and farming 
frontiers in the trans-Mississippi West. Filled with numerous black 
and white photographs. $15.00

Publications of the California State Division of Mines. San 
Francisco: Division of Mines, (1955). Octavo, brown wrappers, black 
cloth spine. Wrappers and spine a little worn, else fine. $10.00

Reflections of Western Historians. (Tempe): The University of Arizona 
Press, (1969). Octavo, brown cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial dust 
jacket (spine a tad sunned, minimal rubbing of edges). Fine. First 
edition.
Some of the "Reflections" are by Van Orman, Don E. Chipman, William 
H. Hutchinson, Thomas R. Cox, Lewis D. Hicks, Ben H. Proctor and Earl 
Pomery. $15.00

San Francisco 1878. Eadweard Muybridge's Portrait of the City. (San 
Francisco: Wells Fargo & Company, 1987). Illustrated profusely with 
photographs. Octavo, green wrappers. Fine. $15.00

Some Treasures of the Bancroft Library, Celebrating the Dedication of 
teh Enlarged and Remodeled Library, May 6th, 1973. Berkeley: 
University of California Press, 1973. Illustrated. Octavo, blue 
wrappers. Fine. $10.00

Vanishing Victorians. A Guide to the Historic Homes of Sacramento. 
(Sacramento): American Association of University Women, (1973). 
Profusely illustrated. Quarto, yellow wrappers pictorially stamped in 
brown. The first few leaves loose but present, else fine. $15.00

BLANDING, Don. Mostly California. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 
1948. Profusely illustrated by Don Blanding. Octavo, original blue 
cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. 
Spine lightly faded and ends very lightly rubbed, top of covers 
lightly faded, some pigment removal by silverfish on lower covers, 
ink mark on front free endpaper, else fine . First edition. Inscribed 
by the author.
A charmingly illustrated book. $15.00

CARTER, William. Ghost Towns of the West. A Pictorial Guide to Towns 
and Mining Camps that Opened the West. Menlo Park: Lane Publishing 
Company, (1978). Profusely illustrated with color and black and white 
photographs  by the author, and maps. Octavo, original tan pictorial 
wrappers lettered in brown, pictorial dust jacket (one tear (closed0 
about two inches along right spine edge). Fine.
A Sunset Pictorial book about the early west and what remains of it. $15.00

CARY, W. M. Emigrants to the West. N.p: 1875 c.. black and white 
engraving. Approximately 4-1/2 x 7-1/4 image area, in plastic sleeve. 
Fine. Signed in the plate.
The scene shows two covered wagons on the prairie with some cattle 
laying down, a horse tethered to one wagon, a few sheep milling 
about. In the foreground is a cooking fire where a woman is pouring 
coffe surrounded by some children and two men, one of whom is handing 
her two pheasants (?). $15.00

[CATALOGUE]. Searching for Riches. The California Gold Rush. 
Bloomington: Lilly Library, 1991. Illustrated. Quarto, yellow 
wrappers, stamped pictorially on front cover. Front wrapper a little 
dogeared, else fine.
Contains 86 entries of books about the California Gold Rush from 
James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California to Bret Harte 
and his Luck of Roaring Camp. With an index . $15.00

CHAPMAN, Arthur. Out Where the West Begins and Other Western Verses. 
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, (1917. Octavo, brown boards, brown cloth 
spine lettered in gilt. Slightly rubbed at corners, else fine.
With a charming inscription beginning "To the dear Doctor Lady. 
Hoping she has found the West as pictured herein. ..." and dated 
1920. $10.00

DILLON, Richard H. Embarcadero. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, (1959). 
Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original brown cloth, spine 
lettered in black, pictorial dust jacket (very lightly rubbed). Small 
pieces of dust jacket stuck to lower spine, endpapers very lightly 
foxed and lightly browned, top edge lightly foxed. Signed by the 
author. $15.00

DILLON, Richard H. Embarcadero. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, (1959). 
Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original brown cloth, spine 
lettered in black, pictorial dust jacket (very lightly rubbed). 
Endpapers very slightly browned, top edge very lightly foxed, else 
fine. Signed by the author. $15.00

DOBIE, J. Frank. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, 
Revised and Enlarged in Both Knowledge and Wisdom. Dallas: Southern 
Methodist University Press, 1952. Illustrated. Octavo, wrappers. 
Spine damaged by insects, a few crayon marks to front wrapper, some 
underlining and discreet notations to text.
Some interesting chapter headings in this bibliography include Women 
Pioneers, Mountain Men, Pony Express, Pioneer Doctors, Fighting 
Texans, Cowboy Songs and Other Ballads, The Bad Man Tradition, and 
Negro Folk Songs and Tales. $10.00

HARTE, Bret. Tales of the Gold Rush. New York: Heritage Press, 
(1944). Illustrated by Fletcher Martin. Octavo, brownish coppery 
coloured boards, cream cloth spine lettered in brown. Slight rubbing 
of board edges, removal of bookplate on front pastedown, else fine.
Contains stories by Bret Harte with the haunting illustrations by 
Fletcher Martin. The Luck of Roaring Camp was published in 1868 and 
made Harte an instantly recognized writer. Some other stories 
contained in this volume are The Outcast of Poker Flat, How Santa 
Claus Came to Simpson's Bar  and An Ingenue of the Sierras. . $15.00

HERSHOLT, Jean. English & American First Editions and Other Books: 
Americana Relating to California and the West Collected by Jean 
Hersholt, Beverly Hills, California. New York: Parke-Bernet 
Galleries, 1954. Illustrated. Octavo, original red printed wrappers. 
Spine minutely sunned, else fine.
843 items with black and white reproductions of bindings and title 
pages. $15.00

JOESTEN, Joachim. Gold Today. New York: David McKay Company, (1954). 
12mo, brown cloth lettered in black on spine. Barely rubbed at spine 
ends, fine. $15.00

[JOHN HOWELL-BOOKS]. Catalogue #39, Early Newspapers and Periodicals 
of California and the West, including the only known complete copy of 
the first volume of the Californian the state's first newspaper, and 
more than a century's run of the Placer Herald. San Francisco: John 
Howell-Books, 1970. Octavo, printed paper wrappers. Fine. $15.00

LEWIS, Marvin, Editor. The Mining Frontier. Contemporary Accounts 
from the American West in the Nineteenth Century. Norman: University 
of Oklahoma Press, (1967). Illustrated. Octavo, blue cloth stamped in 
black and lettered in gilt, pictorial dust jacket (slight buckling 
from having been damp). Fine. First edition. $15.00

[MASSETT, Stephen C.]. Biobooks Presents Stephen C. Massett in The 
First California Troubadour. Oakland: Biobooks, 1954. Octavo, green 
cloth, gilt cloth spine lettered in black. Fine. California Heritage 
#37. One of 500 copies.
"A 49er, he was the earliest entertainer at San Francisco and 
Sacramento, and published 56 ballads. This book contains extracts 
from his 1863 autbiography. [Rocq 15948].$15.00

REPPLIER, Agnes. Junipero Serra. Pioneer Colonist of California. 
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1941. Octavo, black cloth with 
pictorial plate affixed to front cover, and on spine. Ex-library, 
partof dust jacket flap glued to front pastedown.  $10.00

ROBERTS, Lee S and CALLAHAN, J. Will.  Ching Chong. Chicago: Lee S. 
Roberts, (1917). Approximately 12-3/4" x 10", pictorial wrappers. 
Tiny tear in front margin of front wrapper, else fine.
Music and lyrics to the song "Ching Chong" about a Chinaman in San 
Francisco who "when the time is ripe, he'll fill your little pipe 
..." . $10.00

SMITH, Grant H. The History of the Comstock Lode 1850-1920. Reno: 
Nevada State Bureau of Mines, (1943). Illustrated with frontispiece. 
Octavo, silver wrappers lettered in blue. Minimal rubbing, else fine.
University of Nevada Bulletin, Vol. XXXVII, July 1, 1943, No. 3. $15.00

STARR, Walter A. Drake Landed in San Francisco Bay in 1579. The 
Testimony of the Plate of Brass. San Francisco: California Historical 
Society, 1962. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cream wrappers. 
Fine. Reprint . $10.00

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