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| THE ONLY PLACE WE LIVE. Wisconsin House, Madison, 1976., 1976. First Edition. Book. Oblong quarto cloth. 186pp. Lovely wood engravings by Frank Utpatel. Personal reflections on home places by three giants of regional literature. Fine in complete dj with several edge tears. Scarce. (#FTR086) $25.52
1906. Lefors, Joe. WYOMING PEACE OFFICER An Autobiography. Laramie: Privately Printed, 1954. Book. 2nd printing. Red cloth. 200pp. Illus. Appendices. Index. Much sought autobiography of the peace officer whose career was of the highest interest. He is perhaps most remembered for his part in the arrest & confession of Tom Horn, about which much debate continues to this day. This copy is a splendid, fine copy in near fine dj. No chips to the latter, & only a tiny edge tear on the back panel & some soiling to back panel. 6-guns 1315, Herd 1323, 150 #95. (#1003077) $117.45 1907. Lehrman, Frederic. THE SACRED LANDSCAPE (Signed). Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 1988. Special Edition. Book. The special slip-cased edition. Original pictorial & gilt-stamped 4to cloth (no dj issued with this edition) in custom slipcase with silk ribbon. 128pp. Fabulously illustrated with landscape photographs from famous photographers, mainly in color but some in b/w. Long & warm recent inscription to ____ and ____ & dated/signed by Lehrman. The selection was made by Lehrman and fully credited, & he wrote the original text, along with selecting verses from various sources. A paeon to "Mother Earth" and all that is beautiful in nature in the world. Fine in slipcase. (#SHEL715) $150.00 1908. Leigh Yawkey Woodson) (Birds in Art). THE LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM presents the 1977 BIRD ART EXHIBIT Honoring GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON. Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, 1977, 1977. First Edition. Book. Pictorial color wraps. 48pp. Illustrated in b/w. The second exhibition year catalogue. That year Sutton was the Master Wildlife Artist. Tiny nick top edge. Near fine. Scarce. (#5017053) $28.35 1909. Leigh Yawkey Woodson) (Birds in Art). THE LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM presents the 1977 BIRD ART EXHIBITION Honoring ROGER TORY PETERSON. Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, 1978, 1978. First Edition. Book. Pictorial color wraps. 64pp. Illustrated in b/w. The third exhibition year catalogue. That year the famed Peterson was the Master Wildlife Artist. Previous owner's embossed name and address (Tomahawk, Wisc.) top of front cover. Original "Suggested Donation $1.00" on top of cover, also. Else fine. Scarce. (#5017054) $36.45 1910. Leighton, Margaret. THE STORY OF GENERAL CUSTER. G & D, NY, 1954, 1954. First Edition. Book. Cloth. 179pp. Illust/Nick Eggenhofer. Juvenile account of Custer. Vg in dj with couple of short tears closed. Dykes 50 p130. (#0309091) $6.56 1911. Lembersky, Mark. MOUNT ST. HELENS (Association signed) Images of An Unexpected Landscape. Portland: Blue Heron, 2000. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Oblong 4to glossy pictorial wraps. Illustrated with fine and penetrating color photos, and some black & white, by Lembersky. Foreword by Sen. Mark Hatfield. This copy signed & dated upon publication by Phil Wikelund, who is credited in the first line of the Acknowledgments, "This book grew from a combination of Phil Wikelund's ideas..." Purchased with this copy will also be an 18pp, greatly abridged copy in full dimension wrappers format with same glossy cover photos & cover text. Thus, two items, each one fine, as new. (#SHEL352) $29.16 1912. Lence, Karen V. A HISTORY OF THE WESTERN BOOKS EXHIBITION If They've Got to Flap, Let Them Flap Splendidly. L. A.: Rounce & Coffin Club, 1978. Limited Edition. Book. Ltd to 250 copies. Decorated boards. 94pp. Appendices. Printed by Richard Hoffman for the well-known Western Americana book club. Fine. No dj as issued. (#1412077) $15.01 1913. Lende, Heather (Signed). IF YOU LIVED HERE, I'D KNOW YOUR NAME (Signed) News from Small-Town Alaska. New York: Algonquin Books, 2005. ARC. Book. Advance Proof. Pictorial wraps. 281pp. Signed by Lende. About Haines, Alaska, the author's "take on her offbeat Alaskan hometown (celebrating) life in a dangerous and breathtakingly beautiful place." Fine, like new. (#1003078ARC) $16.19 1914. Lentfer, Hank; Servid, Carolyn. ARCTIC REFUGE: A Circle of Testimony (Signed). Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2001. First Edition. Book. Pictorial wraps. 118pp. Map. Contributors bios. Chapter head vignettes. Signed by Lentfer. "This wonderful collection of testimonials truly brings home the natural beauty and cultural importance of the Arctic Refuge." Fine, like new in wraps. (#1104087) $16.22 1915. Lenz, Johann Maria. CHRISTUS IN DACHAU oder CHRISTUS DER SIEGER Ein Religioses Volksbuch und ein Kirchengeschichtliches zeugnis (Signed). Wien-Mauer: Libri CAtholici, 1957. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Red cloth. 470pp. Illus. Index of names. Signed on ffep, "Greetings from F. M. Lenz. "Printed in Austria" stamp on preliminary page. Near fine, no dj. (#SHEL694) $17.55 1916. Leonard, Irving Albert (Trans, Intro, & Notes by). THE MERCURIO VOLANTE OF DON CARLOS DE SIGUENZA Y GONGORA An Account of the First Expedition of Don Diego de Vargas into New Mexico in 1692. L. A.: Quivera Society, 1932. Limited/Numbered. Book. 1st printing thus of this edition, #243 of 665 copies. Tall 8vo cloth. 136pp. Illustrated with photogravures. Fldg map. Near fine. Vuivera Society Publication Vol. 3. (#1506071) $52.33 1917. Leonard, Willard. HORSE SENSE. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1984. First Edition. Book. 4to cloth. 128pp. Illus. Glossary. "Born in 1902 in the rugged ranch country of eastern Oregon, as a youth (Leonard) made his living as an 'oldtime cowboy'" In this book he writes of "his friends and family and especially of his work and the men with whom he shared his days..." "Growing up in Lakeview", "Stockmen of Eastern Oregon", "Oregon Indians", etc. Fine, like new in dj (one short back tear). (#SHEL419) $12.15 1918. Leonhardy, Frank C. TEST EXCAVATIONS IN THE MANGUM RESERVOIR AREA OF SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA. Great Plains Hist. Assoc, Lawton, 1966, 1966. First Edition. Book. 4to printed wraps. 72pp. Illust. Maps, Tables, Figures. A report submitted to the Nat'l Park Service incorporating artifacts of early American Indians. Fine. Uncommon. (#0711221) $18.00 1919. Lesley, Craig & Stavrakis, Katheryn (Co-Eds.). DREAMERS AND DESPERADOES Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West (Signed). Laurel/Dell, NY, 1993, 1993. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 532pp. Author Biographies. Signed by Lesley & Stavrakis. A collection of stories by Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Ford, Barry Lopez, Tess Gallaher, Amy Tan, Carolyn See, Linda Hogan, Ron Carlson, Ursula LeGuin, Kathleen Alcala, Rudolfo Anaya, Rick Bass, Mary Blew, Ron Carlson, Rick DeMarinis, Ivan Doig, David Duncan, Percival Everett, Molly Gloss, James Houston, Karen Karbo, Craig Lesley, Katheryn Stavrakis, James Welch,Terry Tempest Williams, & a few more. Moderate & even curl to fore edge of cover & first few pages, else fine. (#0508073) $29.52 1920. Lesley, Craig. THE SKY FISHERMAN (Signed). Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1995, 1995. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Cloth & bds. 304pp. Presentation copy signed & dated by Lesley soon after publication. Highly regarded novel set in Oregon, "Laced with the solace of the great outdoors and infused with the spirituality of Indians on the local reservation." Laid in is the publisher's promo with quote from Terry Tempest Williams. Fine, as new in dj. (#5010013) $28.35 1921. Lesley, Craig. STORM RIDERS (Signed). Picador, NY, 2000, 2000. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Hardbound. 339pp. Signed & dated by Lesley shortly after publication. Copies of several newspaper reviews laid in. "An extraordinarily moving tale... of an idealistic Caucasian father's agonizing relationship with his adopted son, a Tlingit Indian boy cursed with fetal alcohol syndrome and an abusive childhood. Fine, like new in dj. (#0805085) $28.35 1922. Lesley, Craig. STORM RIDERS (Signed). Picador, NY, 2000, 2000. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Hardbound. 339pp. Signed & dated by Lesley shortly after publication. "An extraordinarily moving tale... of an idealistic Caucasian father's agonizing relationship with his adopted son, a Tlingit Indian boy cursed with fetal alcohol syndrome and an abusive childhood. Fine, like new in dj. (#SHEL175) $19.35 1923. Lesley, Craig. THE SKY FISHERMAN. (Signed). Boston, 1995., 1995. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 304pp. Presentation copy signed & dated by Lesley in year of publication. The fine Pacific Northwest writer's 3rd novel, set in small town Oregon. Lauded by Terry Tempest Williams, Ivan Doig, & Barry Lopez. Fine, almost like new in dj which has a short, 1 1/4" scratch on the left side of the front panel. (#9601096) $8.86 1924. Leslie, Mrs. Frank. FRANK LESLIE'S SCENES AND PORTRAITS OF THE CIVIL WAR. FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR. New York: Mrs. Frank Leslie, 1894. First Edition. Book. Folio, 11 3/4" x 16 1/2". True first cloth bound edition. 480pp. Profusely illustrated with wood engravings and other types of print images, some double spread, some single page, and some multiple images on a page. The title page continues: "Most Important Events of the Conflict Between the States graphically pictured. Stirring Battle Scenes and Grand Naval Engagements, drawn by special artists on the spot. Portraits of Principal Participants, Military and Civil; Famous Forts; Pathetic Episodes, Etc., Etc. the whole forming An Authentic Pictorial History of the War, by such well-known artists as (extended list) with an introduction by Joseph B. Carr, Major-General. Condition: Re-backed with almost the entire original cloth retained over a new spine -- small loss to original cloth at spine ends. Otherwise original covers and endpapers with new binding that has tightened the text block and made this copy ready for another one hundred years of reference and enjoyment to the collector and researcher. Some pages have a few very short edge tears. There are four sequential leaves that inexplicably have chipped edges but the chips do not affect the images or text on those pages. There is a very handsomely written ownership signature & date in broad pencil on a blank preliminary page, "April 1, 1895 William K. Hayes Bridgeport, Conn." Gilt on the cover is very good. There is some general wear & the right edge area of the front cover is darker than the rest of the cover. The rear cover has considerable old moisture stain/bleaching, and thus is compromised visually, but is clean and stable. Very scarce now in the first edition. (#0811097) $465.75 1925. Lesser, Rose. TYPHOON AND . (Signed). More Joy, Kawasaki, 1982., 1982. First Thus. Book. 1st edition thus. Oblong dramatically printed red cloth. 228pp. Illustrated with black & white photos. Presentation copy signed & dated from Lesser, in large handwriting, taking up most of the ffep. Folding map. A book of photos & accounts of typhoons & storms affecting Japan. Fine in dj. (#5007031) $24.30 1926. Lester, Charles Stanley. THE HISTORIC JESUS A Study of the Synoptic Gospels. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 426pp. Index. fos. Laid in printed folder (4pp) from publisher, "Crown Theological Library" (list of volumes) & "The Theological Library Translation Series, New Series" (list of volumes). Moderate wear to extremities. Vg copy. Very scarce. (#THEOSHEL399) $105.70 1927. Levy, Lester S. FLASHES OF MERRIMENT A Century of Humorous Songs in America 1805-19905. Norman: OU, 1971. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Large 8vo cloth. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Fine in dj. (#SHEL880) $12.50 1928. Lewis and Clark Exposition). SOUVENIR OF LEWIS & CLARK EXPOSITION PORTLAND, OREGON June 1st to October 15, 1905. Frank S. Thayer, Denver, (1905), 1905. First Edition. Book. Very attractive oblong red & blue embossed, cord-tied wraps. 20 photos in various monotones, 6 5/8" x 9 3/4". The book is 10" x 11 3/4". "Phototype Illustrations of the Principal Buildings at the Fair Grounds, together with some General Views of the Great Northwest, Mountains, Big Trees and Rivers." In near fine condition with the covers very slightly faded near the cord, & with a bit of curl to the front cover fore corners. Scarce & highly collectable. OCLC (WorldCat) locates only 7 institutional copies of this item. (1905) (#0502093) $164.03 1929. Lewis, Alfred Henry. WOLFVILLE NIGHTS. NY, 1902., 1902. First Edition. Book. 1st edition. Lovely gilt-stamped pict cloth. 326pp. fos/date. More cowboy stories. Vg. (#8810099) $11.48 1930. Lewis, Dale. ROY HOUCK BUFFALO MAN. Ft. Pierre, 1992., 1992. Limited Edition. Book. Ltd to 250 cloth copies. 147pp. Illust. The Houck family settled in 1960 on 50,000 acres of the buffalo grass of Stanley County, South Dakota. This privately printed item is their story, especially about raising a herd of buffalo. It includes a chapter on the filming of Dances With Wolves on their land. Fine, as new, in dj. (#9705096) $32.80 1931. Lewis, Flannery. SUNS GO DOWN. NY: Macmillan, 1937. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Cloth. 226pp. Owner's printed name & her bookshop stamp in endpapers. She was Gertrude Mohr Murtha & ran a bookshop in Pike Place Market in Seattle. Also owner's label on paste down of W. G. Finck, Arroyo Grande, Cal. "... the story, half portrait, half memoir, of (Lewis') grandmother..." (Virginia City & Gold Hill). She was "one of the first respectable women to reach the Comstock Lode." Small scribble on paste down. Vg in chipped, but vg dj. (#1402085) $32.52 1932. Lewis, Kenneth R. (Signed). LITTLE BLUE WHALES A Novel. Krill Press, 2009. First Edition. Book. Apparent 1st edition. Glossy pictorial wraps. 302pp. Signed by Lewis on half-title. Publisher's promo card laid in. Fine, like new. (#P1004) $9.69 1933. Lewis, Oscar. SILVER KINGS The Lives and Times of Mackay, Fair, Flood, and O'Brien Lords of the Nevada Comstock Lode. NY, 1947., 1947. First Edition. Book. 1st edition. Cloth. 286pp. Illust. Vg in edgeworn, chipped dj. (#9111108) $19.68 1934. Lewis, Paul Owen. FROG GIRL (Signed). Hillsboro: Beyond Words, 1997. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Pictorial 4to hardbound. (33pp). Illustrated by the artist-author. Signed by Lewis. This is one of the most beautiful "children's illustrated" books I have ever offered. Great artistry, along with a spare story line that powerfully & authentically represents the totemic meaning of many Pacific Northwest coastal peoples. Primary motif has to do with the frog people & the "supernatural relatedness of animal people and human people." Author's notes in rear are masterfully written. Fine in dj. (#1307087) $30.02 1935. Lewis, Paul Owen. STORM BOY (Signed). Hillsboro: Beyond Words, 1995. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Pictorial 4to hardbound. (33pp). Illustrated by the artist-author. Signed by Lewis. This is one of the most beautiful "children's illustrated" books I have ever offered. Great artistry, along with a spare story line that powerfully & authentically represents the masks & "mythology" of many Pacific Northwest coastal peoples. An award winning book long out of print in the first edition. Primary motif has to do with the killer whale (Orca) people. Author's notes in rear are masterfully written. Fine in dj. (#1307088) $25.01 1936. Lewis, Thomas H. FORGOTTEN BATTLES ALONG THE YELLOWSTONE. Ramona, CA: Acoma Books, 1985. First Edition. Book. 4to printed red wraps. 19pp., including 5pp of text. Illustrated with drawings. A brief book noting petroglyphs & pictographs "scattered throughout Montana on remote cliffs and cave walls" which depict old Indian battles. Fine copy. Quite scarce. (#0903087) $20.25 1937. Lewis, William S. & Murakami, Naojiro (Eds.). RANALD MACDONALD The Narrative of his early life on the Columbia under the Hudson's Bay Company's regime; of his experiences in the Pacific Whale Fishery; and of his great Adventure to Japan; with a sketch of his later life on the Western Frontier. Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Spokane, 1923, 1923. Limited Edition. Book. 1st edition, ltd to 1,000 copies. Cloth with gilt-stamped spine. 333pp. Illust. Index, Appendix, Bibliography. Born in Ft. Astoria in 1824, MacDonald spent several years in Japan, but most of his adult life was spent in "mining and other ventures" in British Columbia. Ex-lib, but with only one interior stamp, no edge stamps. Pocket & label on front paste down. Call number on lower spine has been cleaned off & some coating to the cloth rubbed away. Upper half of front cover with faint dampstain. Faint dampstain near binding about one hundred pages into the book. Withal, a nice looking reading copy. Very, very scarce now. Tweney 46, Smith 6300. (#0205096) $147.62 1938. Leydet, Franqois (Ed.). TOMORROW'S WILDERNESS. SF, 1963., 1963. First Edition. Book. 1st edition. Pict cloth & bds. 262pp. Illustrated with b/w photos of "Oregon's Skyline Wilderness" by famed Oregon photographer Ray Atkeson, et. al., & with a portfolio by Ansel Adams. A Sierra Club book with a dozen or so essays & papers delivered at the Eighth Wilderness Conference, along with transcripts of the discussions (which included such luminaries as Ansel Adams & Wallace Stegner). Fos. Vg in rubbed, moderately edgeworn dj. Scarce. (#9808103) $32.80 1939. Leynse, Rev. James P. PRECEDING THE MAYFLOWER The Pilgrims in England and in the Netherlands. NY: Fountainhead, 1972. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Cloth with gilt vignette. 286pp. Appendix, "Passengers on the Mayflower." Bibliography. Index. There is a small stamped vignette on the front blank page, upon which the author has inscribed (to no one by name), "Place your hand in the Hand of the Lord of Eternity - James P. Leynse." Fine in vg pc dj which has a few short edge tears & a crease edge at the top of the front panel. (#LO1.013) $25.00 1940. Lida. FLUFF The Little Wild Rabbit. NY: Harper & Bros, 1937. Book. Not printing/edition stated, but same year on title page & copyright page. 4to cloth. Ex-lib. Translated into English by Georges DuPlaix. Good reading copy. (#SHEL581) $8.55 1941. Liddell, Ken. SOUTHERN ALBERTA'S 'ROAMIN' EMPIRE'. Calgary: Frontier, 1970. Book. Early printing, about 1970. Pictorial wraps. 64pp. Illus. Vg+. Good travel & historical description of several main highways/trails in Alberta: Trans-Canada, MacLeod, Dinosaur, Kananaskis, etc. Frontier Book No. 6. Small spots on lower back cover; still vg. (#1307089) $7.00 1942. Light, Douglas W. FOOTPRINTS IN THE DUST. North Battleford: Turner-Warwick, 1987. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. 635pp. Illus. Appendices. Index. Signed by Light. Saskatchewan River, Cut Knife Hill, Mixed-Bloods, Louis Riel, Poundmaker, & events before, during & after Battle of Cut Knife Hill. Extensively researched. Fine in dj. (#1302072) $65.03 1943. Lincoln, Abraham. DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS A Lecture by Abraham Lincoln Delivered in 1860. S. F.: John Howell, 1915. Limited Edition. Book. Ltd to 1,000 copies. Gilt-stamped purple paper over boards. Unpag. Inscribed in 1922 in Seattle by Publisher Howell to Max Miller (very likely the author of the popular book, "I Cover The Waterfront"). Laid in typed note on imprinted paper of bookseller George Tweney stating that this book was "printed under the direction of John Henry Nash..." Fading, as expected, to cover borders. Else fine. No dj as issued. (#1209096) $40.52 1944. Linderman, Frank B. INDIAN OLD-MAN STORIES More Sparks From War Eagle's Lodge-Fire. Charles Scribners Sons, NY, 1920, 1920. First Edition. Book. Pictorial cloth. 169pp. Illustrated with color plates & b/w pen & ink sketches by Charles M. Russell. Small ink inscription top of front paste down, & pencil fos/date on ffep. Moderate soiling & a few small stains on front cover. Minor wear to extremities. Good+. Y-R p17. (#0606097) $98.42 1945. Linderman, Frank B. INDIAN WHY STORIES Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1915, 1915. First Edition. Book. Pictorial cloth. 236pp. Illustrated with wonderful color plates & b/w pen & ink sketches by Charles M. Russell. Back cover waterstained. Reading copy only. Y-R p15. (#0606098) $49.21 1946. Linderman, Frank Bird. (Dempsey, Hugh A., Intro.). WOLF AND THE WINDS. Norman: OU, 1986. First Edition. Book. 1st edition. Hardbound. 215pp. This book is Linderman's previously unpublished account, "somewhat fictionalized", of the Gros Ventre leader. Linderman "knew him, admired him, & mourned his passing." Fine, as new in dj. (#SHEL866) $11.50 1947. Lindsay, Vachel (Harris, Mark, Edit. & Intro). SELECTED POEMS OF VACHEL LINDSAY. Collier, NY, 1967., 1967. First Edition. Book. 1st Collier Books Edition. Pictorial wraps. 210pp. Fine. (#FTR024) $6.05 1948. Lindsay, Vachel. GOING-TO-THE-SUN A Book of Pictures and Verses. D. Appleton, NY, 1923, 1923. First Edition. Book. 1st edition. Attractive gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. 101pp. Illustrated with drawings by Lindsay. Presentation inscription, not by the author, but from Spokane (briefly the home of the troubled Illinois poet). Pencil fos. Fine in scarce dj, some staining on back of same, & with chips to head/toe of spine & couple of other places. The author's poems inspired by his tramp through the Rockies with a friend. (#0306087) $52.49 1949. Lindsay, Vachel. THE GOLDEN WHALES OF CALIFORNIA and other rhymes in the American language. (Association copy). NY, 1920., 1920. First Edition. Book. Decorated small 8vo cloth. 181pp. Glued on the front paste down, the ffep, its verso, & the blank preliminary page are clippings regarding Lindsay, & also one original photograph of the famous Illinois poet with two friends. The photo (2 1/2" x 3 1/8", corner clipped) is of Lindsay & a family in Idaho looking upon some wildflowers with a hand written caption under it & the owner's signature above it. The clipping (taped , not glued) on the verso is an obituary of Lindsay's widow. Another clipping, folded, is a eulogy of Lindsay, himself. Other than the affixing of the extra items, a vg copy & nice association item. (#0205098) $55.77 1950. Lindsey, Robert. A GATHERING OF SAINTS: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1988. First Edition. Book. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 397pp. Illus. Index. Account of what was behind the Salt Lake City bombings in 1985. The slightest of fading at top of covers, barely worth mentioning. Fine in dj. (#1402087) $9.50 1951. Linduska, Joseph P. (Ed.) (Signed). WATERFOWL TOMORROW. Wash. D.C.: U.S. Dept of the Interior, 1964. First Edition. Book. Gilt-pictorial cloth. 770pp. Illus. "About the Contributors." Acknowledgments. Index. Folding map, "Names and Places North American Wildfowl". Nice presentation signed & dated in 1973 by Linduska to famed Michigan wildlife artist, Lee Le Blanc, "To Lee Le Blanc -- one of America's greatest wildlife artists -- with warmest regards & best wishes. Joe Linduska Wash. D.C. 7-20-73". Fine. No dj. (#5001116) $60.75 1952. Linford, Velma (Signed). WYOMING: FRONTIER STATE. Denver: Old West Pub Co., 1947. First Edition. Book. Pictorial cloth. 428pp. Illus. Maps. Appendix: State & Terr. Officers, Statistical Chart, Chronology, Bibliography, Index. Pictorial endpapers. 8 line inscription on front blank page to Mrs. Elliott Todhunter Dewey, "who has introduced so many authors so beautifully..." signed & dated by Linford in early 1948. Another owner's signature top of front blank page. Affixed to verso of ffep is a very attractively printed pictorial promotional folder for the book. Includes bio of Linford, chapters in the book, etc. Linford studied under a famous group of historians: Grace Hebard, LeRoy Hafen, Frederic Paxson, & Herbert Bolton. This book was a textbook for 7th - 9th graders, but it was written & published in a time when that age group had meaty material to study, & this one is not only meaty, but engagingly written. Railroads, Gold seekers, Yellowstone, Johnson County War & Tom Horn, Indians, Missionaries, Ranching & Ranchers, etc.. Rare bookman & publisher, Fred Rosenstock published this book &, as Linford acknowledges, "permitted me to use his library of rare volumes and to reproduce rare items from his personal collection." Couple of thin ink black streaks on front cover, but not very distracting. Vg. No dj. Herd 1336, 6-guns 1338. (#1003080) $52.65 1953. Link, Aaron Raz, and Hilda Raz. 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