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Features: Gold Canyon - the true saga of a lost mine; The Tragic Ward Family - Lay Creek, Colorado; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Come Hard, Go Easy Country - Lost Horse Mine and Billy Keys; Jack Morrow - Road Rancher, Benton, Wyoming; Buck Jones - Hero; The Boom Days of Staging - California Express Companies; Oregon's Buried Tresure; The Courier's Ordeal - Brigadier-General O.O. Howard; Ruby - 8th in a series of 'Ghosts along the Yukon'; A Bank for the 'Little Guys" - A.P. Giannini and the Bank of Italy; The Mystery of Little Wing's Medicine Sack - did she has ESP?; Wild Old Days; Identify these objects!; Mexican Bullion on the Flying H Bar Ranch; Cowboys in Town - Thad Sowder at the 1902 Mountain and Plain Festival; Messages in Beeswax from a Missing Galleon - does this spot at the mouth of the Nehalem River mark the final destination of the San Francisco Xavier?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: The Cow Business and Joe Kirley; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Old Joe Bennett; The First Colorado Mountain Man - Jim Pursley; The Baking Soda Book - Luisa and Henry Benedict; Rice, Dice and Lichee Nuts - America was not the promised land for those who crossed the wrong ocean to get here - Chinese immigrants; Graveyard of Violence - the W.S. Ranch, just north of Alma, New Mexico; Idaho Volunteers and the Nez Perce - an uncovered report reveals how professional some local militia units could be; Licensed Murder - Captain William Byrnes; Deputy Marshal Joe Morgan of New Mexico; A Girl and Her Horse - Chief Plenty Coups invited young women to race, but they weren't supposed to win!; Battle of the Deschutes - sabotage prevailed in the railroaders' war for the key route to San Francisco - with fantastic photo of workers 'walking the plank' to get to work building a bridge 348 feet above the Crooked River Gorge!; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear as staples have almost torn free from covers, else a sound copy. Book
Features: Pete Kitchen's Road of Deam Men; Jim Baker - Forgotten Plainsman; Can the Gila Monster Kill?; Trailing the Horse Thieves; Hangman's Hill in South Dakota; Sen-nes or Curly Jim - Diplomat of the Spokanes; The Yocum Silver Dollar; Andy Adams, Author; Death in the Yellowstone; Holdup!; A Cabin on Price River; Buckskin Jim Cutler and his Montana Water Fights; Making Do; Wishart of the Oxcart Brigade; Wild Old Days; The Towns the Ghosts Forgot - Sacramento; Chili Bean the mule; Rosebuds and Whiskey and Whistling Springs; Land of Shalam - one of the world's least known religions. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Christmas at the Rocky Point Crossing on the Missouri in Montana; Devil Sam's Gold; Russell Watercolors Found!; The Nightmare of Old Folsom Prison; Half-Million Dollar Stage Coach Robbery - Jacksonville, Oregon and stage driver Jack Montgomery who would only stop for a blown up road!; Perils of Desert Treasure Hunting... and how to survive them! - snakes, bugs, scorpions, Gila Monsters; Mystery of the Sansbois - a taste of the supernatural; Retribution at Fort McLane - the four versions of Mangus Colorado's death; The Aerial Liner for the Forty-niner! - this airline never got off the ground; Child Bride of a Buccaneer - Jean Lafitte's Captain; Lovely old postcards; Wild Old Days!; Missouri's Possible Fortune in Silver?; What Happened to Edna Wilson?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Clay Allison & "Mr" Pecos; Spotted Wolf and the Dodge City Toughs; Agricola's "Waybill" - perhaps the world's most ancient and enduring guide to humanity's quest for gold; The Shoot-out - a mutual protection plan may have gone wrong; New Slant on the Murder of Julia Bulette, Virginia City, Nevada; Life and Confession of John Millian; Booger Red - the great rider; Jack Pickens - man with a secret, Summitville and the Little Annie Mine; Photos of Amelia Earhart; The Whistling Mail Truck - the Star Route out of Calhan, Colorado; Elizabeth Lochrie - painter of the winsome and the noble. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Great ad inside front cover for the Johnny Cash album, Bitter Tears; The White Red Men - Ollie Stewart; Frontier Barbed Wire; Where the Rain Gods Live - The land of the Acomas; Comanche Ambush - John Coffey; Mr. Arbuckle's Coffee - The Evil One - Harry and Theo Raymond; Saint in a Frontier Saloon - Thad Cole's Capital Saloon, Sheridan, Wyoming; With the Osages at Grayhorse; "Bustin'" the Wild Ones; Mexican hanging affair - Alberto Vargas; Bennett - first in the 'Ghosts along the Yukon' Series; Starving Out in Long Valley, Idaho; The Day the Road Blew Up - Sandy, Nevada; Colorado's Living Doll - Lady Blythe Vashti Marvin; Wild Old Days; Summering on the XIT; Castle Crags Treasure; The Captive Sisters. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Arizona in the '50's (first part); It's Death to Bonnie and Clyde - great photos; Sand Dunes of Gold - at Whiskey Run, Oregon; Wyatt Earp's Letters to Bill Hart; Did Edison get 'turned on' in Wyoming; Knights of the Wagon Yard - horse traders; Independence Day Murder - Park City, Utah; The Apemen of Mt. St. Helens; Point of Rocks - the Cimarron cut-off witnessed lots of trouble; Fort Lancaster - lower road to the west; Wild Old Days!; The Hermit of Ruby City. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: What was your name in the States? - the use of the alias; Gold Bars From the Barnard Express - a story from near Kamloops, British Columbia; Ishi - a most remarkable Indian; A Stranger Rode with the Posse - Bill Everheart of Grayson County, Texas; The Palm of a Three-Fingered Glove; Tragedy of the Moffat Road; The blood of a hundred men! - Tom Starr of Oklahoma; Livin' High and Layin' Low in the Toquimas - to try it, head to Manhattan, Nevada; The Best Darn Vacation I Ever Had! - When a Kansan drinks water from the Pecos he knows he's been somewhere!; Cantankerous a Man as Ever Lived - Amos Hill of Green River; Wild Old Days!; Old West Curiosa - photos; The "Trunkman" Mystery. Average wear. One inch opening at top of coverfold. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Sneak attacks and murder - Texas Ranger John Peavey harks back to bloody days on the border - Mexican bandits would derail trains; Mysterious Death at the Washita - Louis McLane Hamilton; Mrs. Henry Plummer - wife of a Philandering Outlaw Sheriff, Bannack, Montana Territory; Bronc Rider for Buffalo Bill - Harry Webb; A House by the Side of the Road - Alamosa Creek; Johnsons on the Chisholm Trail - ancestors of Lyndon Johnson; Orphaned by Black Hawk's Warriors - The Kuhre Family and Ephraim, Utah; Cable Car Genius - Andrew S. Hallidie - he showed San Francisco a better way to climb a hill!; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: The lamentable loss of La Reine Des Mers - a lost load of wine; New Mexico's most ruthless murder - Martin Nelson; Granby Idol - found in the Colorado River; Death on the Desert - Skull Valley; Treasure Trove and the Law - knowing if you'll be able to keep your find; Montana was not for farmers; Tales of the Dirt Tramps - road and highway construction; Shirt-Tail Canyon, California; Interpreter for the Apaches - George Wratten; Cave-Inn-Rock on the Ohio - hunt for relics here; White Collar Versus Black Ball - steamers that were lost; Wild Old Days!; A Rockin' Good Time - Gold finding tools; Discovery of Lone Tree Pass - Major-General Grenville M. Dodge. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Wild Indians of the 20th Century; Ever been attacked by an angry range mare? Don Bell has; The High Price of Strawberries - His Crimes began with Theft and Ended with Murder - Patrick Coughlin in Utah; True West Party - a gala gathering in the west; Sacred White Buffalo - Used in Secret Indian Ceremonies; Sarah Winnemucca and the War in the West (Northern Paiutes); Buffalo Calf Road - Indian Heroine - She Fought to Save Cheyenne Way of Life - a heart-rending story of an Indian woman who fought Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn; Terror in Central Texas - 15 to 40 Indians overtook the Riggs family, killed John Riggs and his wife and scalped them and carried off their two little girls; Forgotten Frontier Food - Part I; William Cary - Artist/Adventurer; That Crazy Young Man and His Flying Machine - Lyman Gilmore flew nine months before the Wrights - one of the most bizarre episodes to emerge from California's northern mines! Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Mountainman - Philander Simmons; The Gold that Floated - Jim Payson; Frenchy the Bronc Rider; Crazy Snake - the last rebel; The Double Life of "Easy" White - artist John White; "I have almost become desperate over the idea of dying a poor man - most cowmen faced that dread every day of their lives; A Family Letter Regarding the Youngers; Milt Hinkle - the great old cowboy; Wild Old Days!; Old Beaverhead's Point of Rocks - it dominated the state road to Virginia City. Coverfold almost fully open else average wear. Book
40 pages. Coverage of the coronation. Special coverage of Canadians at the Coronation; Nice colour ad for Kraft salad dressings; Coronation Extra - Story by O.P. Paterson; Art for the Great Day - Helen McKie is an authority on regalia; The Ceremony and its Meaning; Article on the Coronation candles made by a small shop in Mamaroneck, New York; Centerfold colour illustration of the Coronation Procession route; The Two (Queen) Elizabeths - part 3 of 3; Attractive full-page colour ad for Sheaffer's Snorkel pen - features hummingbird on dark background; Nipper cartoon by Dough Wright; Unexpected historical Coronation incidents; Full-page two-colour ad for BA and its Peerless motor oil; Elizabethan Cookery - The Gore Hotel in Kensington; N.H.L. Worried over Royal Reaction - Photos of the Queen and her husband at hockey games in Montreal and Toronto; This Duchess has Stamina - Mary, Duchess of Devonshire, Mistress of the Robes to the Queen; Half-page ad for M.G.M's fild "Young Bess"; Royalty as a Model, by Marcia Winn; Victoria Eighteen - story by Sholto Watt; Colour ad for Welch's Grape Juice on back cover; Super Coke ad on page 5 features boy eating burger. Average wear. Unmarked. Some chipping and short openings to bottom edges of some pages. A worthy copy of this special issue. Book
70 pages. Features: Traumatic tumbler tells all; The high risk road to treasure; how to pick a treasure-hunting buddy; The pearls of Concho - it's true, there is a pearl rush in Texas; Safe in doses large or small - a Rhode Island dump yields bottles; Don't give up - there's treasure to be found; Placer mining in the Arizona desert; Coler Gulch gold; Getting more out of treasure hunting; A few words about geodes; if you like variety in your diggin's try New Hampshire; Some Kansas ghost towns; Warm spring treasure - a Montana TH'ing spot; Quartz and Feldspar crystals north of Mohave California; Relic hunting Louisiana. Average wear. Book
Features: Brakeman on the Great Northern - W.S. Dulmage - long article with great photos; Lost Arch Nuggets; The West's Most Competent Mercenary - Emilio Kosterlitzsky; Dodging the Road Agents - an Oregon tale; Sixty Years ago on the Kootenai; You don't chase the wild bunch on a bycycle - bank robbery at Montpelier, Idaho; Old-time storekeeper - Civilization's advance scout - Thomas McGuill; Cheyenne girl and white man's ways - Amache Ochinee Prowers; Under the wing of the Raven - Temple Houston, youngest son of Sam Houston; All the news that's fit to laugh at! - Colonel Robert Lowery, famous newspaper editor of the Kootenays during the mining days; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
46 pages. Features: early day mail lines in Texas; Bits of Historical Information; a desperate hand-to-hand battle; John L. Goforth - a plow pioneer of Parker; six-shooters in the old southwest; a journey through Texas in 1856; taking the law to the Rio Grande; Baileys and Polleys among Earliest Texans; Noah Smithwick recorded Texas history; "I'll know what you're talking about"; Rangers' desperate battle with the Indians; John B. Hood - the man of courage; old Rockport Road - laid out by a preacher. Clean and unmarked. Undated - circa 1990? Book
Very Good German Original yellow cloth bdg. Large demy 8vo. (22 x 16 cm). In German. 104, [2] p. Strassenbau und Verkehrspolitik in der Türkei. Eine Studie über den Strassenbau der alten und neuen Türkei mit einem neuen Strassennetz. Road construction and transport policy in Turkey. A study on the road construction of old and new Turkey with a new road network. Signed and inscribed by Gökdogan.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, and tables in the text, title and following three leaves lightly spotted; black cloth, gilt back, fore-edge mildly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright, crisp copy of the maestro's first dedicated biography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., Second Impression, with numerous plates and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a month after the first edition.
152 pages. Features: A Manifesto for Earth; Return of the Plains Bison to the prairies and the return of honor; An ecological ethos in presocratic thinking - can we really learn anything new from the past?; The reflecting pool - place of the ten thousand things; Can universities promote an ecological ethos?; Archtiecture and the global ecological crisis - from Heidegger to Christopher Alexander; Art and the Big Picture; The Road past the selfish landscape; Philosophical urbanism and deconstruction in city-form - an environmental ethos for the twenty-first century; Biocentrism and the Bauhaus; An imaginary trialogue on abstract art - Kandinsky, Kupka, and Mondrian in conversation; For a dialogue on the future of abstract art; book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
Pages 301-346. Black and white photos. Features: The month in New Hampshire; As the road unrolls - some impressions of an early summer motor trip - feature article with great photos; Future policies of the Republican Party - Three New Hampshire leaders analyze the situation - a revival of party loyalty wanted, A party program, a forward-looking party; Polar caves - short article with photos; The day old chick industry in New Hampshire; The Road to Lariat; Three women who lead New Hampshire club work - Mrs. Clara Fellows, Mrs. G.E. Speare and Mrs. George H. Morris; An anthology of one poem poets; Gould Hill Farm - How a fine apple orchard grew from small beginnings - article with great photos; A gold mine in Jerseys - George M. Putnam's Herd of Champions - great article with photos; New Hampshire Necrology; Great full-page photo ad for Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. showing their No. 11 mill - the largest textile manufacturing plant in the world; Full-page photo ad for the Polar Caves; and more. Average wear. External soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
34 pages. Features: Cover photo of young deer nibbling the end of a rifle barrel!; How to Hunt What - Deer, Moose, Bear, Elk, Duck, Goose, Partridge, Pheasant; Dressing Out Your Deer - Kill Clean, Dress Fast, Cool Well, Cure Properly, Wrap Completely, and Enjoy!; Several nice ads by firearms manufacturers; Ad for Sisman's Bushmaster leather boots; Hunting Regulations; Ayers Wool Blanket ad; Choosing a Gun; After Lake Trout - What?; Hunting Dogs for Deer; Mallards Make it Worthwhile; New Ammo and Old Favourites; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 47pp. 'Island Hopping' issue of vintage and historic buses and coaches covering Guernsey, Jersey, the Scottish Isles and Sri Lanka. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The dustwrapper was designed by David Jones.
No marks or inscriptions. Very faint crease to lower rear edge, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint traces of handling and no bumping to corners. 128pp. A pictorial study of the American hot-rods featuring the massively souped-up and elaborately re-painted 1930s and 1940s cars which the Americans have so avidly customised - for fun and excitement
