RMABA Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair

 
 
 
Featured items that Old West Books plans to bring to RMBPF 2008.
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Ranching / Cattle Pollock, J. M. The Unvarnished West Ranching As I Found It Gregory & Son London (1911) 253 pages, frontis, illustrations, very slight edge wear, light foxing on page edges. Extremely rare! The author tells of his time in northwest Texas, cattle drive, stampede, bad weather, etc. Rare! Merrill Aristocrats, Rader 2690, Howes 467, Herd 1814.
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Ranching / Cattle Biggers, Don H. From Cattle Range to Cotton Patch A Series of Historical Sketches Press of the Abilene Print Co. Abilene 1905 1st ed. VG- 156 pages, illustrations, errata, original limp leatherette covers, wear to edge and chipping to chip, tight solid copy housed in a protective case. "A series of historical sketches dealing with the industrial, social and commercial evolutions that have taken place in Western Texas from the beginning of the buffalo slaughter to date of first publication in 1904." Rare! Herd 258, Graff 297,Howes B439, Merrill Aristocrat.
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Gunmen / Sporting Carver, WM. F. Dr. Life of DR. WM. F. Carver of California Champion Rifle Shot of the World. Being an Interesting and Truthful Story of His Capture by the Indians When a Child and Romantic Life Among the Savages for a Period of Sixteen Years to Which is Appended, Record of His Remarkable Exhibitions of Skill With a Rifle Press of Rockwell and Churchill Boston 1878 1st ed. wraps. Original pictorial wraps, G+ 175 pages, front cover is heavily chipped, but title is intact, chipping to spine and the bottom of the first few pages. Overall a better than good copy of a very rare item, in clamshell case. Graff 623, Howes 215.
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Ranching / Cattle Haley, Evetts J Charles Goodnight Cowman & Plainsman Houghton Mifflin Company Boston 1936 1st edition, hard cover, VG+/VG- 485 pages, illustrations, index, wear to jacket edges, un-clipped, SIGNED letter from author laid in. Rader 1730, Howes H36, Herd 960, Six-Score 53, "The best biography of a cowman ever written. Goodnight's career spanned the history of the development of West Texas, from Indian fighting to oil wells."
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Western Military Custer George A My Life On The Plains or Personal Experiences With Indians, Sheldon and Co. N.Y. 1874 1st edition hard cover VG+ 256 pages, frontis, Illustrations. Original brown cloth with very bright gilt buffalo and lettering on cover, spine is faded but lettering still present, owner inscription, interior very clean, one of the cleanest I've seen, nice collectable copy! Howes C981, Rader 1011 A must for the Custer / western collector

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