Books about the West and California.
Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in red cloth with silver gilt titling on the spine. A scarce book about the newspaper business on the western frontier, which brought printing equipment and printers to the west. Both book and jacket are near fine, clean.....
New York: Duell, Sloane and Pierce, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in peach-colored cloth with red-stamped titling. A scarce book about western justice. A controversial figure dispenses justice where no laws were in place. Book is very good. Spine is cocked. Book is protected in a plastic cover. Top-edge.....
![Item #1159 The Soul of America: An Oregon Iliad [SIGNED]. Eva Emery Dye](https://librariana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1159.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745702473)
New York: The Press of the Pioneers, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in in orange cloth with gilt-stamped titling and decoration on the front cover. A near fine original edition which is square and tightly bound despite its age. In original good dust jacket which has some chipping and.....
Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1978. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover in light brown paper boards in dark brown cloth backing. "The extraordinary life and times of Fred Meyer Schroder, frontiersman and soldier of fortune, in California, Mexico, China and Alaska, including his discovery of the mysterious pyramids of Shensi and.....
Washington D.C. US Government Printing Office, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover in brown cloth with gilt stamped titling. An incredibly well-preserved copy of a scarce report from the US government. Includes colored map as the frontispiece. Pages lightly toned. Binding very tight and pages clean. Very collectable copy of an important.....
New York: Meredith Press, 1967. Stated First Edition. Hardcover in Purple Cloth. Ever wonder where the name of Coit Tower in San Francisco comes from? It was this lady - Lillie Hitchcock Coit - for whom the tower is named. This book tells of her life and loves - like.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1954. One Volume Edition. Hardcover in black buckram with gilt titling. Winner of the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes for history. The issue contains Volume I: "Indians and Spain", and Volume II: "Mexico and The United States". This copy is in very good condition.....
![Item #1123 Trans-Missouri Stock Raising [REPRINT]. Dr. Hiram Latham](https://librariana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1123.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1737948835)
Denver, CO: Old West Publishing Company, 1962. E.M. Schiwetz. Reprint Limited Edition X of 999. Hardcover in green cloth with stamped picture on cover and stamped titling on the spine. Reprint edition of an 1871 on winter grazing in the mid-west. Very high quality un-numbered edition which is one of.....
Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1972. Limited Edition #199 of 500. Hardcover in faux leather with ink-stamped titling on the cover. A near fine numbered copy, one of 500, of the diary of Basil Longworthy who came across the Oregon Trail from Ohio in 1853. This copy printed in WA.....
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1970. First Edition, Seventh Printing. Hardcover with green boards. 4to, 157 pp. A beautiful copy protected in mylar DJ cover. Former owner's name and date of acquisition (1973) on FFEP. Some light wear to the dust jacket with some sticker damage to the rear DJ.....
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover in light sage green cloth with ink stamped decoration and titling. An extremely well-preserved copy of a compilation of writings about the people and lands of Oregon and Washington. Fourth volume in the "American Mountain Series" from the Vanguard Press...
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1969. First Edition, Sixth Printing. Hardcover in sky blue buckram with blue stamped titling. Story of one girls covered wagon emigration to the west. This copy is near fine condition in a near fine dust jacket. A very clean, tight and square copy with just.....
St. Paul, MN: The Pioneer Press Company for the State of Minnesota, 1891. Second Edition of 10,000 Copies. Hardcover in 3/4 re-backed leather with original spines laid on, decorated with gilt devices and titling. A nicely restored set of these somewhat scarce state reports of the rosters and activities of.....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1969. Stated First Edition. Second Issue with the canceled title page. Revised title page with proper credits to the copyright page tipped in. 8vo., quarter dark green cloth, light green cloth over boards. In original dust jacket. Light wear, fading to binding. Age-toning to.....
New York: Random House, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in wine cloth-backed wine-colored paper boards with author's initials gilt-stamped on cover. Wallace Stegner lived throughout the West, including Saskatchewan, Salt Lake City, North Dakota, Washington, Montana, Nevada, and California. He was a novelist, short story writer, essayist, historian, biographer.....
Menlo Park, CA: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover in in pebbled red faux leather with gilt titling. One of the first biographies of Leland Stanford to focus on the person who was a railroad magnate, Governor of California and Philanthropist. Book is near fine in a very good.....
John Day, OR: Bob Watson, 1980. First Edition. Softcover paper printed covers. Over 100 stories of old time Oregon contributed by over 60 authors who were elderly at the time of the publication. Book is in very good condition with some shelf wear to the edges and a tear between.....
![Item #1178 Lola Montez: The California Adventures of Europe's Notorious Courtesan [INSCRIBED]....](https://librariana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1178.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747157304)
Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover in fuschia cloth with gilt titling on spine. A near fine copy of a very interesting book about a very interesting person. This copy is inscribed by the author with a very personal message to a beloved young person.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover in gray cloth. A very good original copy in original dust jacket, which is protected by a Brodart cover. Book chronicles the Mormon journey from the founding of the church to the 1950's. Book is in very good.....
Boulder, CO: Muriel Sibell Wolle, 1957. First Edition, 7th Printing. Hardcover in red ink-stamped titling and decoration on brown cloth. A large well-crafted book about the ghost towns and mines of Colorado. Book is very good with a slight lean and a gift inscription on the dedication page from 1959.....