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Featured items that Points West Fine Books plans to bring to RMBPF 2009.
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1. "Art Work of Denver, Colorado": Published in Nine Parts. Denver:
The Gravure Illustrations Co., 1902. First Edition. Pp. 73, nine
volumes. Blue stapled wraps, gold titles. Illustrated with total of 87
photogravure plates with protective tissue. All volumes fine,
present, and complete. Encased in original cloth portfolio folder
that is rough. Extensive photo-tour of turn-of-the-century Denver?s
architecture, landmarks, businesses and residences: Tabor Opera House,
Denver Athletic Club, University Club, Elitch Gardens, 16th Street,
High Schools, Union Depot, Old U.S. Mint, Royal Gorge, Cheesman Lake,
City Park, numerous mansions, et. al.. An impressive historical
archive of a city whose growth over the past century is astonishing in
comparison to these photos.
$1500.00
Local Denver History
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[COLORADO] DIER, CAROLINE LAWRENCE. "The Lady of the Gardens: Mary
Elitch Long." Hollywood: Hollycrofters, 1932. pp. 307. First edition.
Illustrated, pp. 153-305. Contains plates taken from photographs in
the family archives. Original leather backed marbled boards,
gold-stamped spine. Privately printed in a small edition, on rear
inside is a paste-down slip "the first 12 copies of the limited
edition are owned by State Hist. Soc. Of Col. , etc.." Socialite,
builder of parks and gardens, philanthropist, etc. in Denver.
$100.00
Local Denver History
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[NEW MEXICO] CALHOUN, JAMES S. . "The Official Correspondence of James
S. Calhoun While Indian Agent At Santa Fe and Superintendent of Indian
Affairs in New Mexico." Wash. : 1915. pp. [14], 554. Illustrated,
port, index, four sketch maps in rear pocket. Fine. Edited by Annie H.
Abel for the Office of Indian Affairs. Letters cover the period from
1849-1852. ?One noticeable thing about all the Calhoun letters is the
complaint of inadequate support from Washington.?(Introduction) Howes
C28.
$300.00
Western Americana
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[RAILROAD] KENDALL, ISABELLE CARPENTER. "Across the Continent:
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway." Seattle: Hibbard, 1911.
First edition. Pp. [62]. Illustrated, many in color on almost every
page, map in color showing time route. Original 4to printed pictorial
wrappers. Small piece lacking from spine, else fine. Much on the
Puget Sound and Washington with illustrations of scenes, buildings,
etc.. Prospectus laid in.
$300.00
Railroads
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PIERCE, R.V., M.D.. "For Both Sexes, Chronic Diseases of the
Generative and Urinary Organs, Their Treatment and Positive Cure."
Buffalo, NY: R.V. Pierce, 1871. Second edition. Pp. [1 adv.], 31,
[3 adv.]. 16 mo. Sewn paper wraps. Near fine with yellowing to
first four pages that includes table of contents and (appropriately)
section on impotency. Ads for Doctor Pierce?s Golden Medical Discovery
and, on rear, $500 reward for a case of Catarrh that Dr. Sage?s remedy
can not cure. Treatments for such ailments as clap, female weakness,
gonorrhea, loss of manhood, masturbation, menstruation, nocturnal
emissions, nymphomania, syphilis, venereal diseases, et. al.. Author
of the "Common Sense Medical Advisor," Pierce became quite wealthy
selling his patent-medicines and served as a Republican Senator.
Sundance Kid and Etta Place reportedly checked into Pierce?s Invalid
Hotel for undisclosed ailments (Lachiusa).
$125.00
Ephemera
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