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COLORADO.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1932. Hardcover - An informal tour of the state of Colorado, with various sections focusing on the pioneers, others on the Rocky Mountains and the incredible geography - the peaks, lakes and glaciers, and on Colorado as a land of legends. Illustrated with nine drawings by Paul Bringle. Appendix with a bibliography and miscellaneous facts. Index. xvii, 322 pp.
Condition: Good overall in orange cloth (some sunning to the spine and part of the front cover, embossed seal of previous owner, but overall a tight and straight copy)
Book ID: 67631More details Price: $15.00 -
MURDER IN BANDORA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery (following several romance and gothic novels), introducing Addie Devore, journalist, who has taken over the weekly newspaper her grandfather founded in the small Colorado mountain town of Bandora. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-802732402.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38311More details Price: $15.00 -
RISING FROM THE PLAINS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. A fascinating look at the geology of the Rocky Mountains, and at the history with which these mountains are infused. His third book on geology and geologists, a series under the overall title of 'Annals of the Former World.' 214 pp. ISBN: 0-374-520658.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 34708More details Price: $10.00 -
SIGHT UNSEEN: How Fremont's First Expedition Changed the American Landscape.
Edition: First printing.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - An in-depth look at how Fremont's report on his expedition in 1842 "altered American views of geography, progress, and the need for a transcontinental railroad as well as provoking the great migration to Oregon and providing an aesthetic justification for the national park system. By helping to shape the very notion of Manifest Destiny, the report became one of the most important documents in the history of American landscape." On this expedition he and a small party of men journeyed up the Kansas and Platte Rivers to the Wind River Range in Wyoming, a region known as the Great Desert. Maps and illustrations. Notes and index. xxix, 249 pp. ISBN: 978-0803238077.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 89378More details Price: $27.50 -
GRIZZLY TRAIL.
Edition: First printing.
London: Gollancz, 1984. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Tenth mystery in the series featuring mountain climber Melinda Pink. "Miss Pink encounters more than bears while travelling through the Rocky Mountains in winter." SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-57503503X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78434More details Price: $60.00 -
STARLIGHT, STAR BRIGHT.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Norris, Montana : Raven Publishing, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Illustrated by Pat Lehmkuhl. The third in a series about the mishaps and adventures of young Miranda Stevens and Starlight, the black stallion she loves and wants to own someday. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-9714161-25.
Condition: Fine (a new copy)
Book ID: 30371More details Price: $18.00 -
COYOTE IN THE MOUNTAINS and Other Stories.
Edition: Trade paperback original.
Boise, Idaho: Limberlost Press, 1989 (1991). SIGNED - The author's first book, a collection of nine interconnected stories, which together comprise "a fable of the New West, with Coyote drifting through the lives of domesticated characters in a resort community in the Northern Rockies." SIGNED on the title page. Designed and illustrated by Julie Scott. Issue 21 of the Limberlost Review. 102 pp. plus colophon.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83849More details Price: $28.50 -
TRAILS OF A WILDERNESS WANDERER.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983 (c 1970) dj. Hardcover - Autobiography of a man born in southwest Alberta in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, and who still runs a working ranch there - a look back at his life as a cowboy, broncbuster, trapper, guide, outfitter, rancher and wildlife photographer. Illustrated with photographs and drawings at the head of each chapter. xv, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-39444938X.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (stamp of previous owner, partially hidden by dj flap, edgewear to dj especially at the ends of the spine)
Book ID: 67889More details Price: $13.50 -
BAR B BOYS or The Young Cowpunchers, #1 in series.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Crowell, (ca 1914, c 1909). Hardcover - A story of life on a Western ranch - the Bar B Ranch is described as being 75 miles from the railroad in the Rocky Mountains. Illustrated by Charles Copeland with a glossy frontispiece and three internal glossy plates. Lists to #6, the last title in this series, in the ads in the back. 386 pp plus 3 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good only in tan cloth with an illustrated front cover - rubbing to the lettering on the spine, some soiling to the edges of the text block, gift inscription dated in 1915.
Book ID: 72848More details Price: $18.00 -
THE GRASS ROOTS PEOPLE: An American Requiem.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A tribute to the people of the Rocky Mountain West, in the plains, the valleys, mesas and mountains, written and photographed by Woods - and also a tribute to a dying way of life, that of rural America. Slightly oversized volume, printed on glossy stock, illustrated with many black and white photographs, illustrated endpapers. 174 pages.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (one closed tear on front cover and back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 13329More details Price: $28.00