Austin's Antiquarian Books: Western Americana
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Advantages of the City of San Jose California As a Manufacturing Center Published by the Society for the Promotion of Manufactures
San Jose, Ca, The Rosicrucian Press, 1990. Limited Facsimile Edition. Wraps. 16mo; pp; (x), 64, (vi), ads; illustrated with black and white views of buildings and a map; original slick red printed paper wrappers inserted into a black case with a facsimile of the printed wrapper on the front. This is a facsimile reprint of an original pamphlet published c1884. This copy inscribed by Mayor Susan Hammer c1995. Near fine .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 18528
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16.25 | JP¥ 3165]
Catalogue: Western Americana
Autobiography of an English Soldier in the United States Army
Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1986. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; lxxxiv, 354, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, and thirty-nine additional plates including two maps plus; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. "Ballentine's account of his years of Army service at "Ft. Pickens, Florida and with Scott from Vera Cruz to Mexico City in the Mexican American War;" Howes B-77. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 19178
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 2374]
Catalogue: Western Americana
Keywords: Militaria Mexico, Central & South America
Zealots of Zion
Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 317, bibliography; Illustrated, frontispiece and sixteen additional photographs plus drawings by Charles Hargans; brown cloth lettered in black, pictorial endpapers. A small stamp on a preliminary from the "Deseret Sunday School Union"; An overview of Mormon history and the settlement of Utah. Very good, partially uncut, a nice copy .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 18508
USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 42.25 | £UK 36.25 | JP¥ 7121]
Catalogue: Western Americana
Keywords: Mormons
Children of Ol' Man River, the Life and Times of a Showboat Trouper
Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1988. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; lxix, (i), 360, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, and thirty-one additional illustrations including two maps; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 19198
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.25 | JP¥ 1978]
Catalogue: Western Americana
Keywords: Maritime Performing Arts
My Experiences in the West
Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1970. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; xxxv, (i), 252, including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a frontispiece & eleven additional plates including a map and a large folding map at rear; dark blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a gilt top edge. Collins was appointed to run a trading company at Ft. Laramie, Wyoming. The right place at the right time. He would spend many years, exploring Nebraska, the Dakotas, Utah and Wyoming. His account is thoroughly engrossing revealing the West of the 1870's. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 19186
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 2374]
Catalogue: Western Americana
Ten Years in Oregon. Travels and Adventures of Doctor E. White and Lady West of the Rocky Mountains with Incidents of Two Sea Voyages Via Sandwich Islands Around Cape Horn
Ithaca N. Y. Mack, Andrus, & Co. Printers, 1848. First Edition, first issue. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, (i), 18-399; frontispiece portrait; full brown leather with a leather spine label lettered in gilt. Howes A-131; "White, fervent Prebyterian missionary and political propagandist, describes his trip out in 1842 and back in 1845, as well as his part in the civic organization of Oregon. Joints started but holding well, spine ends chipped, previous 19th century owner's name on a preliminary else a good or better solid copy.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 17730
USD 225.00 [Appr.: EURO 210.25 | £UK 180.25 | JP¥ 35607]
Catalogue: Western Americana
Colorado, a History in Photographs
(Niwot Co.), University Press Of Colorado, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; xiv, 266, index; approximately 250 black and white photographs, burgundy cloth lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket. A photo-essay that covers 1859-1991. Impressive. Very good/very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 17821
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 2374]
Catalogue: Western Americana
War-Path and Bivouac, the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expeditions
Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1955. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; lvi, 379, including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a frontispiece & eleven additional plates including two maps; dark blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a gilt top edge. Howes F-136; The Sioux War of 1876, Custer and more!. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 19175
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16.25 | JP¥ 3165]
Catalogue: Western Americana
Keywords: Militaria Native Americans
America Is West: An Anthology of Middlewestern Life and Literature
Minneapolis, University Of Minnesota Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; vii, (vii), 675; line drawings; terra-cotta cloth lettered in bluer in a pictorial dust jacket; Top edge of jacket chipped. A broad anthology, Schoolcraft to Garland, Derleth to Lardner and beyond. Very good/good +.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 19143
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 2374]
Catalogue: Mid-Western Americana
Marcy and the Gold Seekers, the Journal of Captain R.B. Marcy, with an Account of the Gold Rush over the Southern Route
Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1939. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiv, 433, (i), index, colophon; illustrated with five black and white plates and a large folding map at rear; terra-cotta cloth, top edge stained red, paper spine label lettered in black. A review copy with a nicely printed review card laid in; "The story of caravans of emigrants moving across two thousands miles of arid prairie to the gold fields of California.. spine label darkened else very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 18871
USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.75 | £UK 52.25 | JP¥ 10286]
Catalogue: Western Americana
The Great Buffalo Hunt
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; vii, (viii-xi), xii, 324, xii, (ii), bibliography, index, colophon; illustrated with sixteen plates including photographs and drawings by Nick Eggenhofer; decorated beige cloth lettered in terra-cotta, top edge stained red, in a pictorial dust jacket. A history of the near destruction of the American Bison and the social impact on the Native Americans in the West. Very good/very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 18458
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16.25 | JP¥ 3165]
Catalogue: Western Americana
Back Trailers from the Middle Border
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 379; illustrated by Constance Garland; pictorial blue cloth with red and gilt rules, top edge stained dark blue, gilt stamped lettering to spine and red lettering to upper board in a wrap-around pictorial dust jacket. The final installment of the Garland Middle Border Quartet. Near fine in a good or better dust jacket/jacket extremities are chipped, else a very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 18717
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.75 | £UK 28.25 | JP¥ 5539]
Catalogue: Mid-Western Americana
My Life East and West
Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1994. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; lxiii, (i), 417, (i), with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, and forty-six additional illustrations; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 19200
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.25 | JP¥ 1978]
Catalogue: Western Americana
Keywords: Performing Arts
The Railroad Land Grant Legend in American History Texts
(Cedar Rapids, Torch Press), 1945. Offprint. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 171-194; two maps; original printed blue paper wrappers. Reprinted from the Mississippi Valley Historical Review. Near fine .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 16596
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.25 | JP¥ 1583]
Catalogue: Western Americana
Keywords: Ephemera
A Frontier Doctor; Edited by Doyce B. Nunis Jr.
Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1979. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; liii, (i), 518, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait and twenty-eight additional illustrations including three maps; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Billy The Kid, Jesse James & Others. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 19204
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 2374]
Catalogue: Western Americana
Keywords: Militaria