Featured items that Great American Cattle Company plans to bring to RMBPF 2007.
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Coburn, Wallace D. - Rhymes From A Roundup Camp, 1899, First Edition, 2nd State,
in a custom clamshell box. Jeff Dykes' Russell Rarities #4: " The deluxe edition
in full red leather … also issued by Ridgley in 1899 is exceedingly rare."
A Merrill Aristocrat. $1600.00.
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Green, Ben (Joe Beeler, Illus) - The Last Trail Drive Through Downtown Dallas,
1971, Northland Press, Special Limited Edition, one of 100, bound in publisher's
half leather and slipcase, with an original drawing by Joe Beeler.
Colophon page signed by author and illustrator. Reese Six Score and 44&44. $1200.00.
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James, Will - Smoky, 1926, Charles Scribner's Sons. First printing 1st Edition.
Frazier: "A first edition, first printing Smoky is a rare bird; if in a first
state dust jacket, a treasure indeed." "Sold out before the ink was dry" in
September, and printed 9 more times before year's end, but not many in the first
printing. Selected for Newberry Award in 1927, for the year's most distinguished
contribution to American literature for children. $1800.00.
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Russell, Charles M. - Studies of Western Life, by Chas. M Russell,
The COWBOY Artist, 1890, Ben R Roberts, Cascade, Montana,
the Albertype Co., New York. 1st State, 1st Edition.
12 plates and title page, cloth and 3 hole tie, in a custom leather box.
This first state has none of the text by Granville Stuart, which is
present in the next and later printings. Jeff Dykes' #20 of Russell
Rarities; Reese's Six Score. Louis P. Merrill: "Three of his books are
exceedingly rare and require a place on any high priced book list.
The first book illustrated by him was his own and was also the first
book of illustrations on cowboys and range cattle, Studies of Western Life.
One of the "big twenty" among the Aristocrats of the Cattle Kingdom. $6,000.00.
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Russell, Charles M. - Trails Plowed Under, 1944, Doubleday, Garden City, New York.
Nice copy in unclipped dj, w/original signed and dated Ed Borein pen and ink remarque. $900.00
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