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Large 4to. Original half maroon leather. Spine ruled in gilt with gilt titles. Marbled paper boards in a non-pareil pattern. Contains the reports on various routes, including the route from the Rio Grande and the Pimas as well as the route lying between the mouths of the San Pedro and Gila Rivers. Illustrated with colored aquatints. Some light foxing and occasional light damp staining. A good copy in a very good Binding. See Howes P3, Cowan, p. 512. House Document No. 91.
Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the ... Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
(Pacific Railroad Survey - Vol. 2)
Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1855.
Price: $350.00
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24 folding maps of various sizes to accompany the written report and housed in a chemise and slipcase. The cloth of the case is worn on the surface, and has been nearly invisibly reinforced at the spine, else in very good condition and sturdy. The folding chemise has a small library stamp else in very good condition. The 24 maps are in near fine to fine condition; no markings were noted. The maps are of areas in Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, Utah, Arizona (Tempe, Phoenix & Buckeye) and California (Fresno and Santa Ana).
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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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.
Price: $100.00
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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).
Price: $150.00
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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).
Price: $250.00
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Father Kino: Priest to the Pimas
Clark, Ann Nolan
NY: Vision/Farrar, Straus & Co., (1963).
Price: $125.00
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Oblong 4to. 160pp. Photographs by Helga Teiwes-French. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. Original blue cloth blocked with titles in silver; grey endpapers. A near fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price clipped; it is lightly rubbed in places else a very good copy. Warmly inscribed on the half-title by the author: "Something very Special -- for my special people ... " Important resource on Spanish Colonial art. Later reprinted by the University of New Mexico in a different format, copies of this first printing by the UofA are becoming hard to find.
Mexican Folk Retablos (Signed)
Giffords, Gloria Kay
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1974).
Price: $200.00
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Small 4to. (xx), 289pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and maps. Original beige cloth, gilt titles. Index. Bibliography, A fine, bright copy. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped; it is fine as well. Possibly the most complete study to date of the folk architecture of a tribal society.
Navajo Architecture: Forms, History, Distributions
Jett, Stephen C., and Virginia E. Spencer
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1981).
Price: $150.00
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4to. Two volumes. x,(2),513;x,(2)556pp. Original black cloth, gilt titles. Illustrated with maps. A documentary history. Volume Two, Part One deals with the Californias and Sinaloa-Sonora from 1700-1765; Volume Two, Part Two deals with The Central Corridor and the Texas Corridor from 1700-1765. Issued without dustwrapper. Fine copies.
The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain ... Volume Two, Parts One and Two
Polzer, Charles W., SJ, Thomas E. Sheridan; Diana Hadley, Thomas H. Naylor & Mardith K. Schuertz-Miller
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1997).
Price: $175.00
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4to. xvi,252pp. Illustrated with 40 plates in full color, 25 line drawings, and one map. Original brick-colored cloth spine and tan-colored cloth sides, block in black with titles and designs. Patterned endpapers. Bibliography. Designed by Samuel T. Farquar and A. R. Tommasini, and with the color plates printed from rubber blocks cut by hand by Jean Goodwin and Arthur Ames. Spine lightly sunned else a fine copy. In original slipcase of blue cloth with printed spine label, the case worn at the edges else very good. And with the original prospectus for the edition laid in.
Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians: Their Evolution, Fabrication, and Significance in the Prayer Drama
Roediger, Virginia More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941.
Price: $250.00
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Oblong 4to. viii,216pp. Original red cloth, gilt titles. Foreward by Senator Barry Goldwater and Preface by Donald K. Buffmire, MD. Illustrated with photographs. Index. A fine copy. Matching slipcase of red cloth, gilt title is fine as well. Story of the Flinn Foundation and how it helps ways to conquer dead diseases.
The Flinn Legacy
Smith, Dead
Phoenix: The Flinn Foundation, (1996).
Price: $100.00
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Thick small 4to. viii, 9-775pp. Illustrated with full page engravings. Original full embossed leather, spine blocked in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Orginally published in 1858, and many times reprinted, this edition has been expanded & includes sections on the Pacific Railroad and Alaska. Leather lightly rubbed; a very good copy. The compilation is in two broad sections. The first was formed from excerpts from the accounts of various travelers and explorers. The second section, a 'View of the States', treats in topical order all of the states west of the Alleghenies. For the earlier editions, see Graff 4462; Howes V43; Wagner-Camp 312.
Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures, or, Life in the West ... A View of the States and Territorial Regions ....
Van Tramp. John C.
Columbus: Segner & Condit, 1870.
Price: $175.00
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