JOHNNY OSAGE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 288 pgs, endsheets decorated with maps. The story of a frontiersman in Oklahoma in the 1820s. More
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THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY.
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1952. Book Club. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 307 pgs, drawings by author. Lea's well known and very excellent novel of the El Paso region during the Apache Wars era. More
JUAN ARROYOS, 1819-1876.
Santa Clara, NM: Village of Santa Clara, 2013. First edition. Paperback Spiral Bound. 8 1/2 x 11, 24 pgs, b&w historical photos. The story of this heretofore unknown New Mexico volunteer soldier, spy, U.S. Army Guide & Scout, and Central City (southwestern New Mexico) resident. More
RIDING THE WHITE HORSE HOME.; A Western Family Album.
New York: Pantheon, 1993. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 219 pgs, b&w photos. A woman's memoir of her family ranch in Montana, bought and started by her great-grandfather in 1887 and sold by her father, under the economic pressures that have made ranching a dying way of life, four..... More
A DYNASTY OF WESTERN OUTLAWS.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 384 pgs, index, biblio, illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund, decorated endpapers. Interesting look at the inter-related families of western Outlaws - the James, Youngers, Shirleys, Starrs, Daltons, etc. and their famous doings. More
GREAT ROUNDUP.; The Story of Texas and Southwestern Cowmen.
New York: Castle Books, 2001. Later printing. Hardcover. Originally published in 1955. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 288 pgs, index, b&w drawings/photos. Based on the records of the Cattlemen's Associations, this is the history, in story form, of the cattle industry in the Southwest, told with focus on significant characters..... More
WILLARD J. PAGE; Artist on the Southwest Road 1885-1958
Tucson, AZ: Sanpete Publications, 2020. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 10, 80 pgs, b&w and color photos throughout. An interesting look at the life of this litte known Arizona artist. More
BUCKS I HAVE TAKEN; (And Bucks That Got Away)
Kingman, AZ: Deer Hunter Enterprises, 1988. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 175 pgs, b&w photos, decorated endsheets. Where and how to hunt, and stories of hunting mule deer, whitetail, Columbian blacktail, Sitka blacktail, and Coues whitetail deer. More
THE COWBOY; An Unconventional History of Civilization on the Old-Time Cattle Range
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1979. First, thus. Paperback. Originally published in 1922. 5 1/2 x 8, 402 pgs, section of b&w photos. A detailed social history of the manners, customs, and daily routine of the men who herded cattle in the late nineteenth century. More
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME; A Novel
New York: Doubleday, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 226 pgs. A novel with wrenching emotional moments chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose..... More
WITTGENSTEIN'S POKER; The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers.
New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 7, 340 pgs, index, chronology, b&w photos. An engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography, and literary detection. The ten minute argument between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper in Cambridge, England on October 25, 1946. More
TWENTIETH-CENTURY BEATIARY.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. Second printing. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 240 pgs. 24 articles on the curious and wonderful inventions of real or imagined animals. Ex-library, rebound, with the usual markings. More
TWELVE MEN OF ACTION IN GRAECO-ROMAN HISTORY.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1952. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 108 pgs, index. Twelve vivid vignettes of men who grappled with issues in their own time that have parallels today. More
WITNESSES FROM THE GRAVE; The Stories Bones Tell.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. 4 x 7, 322 pgs, section of b&w photos. Interesting account of forensic medicine and the information that can be gleaned from skeletons. Many case studies. More
OLIVE LEAF EXTRACT; Nature's Antibiotic
New York: Kensington Books, 1997. Later printing. Mass Market Paperback. 4 x 7, 223 pgs. Details a compound taken from olive leaves called Oleurupein that provides disease resistant properties and that is effective in treating such afflictions as HIV, Herpes, influenza, sore throats, pneumonia, infections, and much more, in an..... More
SHOOT LOW, BOYS - THEY'RE RIDIN' SHETLAND PONIES; In Search of True Grit
New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. First, thus. Paperback. 4 x 7, 233 pgs. Humor. "Like...a Southern Garrison Keillor with some Charles Kuralt thrown in." More
THE TIGHTWAD GAZETTE III; Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
New York: Villard Books, 1996. Hardcover. 7 x 9, 272 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. The final edition: achieving financial independence, staying out of debt, smart food shipping, the universal casserole recipe, gift giving in a tightwad utopia, selling your own home, power yard saling and more. More
THE TIGHTWAD GAZETTE II; Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
New York: Villard Books, 1995. Hardcover. 7 x 9, 293 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. All new help and hints from The Tightwad Gazette's third and fourth years. Penny-pinching pizza, car maintenance tips, how to make a solar box cooker, frugality and the economy, warehouse clubs and savings, budgeting and keeping..... More
THE TIGHTWAD GAZETTE; Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
New York: Villard Books, 1992. Hardcover. 7 x 9, 307 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. Having discovered that frugality is good for the bank account and the environment, the author started a newsletter for skinflints in 1989. Within a year, 50,000 cheapskates had subscribed to The Tightwad Gazette. Now she has..... More
THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA; A Natural History of Four Meals
New York: Penguin Books, 2006. Later printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 450 pgs. An ecological and anthropological study of eating offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of everyday consumers to protect their health and the environment..... More
FACING THE MUSIC.
New York: Summit Books, 1981. Paperback. 6 x 9, 464 pgs, index. A collection of the finest pieces Harold Schonberg wrote in more than two decades as senior music critic of The New York Times. More
THE LIVES AND TIMES OF ARCHY & MEHITABEL.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. Later printing. Hardcover. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2, 477 pgs, b&w illustrations, introduction by E.B. White. Prose, "rich and satisfying, full of sad beauty, bawdy adventure, political wisdom, and wild surmise; full of pain and jollity, full of exact and inspired writing." More
WOLFVILLE DAYS.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1902. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 311 pgs, frontispiece by Frederic Remington. Classic story of cowboy life in the old west. More
MOUNTAINS AND MOLEHILLS.
New York: Time-Life Books, 1982. Reprint. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the first British edition in 1855. 5 x 7, 443. Marryats tale of the disasters that dogged his steps from England to San Francisco and the gold fields. Amusing and interesting account of life in those days. More
POLIO; An American Story
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. First, thus. Paperback. 6 x 9, 342 pgs, section of b&w photos. The gripping story of terror that struck at babies through grandparents. Based on the papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, and other key players, the story continues through the founding of The..... More