Bell, Horace, edited by Lanier Bartlett, On the Old West Coast: Being Further Reminiscences of a Ranger. William Morrow and Co, New York, .1930. [xiv] 1-336 pages, 6 ¼” x 9 ½” . Grey cloth covered boards, paste-on title in red on front cover and spine, lacks dust jacket. First edition, trade issue. Good but faded copy. Previous […]
Erle Stanley Gardner, The Desert is Yours
Gardner, Erle Stanley, The Desert is Yours, William Morrow, New York, 1963, [1]-256 pages, 9 ½” x 6”, brown cloth covered boards, black stamped spine title and cactus on front cover. First Edition, very fine in very fine dust jacket. A spirited account of adventure in the present-day American desert by the famous mystery writer. $60
Robert Silverberg, Mound Builders of Ancient America
Silverberg, Robert, Mound Builders of Ancient America, Greenwich, New York Graphic Society, [1968]. [xii], [1]-369 pages, 10 ¼ “ x 7 “, red cloth-covered boards. First Edition, a good to very good copy in a dust jacket that has seen better days. Silverberg’s focus is not so much on the Mound builder but rather on the effect of […]
Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, Pearl Harbor
Wallin, Vice Admiral Homer W., USN (Retired), PearlHarbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage andFinal Appraisal, with a Foreward by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller, USN, Director of Naval History. Washington, Naval History Divison, 1968. [xv], [1]-377, 10” x 7”. Blue cloth over boards, gold stamped titles and Navy seal, no dj as issued. Fine, first edition. The official Navy […]
Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American
Sack, Albert, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American. New York, Crown Publishers, 1950. [xvi], 303 pages. 10”x 7 ½ “. Cloth covered boards. Fine without a dust jacket. First edition, signed by the author and with a presentation signed by the author’s father who wrote the introduction to the book. Everything you ever wanted to know about early […]
Earl R. Smith, The Days of my Years
Smith, Earl R. The Days of my Years, The Autobiography of an Average American. 1968, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR. [xiv] 1-324, paperback, 5 ½” x 8 1/2’”. Near fine. First edition. Born in 1882 in Colorado, Smith lived most of his life on the west coast, both in California and Oregon, doing everything from mining gold to […]