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THE MEDICINE BIRD by Gerard
Curtis Delano, 1956 |
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GERARD CURTIS DELANO
original 1956 art print: THE MEDICINE BIRD, painted by
Gerard Curtis Delano. Dimensions:
14 inches wide by 11 inches in height.
Condition: fine. Guaranteed
to be an original 1956 print that was published separate from any other
Delano publication.
Delano
was born in
Massachusetts
in 1890; studied at the Grand Central School of Art in
New York
and worked as an illustrated in
New York
until 1919.
Delano
moved to
Colorado
in 1920, worked as an illustrator until 1940, and then modified his work
to become a painter. In 1943
he traveled to
Arizona
where he focused on the Navajo people and their culture.
Delano
died in 1972. Price:
$150.00
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WILLIAM
S. HART (1864 -
1946), actor,
writer, director, producer |
Both
books inscribed by Hart. |
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MY
LIFE EAST & WEST, Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin Company:
Boston and New York; The Riverside Press Cambridge; published in
1929. First edition. Illustrated by Charles Russell.
Inscribed by Hart, Christmas 1936. Near fine; no dust
jacket. Price:
$350.00
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THE GOLDEN
WEST BOYS SERIES, "INJUN AND WHITEY." Houghton
Mifflin Company: Boston and New York; The Riverside Press Cambridge,
1919. First edition. Illustrated by Morris H. Pancoast.
Inscribed by Hart. Near fine condition; no dust jacket. Price:
$350.00
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OVERLAND TO THE PACIFIC SERIES. THE STEWART COMMISSION AND THE DENVER PUBLIC
LIBRARY. 1932 - 1941.
All 8 volumes in very good plus condition to
near fine. |
COURIERS AND CRUSADERS (8 volumes). The Charles B. Voorhis Series
of OVERLAND TO THE PACIFIC. A Narrative-Documentary History of the Great
Epochs of the Far West
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Edited by Archer Butler Hulbert,
L.H.D., Litt.D., F.R.G.S. Director of the Philip B. and Frances C,
Stewart Commission on Western History of Colorado
College; Adviser in Americana, Denver Public Library |
VOLUME 1: ZEBULON PIKE'S ARKANSAW JOURNAL: In
Search of the Southern Louisiana Purchase Boundary Line (Interpreted by His
Newly Recovered Maps). Edited with Biographical Resume, 1800-1810, by
Stephen Harding Hart and Archer Butler Hulbert, Fully Illustrated.
Original blue cloth binding with gold print on spine; 200 pages, indexed; 1932;
Smith-Brooks Press, Denver. Discrete bookplate on front endpaper.
Near fine.
VOLUME 2: SOUTHWEST ON THE TURQUOISE TRAIL: The
First Diaries on the Road to Santa Fe. Edited with Biographical Resume,
1810-1825, by Archer Butler Hulbert, With Maps and Illustrations. Original
blue cloth binding with gold print on spine; 301 pages, indexed; First Printing
May, 1933; Smith-Brooks Press, Denver. Several discrete library
stamps. Very good plus.
VOLUME 3: WHERE ROLLS THE OREGON: Prophet and
Pessimist Look Northwest. Edited with Biographical Resume, 1825-1830, by
Archer Butler Hulbert, With Maps and Illustrations. Original blue cloth
binding with gold print on spine; 244 pages, indexed; First Printing December,
1933; Smith-Brooks Press, Denver. Near fine.
VOLUME 4: THE CALL OF THE COLUMBIA: Iron
Men and Saints Take the Oregon Trail. Edited with Biographical Resume,
1830-1835, by Archer Butler Hulbert, With Maps and Illustrations. Original
blue cloth binding with gold print on spine; 317 pages, indexed; First Printing
October, 1934; Smith-Brooks Press, Denver. Near fine. |
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VOLUME 5: THE OREGON CRUSADE: Across Land and
Sea to Oregon. Edited with Biographical Resume, 1830-1840, by Archer
Butler Hulbert and Dorothy Printup Hulbert, With Maps and Illustrations.
Original blue cloth binding with gold print on spine; 301 pages, indexed; First
Printing August, 1935; Smith-Brooks Press, Denver. Near fine.
VOLUME 6: MARCUS WHITMAN, CRUSADER: Part One,
1802 - 1839. Edited by Archer Butler Hulbert and Dorothy Printup Hulbert,
With Maps and Illustrations. Original blue cloth binding with gold print
on spine; 341 pages, indexed; First Printing July, 1936; Smith-Brooks Press,
Denver. Book in near fine; dust jacket chipped, overall very good.
VOLUME 7: MARCUS WHITMAN, CRUSADER: Part Two,
1839 - 1843. Edited by Archer Butler Hulbert and Dorothy Printup Hulbert,
With Maps and Illustrations. Original blue cloth binding with gold print
on spine; 342 pages, indexed; First Printing June, 1938; Smith-Brooks Press,
Denver. Book in near fine; dust jacket near fine.
VOLUME 8: MARCUS WHITMAN, CRUSADER: Part Three,
1843 - 1847. Edited by Archer Butler Hulbert and Dorothy Printup Hulbert,
With Maps and Illustrations. Original blue cloth binding with gold print
on spine; 275 pages, indexed; First Printing June, 1941; Smith-Brooks Press,
Denver. Book in near fine, some light scuffing on cloth; dust jacket near
fine.
Plus prospectus for the 8-volume series; and, a 1930 separate
reprint of "Trans-Mississippi West: Undeveloped Factors in the Life of
Marcus Whitman."
Price for complete set of books:
SOLD
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RECOLLECTIONS
OF A NEW YORK CHIEF OF POLICE |
By
George W. Walling, An
Official Record of Thirty-Eight Years as Patrolman, Detective, Captain,
Inspector and Chief of the New York Police. Illustrated
from Original Drawings and Photographs and
Historic Supplement of the Denver Police, By A.
Kaufmann
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Illustrated.
Specially
Issued for the Benefit of the Denver Police Mutual Aid Fund, 1890. Original brown cloth, embossed and gold-imprinted binding; 679
pages, plus 58 pages of Colorado advertisements in back of book. Book is
complete and in very good condition; endpapers have been replaced with exquisite
matching marbled paper.
Price:
$450.00 |
MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE by
JOHN CHARLES FREMONT |
Including in the Narrative Five Journeys of Western
Exploration, during the Years 1842, 1843-4, 1845-6-7, 1848-9, 1853-4. Together with a Sketch of the Life of Senator Benton, In
Connection with Western Expansion by Jessie Benton Fremont |
A Retrospect of Fifty Years, Covering the Most Eventful
Periods of Modern American History. Superbly Illustrated by Original
Portraits, Descriptive Plates, and, From the Missouri River to the Pacific, by a
Series of Sketches and Daguerreotypes Made During the Journeys.The Illustrations are Masterpieces of Darley, Hamilton,
Schussele, Dallas, Kern, Wallin and Others; Engraved under the Supervision of
J.M. Butler, with Maps and Colored Plates. Volume I (there was no Volume II).
Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Company, 1887.
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Original illustrated brown cloth binding; 655 pages, with
foldout map tipped onto back flyleaf. Condition: very good , bright, with
strong spine and clean pages. Minor wear to some cover edges.
What makes this volume different from the usual is that
contains 24 plates from the original 1845 edition of Fremont's
Explorations. Plus, the first original 79 text pages from the original
REPORT OF THE EXPLORING TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE YEAR 1842, and to OREGON
AND NORTH CALIFORNIA in the Years 1843 - '44 by Brevet Captain J.C. Fremont.
SOLD |
THE BUFFALO BILL
STORIES: A Weekly Publication Devoted To Border History.
Issued Weekly. This
issue:
Buffalo
Bill’s Desperate Strategy or The Mystery of the Cliff.
By the author of “Buffalo Bill.”
New York
: October 11, 1902. 30
pages. 1 page of
advertisements. Front and
back covers present. General
condition: good; chipping to edges of covers; binding reinforced in
interior; pages toned and chipped; otherwise complete and readable.
Price:
$75.00 |
THE ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY
NORTHWEST MAGAZINE, March 1892 |
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THE ILLUSTRATED
NORTHWEST MAGAZINE,
Devoted to Western Interests and Progress.
St. Paul
,
Minnesota
. E.V. Smalley, editor and
publisher. Issue: March,
1892, Volume X, No. 3. Original
illustrated wrappers; 48 pages. Dimensions:
approximately 13-1/2 inches by 10-1/2 inches.
Articles include:
Lower
Red River
Valley
, Its History, Progress, Climate and Products,
North Dakota
by H.J. Ross, illustrated with photographs; The New Minnesota Iron
District along the
Mesaba
Range
; On the Pend D’Oreille by Allison French; Mag of Cisco Junction;
Chief Garry of the Spokane Indians; and more.
Covers are in very good condition; interior pages are near fine.
Price:
$95.00 |
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