Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1947. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 754 pgs, b&w photos. Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first..... More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1974. Second edition. Hardcover. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4, 290 pgs, index, foreword by W.W. Newcomb. Focuses on a strip of coastal prairie lying roughly between Corpus Christi and Galveston and once inhabited by the poorly known and much maligned Karankawa Indians. More
New York: Norton, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 352 pgs, index. Memoirs of a late 19th century Austrian physician. More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1990. Later printing. Pamphlet. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 538 pgs, index, glossary, b&w illustrations. This comprehensive and compact field guide covers the richest plant-life region in the state-the Upper Gulf Coast Prairie, the Post Oak Savannah, and the Pineywoods of east Texas. More
Denver: University of Denver Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 358 pgs, index, b&w photos. Biographies of nine leading naturalists of the Rocky Mountain area, as well as a biographical dictionary of natural history collectors. More
London: Collins, 1959. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 208 pgs, b&w photos. From the New Naturalist Series, No: 40. Includes most valuable instructions on the finding of nests, capture & maintenance. Also 2 Appendices by Dr. Ian H. H. Yarrow on the Identification & Distribution of all the British..... More
London: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1905. Fifth edition. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 155 pgs, b&w photos. Dr. Grenfell's memoirs among the fishermen of Labrador. More
New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1915. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 292 pgs, decorated endsheets. First hand account of travels, personal courage and resourcefulness through a very primitive and unexplored Mexico. More
Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1935. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 292 pgs, b&w illustrations. Classic travel book. An introduction to Mexico both rural and Mexico City, including descriptions of craft-towns, the tropics, tourist Mexico and general exploration. Signed by both authors. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 339 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w historical photos. This is the story of Temple Lea Houston's flowering in the law and politics of Texas and his decision to escape from being his father's son..... More
Sutton, NE: Spearman Publishing, 1980. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 90 pgs. Articles by the author originally published in The Trapper. More
Santa Fe, NM: New Mexico State Engineer's Office, 1991. Paperback. 6 x 9, 41 pgs, b&w illustrations. New Mexico has some of the most complicated water rights and water ownership situations in the country, and possibly in the world. This book offers rural residents and homeowners tools for helping to..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 1074 total pgs, index, two frontispiece engravings. A complete history of the conquest of Peru with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas. Well documented and noted. Marbled cloth and red leather ribbed spine. More
Greenville, PA: Beaver Pond Publications, 1992. Second edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 166 pgs, sepia and white illustrations. The author's experiences and observations during years of muzzleloader hunting. More
Chamberlain, SC: Privately Printed, 2003. Later printing. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 84 pgs, b&w photos. All about the natural history of the Eastern Brush Wolf, plus traps and equipment, trap treatment, prospecting and set location, lures, baits, urines and their use, bare ground coyote sets, winter trapping, and..... More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 129 pgs, index, biblio, notes, b&w photos. Subtitled "Closing the Open Range in SE New Mexico 1890s-1920s", the first indepth look at what the cowboys did once the frontier closed. More
New York: Knopf, 1967. Fourth printing. Hardcover. 6 x 8 1/2, 350 pgs plus fold out map, index, glossary, biblio, b&w photos and maps. After two years' travel amongst the Mexican people, a look at these people and theories on why they live and think and act as they do..... More
New York: Crown, 1970. Hardcover. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 306 pgs, index, biblio, b&w illustrations. Full of knowledge, lore, anecdote and deep respect for the Native Americans and how they used the herbs and plants that grew throughout their lands. More
El Paso, TX: Mangan Books, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 467 pgs, index, biblio, notes, b&w historical photos. The untold story of lines drawn in water, sand and blood; of intrepid durable people on both sides of the United States-Mexico line; of civilizations whose tides of history are..... More
St. Louis, MO: Webster Publishing, 1949. Second edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 122 pgs, b&w illustrations, decorated endsheets. Biography of the Indian boy who rose to become Mexico's greatest leader in the 19th century. For young adults, adapted from the first edition. More
Sutton, NE: Spearman Publishing, 1980. Paperback. 5 x 8, 85 pgs. The documented story of how Claude Dallas murdered two game wardens. Written by a trapper. More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. . UNM Press, Albuquerque, 1983, 1st edition. 6 x 9, 291 pgs, b&w illustrations. Discusses and describes 137 rare species of plants occurring in New Mexico. More
Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1957. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 688 pgs, index, b&w photos and illustrations, decorated endsheets. A classic botany text. More
Hastings, NE: Cornhusker Press, 1996. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 47 pgs, b&w photos. Covers harvesting equipment and methods, preparing medicinals for market, marketing, plus descriptions and uses for the plants. More
New York: Putnams, 1954. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 337 pgs. An anthology of the best mountaineering stories from all over the world by some of the world's great writers and mountain climbers. More