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State Papers and Correspondence bearing Upon the Purchase of the Territory of Louisiana

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U. S. Government Printing Office: 1903

Seller ID: 001069

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

100th anniversary commemorative of Louisiana Purchase. Modestly sunned spine panel, lightly frayed spine extremities. Mild shelf wear, small tiny holes along rear joint. Tape repair to front flylyeaf (blank). 299 pp.
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Los Angeles 1900-1961

By: N/A

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, History Division of the Los Angeles County Museum: 1961

Seller ID: 001561

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

2nd ptg.: 1962. Cocked spine, rubbed joints and edges, warped. Best considered as reading copy, but internally intact and clean. Great photos throughout. [xiv],66 pp., illus. with b&w photos.
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Locomotive Advertising in America 1850-1900

By: N/A

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Scotia, NY, Americana Review: 1960

Seller ID: 001675

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Fine

Booklet, brown stiff paper wraps. Very slightly sunned toward binding fold, else as issued. Fully illus. w/ period advertising, much from "Poor's Manuals of Railroads in the U.S."
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Trains Album of Photographs, Book Two: Far Western Railroads

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Milwaukee, WI, Kalmbach Publishing Co.: 1943

Seller ID: 001677

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Oblong folio, spiralbound, yellow tip-on graphic, black stiff paper covers. First interior overlay detached (inside front cover), as is first onion-skin photographic overlay (at first photo), unknown if other overlays were once present. Interior else fully intact. Modest wear to covers, with slightly faded bottom edge, light wear to corners.
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Around the Circle: One Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains, Being a Description of a Trip Among Peaks, Over Passes and Through Canons of Colorado

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, Passenger Department of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad/R. R. Donnelley and Sons - Lakeside Press:

Seller ID: 007500

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good

Booklet, illus. light blue wraps, oblong format. Undated [ca. 1880s?], printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Lakeside Press, Chicago. Front cover detached but present, moderately soiled, with rubbed edges and paper loss at top binding-edge corner. Rear cover shows some paper loss along edges, as does final leaf of text (not affecting any printed portions). Rear foldout map of Denver & Rio Grande Railroad is intact. A lovely booklet, each verso reproducing a period engraving or b&w photograph, with facing-page commentary on each recto. 32 pp., suggesting an earlier edition than the 1892 edition of...
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Wells Fargo and Company: A Brief History

By: N/A

Price: $6.50

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Wells Fargo Bank: 1981

Seller ID: 010006

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

3rd ptg. Booklet, stiff illus. wraps. 30 pp. Very slight handling wear, virtually as issued.
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Richmond -- "Arsenal of Democracy" [California]

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Berkeley, Printed by Tam Gibbs Co.: 1941

Seller ID: 013344

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Tan cloth, lettered in gilt, bordered in light brown, with marbled endpapers. 103,[1] pp., illus. w/ b&w photographic plates. Light shelf wear, nearly as issued. Study of the Richmond, California, ship yards prior to America's entry into World War II.
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Hawaiian Islands: Report of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, with Accompanying Testimony, and Executive Documents Transmitted to Congress from January 1, 1893 to March 10, 1894. [Volume 2, of 2]

By: N/A

Price: $195.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., GPO: 1894

Seller ID: 016947

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Black cloth, moderately rubbed/soiled, with somewhat curled corners, flecked spine panel cloth. Two former owner signatures and one institutional library stamp on front endpapers, otherwise unmarked. [ii],811-2287, comprising Volume 2 of a 2-volume continuously paginated set, this volume containing the subject index. Text block a bit toned but otherwise intact. This set was published following the 14 Feb. 1893 formal annexation of Hawaii as a U.S. possession. 52nd Congress, 2nd session. Scarce.
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Tacoma: The Western Terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad [SJS 311]

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Seattle, WA, The Shorey Book Store: 1975

Seller ID: 032079

ISBN: 084660311X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Stiff illus. wraps, plastic punched binding. Essentially as issued. 32,[2] pp. + [7] pp. publisher's catalog at rear. Facsimile reprint of original 1885 editon. Scarce.
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Jim Babcock's Buckaroo Book: Rope Whirls - Lasso Tricks - Cattle Brands - Cowboy Songs - Trail Slang - Trailing and Tracking

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Treasure Chest Publications: 1936

Seller ID: 036609

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Booklet, stiff color illus. wraps. Light wear, covers lightly soiled, interior somewhat toned by age. 32 pp., illus. Log Cabin Syrup ad on rear.
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Oh California!: The Collective Works of Marilyn Buckley Holland

By: Aber, Dana, Cailin Boyle, and Judy Leet (editors)

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Tiburon, CA, Phlio K. Holland, Jr., Publisher: 2002

Seller ID: 048685

ISBN: B000JX0CDI

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Mauve cloth, lettered in gold foil, color front cover pastedown illus. Slight handling wear, essentially as issued. 95 pp., color plates.
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Texas Folklore Society, 1909-1943 [Volume I]

By: Abernethy, Francis Edward

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Denton, TX, University of North Texas Press: 1992

Seller ID: 026529

ISBN: 0929398424

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Orange cloth, lettered in black. As issued. Color illus. dust jacket, as issued. viii,326 pp.
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The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac And The Race To The West

By: Achenbach, Joel

Price: $4.50

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2004

Seller ID: 023455

ISBN: 0684848570

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Black and tan textured paper covered boards. Internal highlighting/underlining on pp. 164-168 only, else clean and as issued. Dust jacket shows very slight shelf wear, virtually as issued.
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Memoirs and Anecdotes of Early Days in Calistoga [SIGNED]

By: Adams, I. C.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Self-Published [I. C. Adams]: 1946

Seller ID: RS342

ISBN: B0007FV1QA

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

Original dark blue cloth, lettered in white. Published as bound typescript (copy), printed on rectos only, with b&w illustrations. [ii],51,5,6 pp., illus. Both covers show some scratches and surface rubbing, rubbed corners and spine extremities, with dampstaining evident along most of front cover fore-edge, extending diagonally across a portion of lower cover. Some toning to endsheets with mild dampstaining to front fixed endpaper only (not extending to interior), toned text block edges. Signed by author on front flyleaf, full signature with generic "Yours Truly" inscription, date...
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Memoirs & Anecdotes of Early Days in Calistoga

By: Adams, I. C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Calistoga, CA, Sharpsteen Museum Association: 0

Seller ID: 045991

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Stiff pictorial wraps. 109 pp. Very slight handling wear, nearly as issued. Reprints scarce original 1946 edition.
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Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats

By: Aikman, Duncan; Watson Parker (intro.)

Price: $4.75

Publisher: Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press: 1987

Seller ID: 029949

ISBN: 0803259115

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Stiff illus. wraps. Former owner's inked purchase note along top edge of half-title page, otherwise essentially as issued. xviii,356 pp.
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Coal, Cinders and Parlor Cars: A Century of Colorado Passenger Trains [Colorado Rail Annual No. 19]

By: Albi, Charles, R. C. Farewell, and William C. Jones (editors)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Golden, CO, Colorado Railroad Museum: 1991

Seller ID: 031740

ISBN: 091865419X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Black cloth, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Color pictorial dust jacket shows slight shelf wear, nearly as issued, now in archival mylar. 238 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs.
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Will James: The Last Cowboy Legend

By: Amaral, Anthony

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Reno, NV, University of Nevada Press: 1993

Seller ID: 029953

ISBN: 0874171903

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff pictorial wraps. Slight shelf wear, nearly as issued. Firm, square binding. Clean and unmarked interior beyond former owner's inked purchase note along top edge of half-title page. xiv,175 pp., b&w illus.
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Curtis' Western Indians

By: Andrews, Ralph W.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Bonanza Books: 1962

Seller ID: 008463

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Light brown cloth, slight shelf wear, a bit frayed at head of spine, slight binding lean. 176 pp., fully illus. w/ b&w photographs.
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Santa Fe Design

By: Baca, Elmo, and Suzanne Deats

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Publications International, Ltd.: 1990

Seller ID: 020439

ISBN: 0881767859

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

White laminated paper covered boards. Basically as issued. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket, approx. 1/4" closed tear at head of spine, now in archival mylar. 256 pp., illus. w/ color plates.
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A Report to the Citizens, Concerning Certain Late Disturbances on the Western Frontier Involving Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph and Geronimo Opposed in the Field By Forces Under the Command of General Nelson A. ("Bear-Coat") Miles (#291/600)

By: Baird, Major G. W. (W. H. Hutchinson, Intro.)

Price: $24.50

Publisher: Ashland, OR, Lewis Osborne: 1972

Seller ID: 003348

Binding: Buckram

Condition: Fine

First (limited) edition, red cloth, illus., illus. endpapers, publisher's booklet laid in, in original plain paper dust jacket, lightly soiled with title handwritten on spine panel. 67 pp. #291, hand-numbered, of an edition limited to 600 copies. Indian Wars.
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