[Rarebooks] For Sale: A handful of Westerners

[Norman Kane]

YOUNG, HARRY (SAM).   HARD KNOCKS. A LIFE STORY OF THE VANISHING 
WEST.  Portland, Oregon, 1915.  First edition, with the Portland 
imprint rather than Chicago.  New USiana Y30 (b).  8vo, original 
cloth, new end papers.  25 plates from photos & drawings, as listed. 
(Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, massacres, Indian fights, scalping, 
tortures, &c.)
$90.00   (Trade Discount 10 %)



PIERCE, FRANK C.   A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY. 
Menasha, Wisc.: Collegiate Press; Geo. Banta, 1917.  First 
edition.  Original cloth, 6 1/2 X 4 1/2 inches, marginal tear on one 
leaf mended, pencilled names on end papers.            3 folding maps 
& illustrations.  $85.00          (Trade Discount 10 %)



VAN EVERY, DALE.   THE SHINING MOUNTAINS.   N. Y.: Messner, 
(1948).  First edition, one of 500 copies "Specially printed and 
bound" with extra signed title page.  Original gold wraparound laid 
in.  Octavo, original cloth stamped in gold, in the slightly worn 
pictorial dust wrapper. Map end papers (the road to Oregon.)  (Novel: 
early 19th Century.)   $75.00    (Trade Discount 10 %)



NIX, EVETT DUMAS.   OKLAHOMBRES, PARTICULARLY THE WILDER ONES, AS 
TOLD TO GORDON HINES.   (St. Louis: Eden, 1929.)  Octavo, original 
decorated cloth, in edge-chipped pictorial d.w. which has a 3 X 3 1/2 
inch piece gone from the rear panel.  Illustrated end 
papers.  Fronts., plates and marginal figures throughout.  (The 
Daltons; Cattle Annie & Little Breeches; cattle thieves, 
counterfeiters & whiskey peddlers; the fight at the Dunn Ranch; the 
Jennings boys go wild; &c.)     $65.00     (Trade Discount 10 %)



GRINNELL, GEORGE BIRD.   PAWNEE HERO STORIES AND FOLK-TALES WITH 
NOTES ON THE ORIGIN, CUSTOMS AND CHARACTER OF THE PAWNEE PEOPLE.  N. 
Y.: Forest & Stream, 1889. First edition.   Octavo, original 
decorated cloth stamped in gold, just slightly rubbed, end paper 
chipped,  Frontispiece & vignettes.    $90.00   (Trade Discount 10 %)


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