Focal Impressions, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which "captures the romance of Nevada's past as seen by photographer Jeannette Kerr and her husband, geologist John Kerr.. . [it] captures Nevada's abandoned past which reveals a rich panorama of old ghost towns, lapsed mining claims, a daunting landscape and its living legends, the wild Mestengo horses." Illustrated throughout with full color photographs of wild horse gathers, old mines and stories of personal encounters with some of the early generation of miners and prospectors. SIGNED opposite the title page by both authors. Glossaries of horse terms and of mining terms, index. Oblong format. 180 pp. ISBN: 978-0980960303.

Washington, D.C.: Potomac Corral, The Westerners, 1970. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Monograph on the 1857 massacre in Mountain Meadows, Utah when 125 men, women and children were killed. Illustrated with photographs. Number 117 of a limited individually numbered and SIGNED edition of 250 copies. The Great Western Series, No. 8. 26 pp.

Rome, Italy: INSTITUTUM HISTORICUM SOCIETATIS JESU, 1954. Hardcover first edition - In addition to being a Jesuit missionary, Kino was a geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer. During the last 24 years of his life he worked in the Pimera Alta (modern-day Sonora in Mexico and southern Arizona in the United States) where he explored the region and worked with the Native American population, including primarily the Tohono O'Odham. He led an overland expedition to the Baja California Territory to prove that it was not an island but a peninsula. Index, 135 pp plus a supplement on glossy stock which includes black and white plates of the Kino's original documents plus a fold out map, complete.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - A continuation of the story of 'Hole in the Sky,' his highly praised memoir of his early life on his family's vast ranch in Oregon. This is part memoir, part travel book, ranging from New York and Venice to the ranches of Montana and the caves of Lascaux, and part a philosophical work on life, the West, and much more by one of our more perceptive and eloquent writers. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-679-43752-5.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thoughtful, sometimes passionate, and well-written memoir, about growing up on the Kittredge land - a ranch in southeastern Oregon as large as the state of Rhode Island - and about the loss of a way of life, and the idea of a new beginning in the West. Cover praise from Annie Dillard, Ivan Doig, James Welch and more. SIGNED on the title page. Map endpapers. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-679-411666.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover - A thoughtful, sometimes passionate, and well-written memoir, about growing up on the Kittredge land - a ranch in southeastern Oregon as large as the state of Rhode Island - and about the loss of a way of life, and the idea of a new beginning in the West. Cover praise from Annie Dillard, Ivan Doig, James Welch and more. SIGNED on the title page. Map endpapers. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-679-411666.

New York: Vintage Books, (1993.). SIGNED - A thoughtful, sometimes passionate, and well-written memoir, about growing up on the Kittredge land - a ranch in southeastern Oregon as large as the state of Rhode Island - and about the loss of a way of life, and the idea of a new beginning in the West. Praise from Annie Dillard, Ivan Doig, James Welch and more. SIGNED on the title page. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-679-411666.

San Francisco: Mercury House, (1996.). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. Essays on growing up in his bit of heaven - on his father's huge ranch in Eastern Oregon - and on the inevitable changes coming to the West now. 'Kittredge gives us not easy answers but a sustained meditation on what it means to be a Westerner today. The three essays in Who Owns the West? comprise both a celebration of the new West and an elegy for an old West that is fading.' 168 pp. ISBN: 1-562790781.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1987). A collection of 18 essays which look at the contradictions and myths that lie at the heart of the Western experience: male freedom and female domesticity, the wild and the tame, self-interest and love of the land. Kittredge grew up on his family's cattle ranch in eastern Oregon, so his writings - both provocative and thoughtful - are rooted in his personal experience. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-915308967.

San Francisco: Mercury House, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - Essays on growing up in his bit of heaven - on his father's huge ranch in Eastern Oregon - and on the inevitable changes coming to the West now. 'Kittredge gives us not easy answers but a sustained meditation on what it means to be a Westerner today. The three essays in Who Owns the West? comprise both a celebration of the new West and an elegy for an old West that is fading.' INSCRIBED on the title page to collector Larry Owens and dated in the year of publication. 168 pp. ISBN: 1-562790781.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the officers and ladies of the Army during the period of the Indian wars from 1865 to 1890. Much of this is based on the realistic descriptions by the popular Western novelist, Charles King, who was a captain in the Fifth U.S. Cavalry. Notes, bibliography, index. vii, 280 pp. ISBN: 0-806114401.

Santa Barbara: Bellerophon Books, (c 1978). Bilingual (Spanish/English) history of Alta California during the rule of Spain - about the missions, the rancheros, the Indians, the wars - written for older children. Illustrated with black and white drawings suitable for coloring. Large format paperback in full color illustrated covers, saddle-stapled. Unpaginated (50 pp). ISBN: 978-0883880562.

Los Angeles: Westland Printing Company, (1974). Hardcover first edition - Even in a city known for its characters, Joshua Abraham Norton (1818 - 1880) stood out - in 1859 he proclaimed himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States" and later he added "Protector of Mexico" to his titles. While he had no formal political power. he was treated deferentially in San Francisco, and currency issued in his name was honored in the establishments that he frequented. Among his numerous decrees were those calling for the construction of a bridge and tunnel crossing San Francisco Bay to connect San Francisco with Oakland. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 plates. One of only 300 copies. 66 pp.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. Hardcover first edition - Publication Number 201. Illustrated with 2 photographs, a copy of the original title page, and an original tipped-in leaf (pp. 159-160 of Cowan's Bibliography.) Sources. 63 pp plus colophon. Large format. Edition limited to 390 copies, designed by Lewis Allen and printed at the Anchor & Acorn Press.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co. 1977. Hardcover first edition - Lakeside Classic #75. Previously unpublished account of Robert Rose, who came to the frontier state of Wyoming as a young man in 1914. Edited and with an historical introduction by Gene M. Gressley.. Publisher's preface. Illustrated with a frontispiece, double page map and photographs. Index. List of Lakeside Classics titles. lix, 328 pp.

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co. (Lakeside Press) 1972. Hardcover first edition - The 70th Lakeside Classic: the first publication of two manuscripts describing 19th century pioneer life in Illinois and the Midwest and in Texas. Includes historical introduction, illustrated with maps and drawings. Index. List of previous titles in series. 290 pp.

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co. (Lakeside Press) 1954. Hardcover first edition - Lakeside Classics #52, Edited and with a long historical introduction by Milo Milton Quaife. An account of a journey between 1810-1814 - much on the fur trade, founding of Fort Astoria, a visit to Hawaii and the royal court of King Tamehameha, Falkland Islands, Columbia River, Native Americans in the area and more. Illustrated with maps and vintage prints. Index. liii, 312 pp.

Medford, OR: Klocker Printing Company, 1979 dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Russell J. Hogue. Traces the history of the first 50 years of one of southwestern Oregon's oldest and largest forest products companies. Double page map. Illustrated with many photographs, Endnotes. List of Medco's long time employees. xi. 167 pp.

New York: Random House, (c 1954). dj. Hardcover - A 'Landmark Book' for children, illustrated with drawings by William Moyers. The Landmark series is perhaps one of the best series of historical and biographical books for children from the mid-20th century, and they are especially remarkable for the quality of the writing - in many cases, a Landmark book might be the only children's book by an author who is considered an expert in their field. Index 182 pp. plus 2 pp list of other Landmark books. Illustrated endpapers.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The diaries of Larkin, a young, properous businessman from St Louis, who travelled to Santa Fe in the hopes of improving his health, edited and annotated by Barbour. with a foreword by Marc Simmons. Larkin travelled to Santa Fe in William Bent's caravan in the fall of 1856, and his diaries of the trip as a "tourist" detail his impressions of Plains Indians & New Mexican life. Includes appendices with newspaper accounts, some of his letters from 1866. Photographs, double page route map, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xvi, 202 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-11830.

St. Helena, CA: Vintage Image, 1977. First edition - One page histories of the various wineries, with full page drawings by Sebastian Titus.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1956.) dj. Hardcover - An entertaining first hand account of life on the frontier in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. "A true story of a young wife and the town she helped to build. . . The very young Mrs. Laune first saw the new town of Woodward, Oklahoma Territory in 1896, three years after her husband had set up a tent beside the strip of sand which was to be the main street." Illustrated by her son, Paul Laune, with line drawings throughout and full color illustrated endpapers. 256 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of the state of California with an emphasis on the trends and themes that have defined it, from the Missions and the Indians, to the Mexicans and the North Americans, the Gold Rush, the scandals and more - but still it remains a symbol of hope and reinvention. Illustrated with maps. Bibliography, index. 464 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-060125241.

Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1986.) dj. Hardcover - A handsome new edition of this book originally published in 1957, which has become a classic in the field of immigrant literature. This is an account of the author;s father, a Basque sheepherder raised on the Pyrenees in France, who came to the Sierras in Nevada as a young man, and who fifty years later returned to his home in the Basque country, only to discover that Nevada had become his real home. A title in the Basque series with a new foreword by William O. Douglas, the general editor of the series. Frontispiece by George Carlson. xx, 176 pp. ISBN: 0-87417-1148.

New York: Harper & Row, (1974.). A book originally published in 1957, which has become a classic in the field of immigrant literature. This is an account of the author's father, a Basque sheepherder raised in the Pyrenees in France, who came to the Sierras in Nevada as a young man, and who fifty years later returned to his home in the Basque country, only to discover that Nevada had become his real home. 186 pp.