Washington, D.C: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848. First edition, House issue, later printing (gatherings 2 & 9 with Senate issue running head). An acceptable copy of these important accounts of the southwest, made by Emory and Abert as part of Gen Kearny’s passage through what was then northern Mexico... Read More about Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, In...

[ El Rancho Bonito, Arizona: Evans School], 1912. Miscellany of poetry and photographs of school life. Among the 17 students of the Evans School at El Rancho Burrito in this year were Louis Gordon Hamersley, Archibald Bullock Roosevelt, and Thomas Archer Morgan. Read More about The Crib 1912

San Felipe de Austin: : Printed by G.B. Cotten, 1829. A Certificate of Admission to Austin's Colony: One of the Earliest Obtainable Texas Imprints. A rare imprint from the San Felipe de Austin press of Godwin Brown Cotten, an original certificate of admission to Austin's colony. "These grants were the... Read More about El Ciudadano Estevan F. Austin, Empresario, Para Introducir Emigrados Estrangeros, En Las...

Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1914. Prints important documents in English translation on the history of the Southwest never before published. Read More about Athanase de Mezieres and the Louisiana-Texas Frontier 1768 - 1780: Documents Published for the...

Cleveland, Ohio: The Bird Research Foundation, 1951. First edition. Read More about Arizona and Its Bird Life. A Naturalist's Adventures with the Nesting Birds on the Deserts,...

Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 2001. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 26 copies, signed by the author, with additional portfolio of 4 signed photographs. Lively, well written account of tarpon fishing from Key West and Texas to Belize and Venezuela. Read More about Megalops. An Angler's Affair with Tarpon

Richmond [VA]: Everett Waddey Co, 1911. First edition. Read More about The Journal of Julia LeGrand. New Orleans 1862-1863

[New Castle, Delaware: 1842]. A charming group of ink and wash drawings by the talented artist and United States Navy Lieutenant, John B. Dale. Only one of the drawings is titled, but they all show scenes along a river, presumably the Suwanee in southern Georgia or northern Florida, and two... Read More about ORIGINAL INK DRAWING OF NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, BY UNITED STATES NAVY LIEUTENANT JOHN B. DALE

Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1950. First edition. With Dobie's bookplate and a TLS from Dorothy Hayner telling about this copy. Read More about The Ben Lilly Legend

Boston: George R. Holbrook & Co, 1848. Twelfth Edition. The author, a clerk on a steamboat and then a Mexican War Volunteer, was captured by Canales' band of Guerillas and experienced a rigorous Captivity. He describes the wretched internal conditions, incidents of the War, his final escape and perilous return... Read More about Adventures in Mexico; Experienced During a Captivity of Seven Months

July 9, 1938. "To Alfred Eisenstaedt / with admiration for his / art and appreciation for his / comradeship / Jonathan Daniels / Raleigh, N.C. July 9, 1938"Daniels was editor the Raleigh, North Carolina, News and Observer. In 1938 he published his account of a ten-state tour of the South... Read More about Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852. First edition, second issue. "The standard account of the financial history of the Texas Revolution, this book is much more interesting reading than the title suggests, mixing humor, anecdotes, and historical sidelights with statistics, finance, and fiscal theory ... Although the Texans did not... Read More about The Fiscal History of Texas. Embracing an Account of Its Revenues, Debts, and Currency, from the...

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1922]. First edition, G-W (July 1922) on copyright page. Inscribed, in Presentation Binding. Tales of outdoor travel and hunting in the West: Colorado, Arizona, and California. Inscribed by the author on first blank, in his characteristic purple ink, "To Edna from Zane Gray Christmas 1923" Read More about Tales of Lonely Trails