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Field Operations of the Division of Soils 1900. Maps
(Whitney, Milton)
Washington, DC: US Department of Agriculture, 1901.
Price: $400.00
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3 volumes. 8vo. Volume I and its supplement were published by the Jesuit Historical Institute, Rome and St Louis; Volume 2 by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Citta del Vaticano. Volume I is A Catalogue of the Bandelier Collection in the Vatican Library; Volume II, 2 parts in one, is continuation as well as the original text and notes in French, and with a large folding map in a rear pocket. The third volume is a supplement to Volume I, and contains color reproductions of 30 sketches and 10 maps. All volumes are edited by Ernest Burrus, SJ, and the French text also notes the collaboration of Mareleine Turrell Rodack, PhD. Original grey wraps for the text volumes and stiff wraps for the supplement. Volume I has light soil on the upper board, else this is a fine set. Volume II has an unsigned inscription: 'This copy is for: To Dr. Madeleine Rodack for your superb cooperation' and is presumably from the editor. 'A Study of the Civilization and Conversion of the Indians in Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico from the Earliest Times to 1700.' Laid-in to volume I is an original photograph of the portrait of Bandelier used as a frontispiece, as well as several manuscript editorial notes.
A History of the Southwest (Vols. 1, 2 & Supplement) (Signed)
Bandelier, Adolph F.
St. Louis / Vatican City: Jesuit Hist. Inst. et al., 1969-1987.
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8vo. (xii),217,(1)pp. Publisher's green cloth spine, gilt; tan paper boards blocked in gilt on the upper board. Illustrated with 18 illustrations form photographs of which 17 are full page and ne is two to the page. Small abrasion on the front free endpaper, which has gone thorgu th epaper, neat ownership name, also on the fornt free endpaper, else a very good copy. Scarce collection of true stories about cowboys and peace officers in northern Arizona. Scarce. Adams, Herd, 211. Howes B156.
Tales from X-Bar Horse Camp: The Blue Roan "Outlaw" and Other Stories
Barnes, Will C.
Chicago: The Breeder's Gazette, 1920.
Price: $100.00
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8vo. 45pp. Printed stapled wraps. Ten little-known tales of early life in Arizona. Wraps lightly soiled else a near fine copy, and scarce in first impression.
Tales of Apache Warfare: True Stories of Massacres, Fights and Raids in Arizona and New Mexico
Barney, James M.
n.p.: n.p., 1933.
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12mo. (viii), 312pp. Map frontispiece of Eulalia Bourne's Arizona. Original printed cloth. A fine copy. Dustwrapper is similarly fine and not price-clipped. Reminiscences of the 1973 Woman of the Year who began teaching shortly after Arizona became a state in 1912. Rich in Southwestern lore and vivid in descriptions of Arizona's rural schools.
Ranch Schoolteacher
Bourne, Eulalia
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1974.
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First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. A fine copy. Dustwrapper is price-clipped; light wear at edges and with a tiny, closed marginal tear else near fine. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, with with a bookplate dated July 10, 1945, indicating that this is autographed copy number 34. Billed as the first novel written about Tombstone, Arizona and the town's historic Bird Cage Theatre.
The Bird Cage: A Theatrical Novel of Early Tombstone (Signed)
Brent, Lynton Wright
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, (1945).
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12mo. (8),13-251pp. Illustrated. Early, but not original, wraps. The first ten pages and the last two are missing corners from the margin (no loss). The wrapper is of early date and of yellow paper with the author and title in pen on the front; also there is a sticker from the New Era Book Store in Santa Cruz, CA. First two pages repaired at the upper corners and at the gutter, without loss except for the 'c' of 'copyright' on the title page; the wrapper has been similarly repaired; spine nearly perished; pp. (11-12) are stuck together; wrapper edges rough. Only a good copy of a scarce imprint. Signed by the author in pencil on the title page: 'Sol D. Rogers, Esq / Comps of Author' Six-Guns 296
Calabazas, or, Amusing Recollections of an Arizona 'City'
Brown, James Cabell
San Francisco: Valleau & Peterson, (1892).
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Father Kino: Priest to the Pimas
Clark, Ann Nolan
NY: Vision/Farrar, Straus & Co., (1963).
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8vo. 94pp. Stapled wraps. 89th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Document no. 11. With an epilogue by Hayden dated 1965. Fairly scarce compilation of extracts and references regarding the water supply on the Gila River Indian Reservatuion.
A History of the Pima Indians and the San Carlos Irrigation Prfoject, Compiled in 1924 by Senator Carl Hayden, of Arizona
Hayden, Senator Carl
Washington, DC: GPO, 1965.
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