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DESERT MAGAZINE, December 1949.
William Knyvett Good Magazine: Desert Photographs, Maps, Drawings,
December 1949 issue with cover showing White Christmas on the Desert. Some articles include: Valley of the Cathedrals, by Charles Kelly; We found Ant Hills covered with Jewels, by Edith Rutenic McLeod; Panamint Pack Trip, by Randall Henderson; Pom Poms at Christmas, by Dorothy L. Pillsbury; and Adobe Maker of Scottsdale, by Christine B. MacKenzie. Pictorial cover with some rubbing. Several small nicks at spine joint. Back cover 4 1/2" tear at spine.Mildly soiled back cover. Overall covers are Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+.
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SCIENCE, July 24, 1885. Volume VI. No. 129
Cambridge The Science Company 1885 Paper Wraps Good to Good+ Science Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4" Etchings
Articles by Famous Americans: N. S. SHALER " Humanism in the study of nature"; and in Letters to the Editor: M. E. WADSWORTH "Volcanic dust east of the Rocky Mountains". Other articles: " An Arizona Natural Bridge" with illustration; " Sir Peter Lumsden on the Tribes upon the Afghan Boundary" with 2 illustrations- Gateway of Bala Murghab and Some types of Afgan Tribes; "Comparison of the Skulls of Assassins and Men of Note" with an illustration of "average measurements of three classes of heads" and under Notes and News, a paragraph about Observatory at Nice and its floating dome with 2 illustrations showing "sections" of the dome. ex.mus. stamp on front cover. Tiny chipping around side/bottom edges. Overall covers are Good to Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG.
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35.00 USD
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THE SMOKE SIGNAL, SPRING 1968, NO. 17
Tucson The Tucson Corral of the Westerners 1968 Magazine Very Good Magazine Size: Approx. 8 1/2 " x 11" Photographs
The Pony Express - The Overland Mail: A Dramatic Era When Western Mails Were Delivered by Pony Rider and Stagecoach. Pages 146-167. Document in VG condition with top of magazine slightly bent and creased. Otherwise magazine is tight and clean.
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WALNUT GROVE GOLD-MINING COMPANY
Washington Government Printing Office 1873 Disbound Very Good Government Document Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9"
Memorial of the Walnut Grove Gold-Mining Company. 43D Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Mis. Doc. No. 16. Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. December 8, 1873. 24 pp. Disbound government document. Residue from book remains along document spine. Some mild foxing, but text is not affected. Document is in VG condition.
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Bagrow, Leo (edited by) Imago MVNDI: A Review of Early Cartography
The Hague Mouton & Co., 1956 Paper Wraps Very Good Cartography Size: Approx. 8 1/2 " x 11 1/2" Figures(Facsimile, Maps), Table
Article by Paul H. Ezell:FRAY DIEGO BRINGAS, A FORGOTTEN CARTOGRAPHER OF SONORA. pp.150-158. Two full-page maps with Bringa's Itinerary October 1795, and Bringa's Map of the Gila River region and the Coast of California. Another full page with Geographical Description and the sketch map of Sonora. All figures (illustrations) are facisimiles in H.F. Bruning's Collection. Table of the "State of the Population of the Missions of Sonora". Heavy tan wraps with black lettering. Slight "tanning" around edges; slight rubbing at spine's top corner. Overall covers are in Very Good condition. Frontis. illustration's top border very faint foxing? or discoloration from front cover? Barely visible and not near illustration. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+.
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40.00 USD
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Browne, J. Ross A TOUR THROUGH ARIZONA: First and Second Paper
Harper's New Monthly Magazine 1864 Disbound Good Engravings
No. CLXXIII. October, 1864. Vol. XXIX. "...I have now to offer a new programme of exploration and adventure...possessing peculiar charms ...and extraordinary advantages in the way of burning deserts, dried rivers, rattlesnakes, scorpions, Greasers, and Apaches: besides unlimited fascinations in the line of robbery, starvation, and the chances of sudden death by accident." Disbound. stapled. Front page corners creased. bottom edge browned. Side edges chipped. Mild foxing. Overall Interiors are Very Good. First paper: pp.553-574 with pp. 571 loose. Second paper: pp.689-708. Many illustrations. (Browne's name not stated anywhere in articles)
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Carroll, John Alexander (Editor) ARIZONA AND THE WEST: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF HISTORY; VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1, SPRING 1960
Tucson The University of Arizona Press 1960 Trade Paperback Very Good Arizona Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 10" Plates
Collection of articles related to the Southwest. Articles include: "Archaeological Awareness of the Southwest: As Illustrated in Literature to 1890" by Ray Brandes; "Fountains in the Sand" an address by Lawrence Clark Powell; and "Jewish Pioneering in the Southwest: A Record of the Frudenthal-Lesinsky-Solomon Families" by Floyd S. Fierman. 103 pp. with bibliography. Yellow covers on trade paperback show some wear with fading to front cover edges, ink mark on top back cover, edges rubbed and corners bumped. Interior is tight, clean and in VG condition.
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Cooper, Nel NEL COOPER STORIES. True Tales of the Wagoner, Arizona Area
Arizona Nel Cooper 1974 Revised Soft Cover Very Good+ to Near Fine Arizona Size: Approx. 5 " x 8 " Photographs, Drawings
Index of "Stories": He 'et His Beans with His Knife; A Brief History of Wagoner; The Big Black Stallion; Rustlers Roost; The First Mustangs; Victor, The Steeldust Stallion; Buffalo Ride; One Legend of the Hassayampa Safe; "Could One of These Have Been the Frenchman Who Later Made the Stone Arrastra Wheels?"; and The Feuder. 47 pp. Includes photographs and sketches. (Author was inducted into the CowGirl Hall of Fame in 1984. She came to Arizona looking for adventure, married a rancher and homesteaded one of the largest Mohair goat ranches in the state. After her husband died, she successfully managed the ranch as the only woman goat rancher in Arizona, converting it to a cattle ranch just as the prices for mohair began to fall.)
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Dunn, Edward D. DOUBLE-CROSSING AMERICA BY MOTOR, Routes and Ranches of the West
New York G.P. Putnam's 1933 Very Good- Car Narrative Size: Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" Illus. With Drawings and Maps
This charmingly illustrated book contains information about costs, rates and names of places to stay over night on a transcontinental trip. The book is divided into sections, each one consisting of an account of that day's trip, listing mileage, expenses, occasionally suggested reading, and highlights of the day's run. The trip takes in the charming South - Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky; the energetic Middle West - Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Kanses; the romantic Southwest - Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona; the amazing state of California; a short run into Old Mexico; the Bret Harte frontier country of Nevada and Wyoming; the agricultural lands of Idaho, Dakota and Pennsylvania; a short run into Canada; and the pastoral case of upstate New York. Several ranches along the way are described. Pictorial endpapers. 251 pp. 80 illustrations and maps. Spine dulled and ends slightly rubbed. Otherwise covers are Very Good. Illustrated endpapers. Slight foxing on half title page and on blank page at back. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Bliss 58.
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Earle, W. Hubert. CACTI OF THE SOUTHWEST
Arizona Arizona Cactus & Native Flora Society 1963 Brown Cloth Very Good Botany Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 3/4" Figures(photographs, map)
Science Bulletin No. 4. Covers Cacti of Arizona, Western New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Southern Utah, Southern Nevada, and Eastern California. 110 pp. including Index and several pages for Notes. Brown cloth with gilt letters on front cover. Slight rubbing to corner tips and spine ends, otherwise exterior is VG+. Interior is tight, clean and Near Fine. Text and photographs by author.
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Hazard, Daniel L. RESULTS OF OBSERVATIONS MADE AT THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY MAGNETIC OBSERVATORY NEAR TUCSON, ARIZONA 1909 AND 1910
Washington Government Printing Office 1913 Soft Cover Good to Good+ U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Size: Approx. 8 3/4" x 11 1/2" Foldout Graphs, Tables, Photographs,
"As the improvised building for the variation instruments at Baldwin, Kans., was of such a character as to detract seriously from the accuracy and value of the results obtained, and as the increasing density of population in that region presaged the introduction of electric car lines in the near future, it was decided to transfer the variation instruments from Baldwin to some place in the southwestern part of the United States. After an examination of numerous localities a site was selected about 8 miles (12.9 km.) east of the city of Tucson, Arizona." 59 pp. 9 foldout graphs with reproductions of magnetograms showing the principal magnetic storms. 2 photographs of office/buildings. Numerous tables. tan paper wraps. Mildly soiled. faint ex.-mus. stamp on front cover and ex.-mus numbers.Overall covers are Good to Good+. ex-mus. stamp on title page, otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+.
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45.00 USD
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Jackson, Earl THE NATURAL HISTORY STORY OF CHIRICAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT
Globe, Arizona Southwest Parks and Monuments Association 1970 First Printing Soft Cover Very Good to Very Good+ National Parks Size: Approx. 6 " x 9" Maps, Photographs
Laid in a 4 page-2 pages double sided GUIDE TO FOREST FOOTHILLS TRAIL from United States Separtment of the Interior National Park Service Chiricahua National Monument Arizona. List of the plants corresponding to the numbered stakes along the path. Booklet is 76 pp. Illustrated with b/w photos and maps. Suggested Reading and Appendix . Stiff color pictorial wrappers. Some fading to covers. Otherwise covers are VG+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+.
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13.00 USD
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Mentor Magazine (Blanchard, C.J. ) MENTOR MAGAZINE..RECLAIMING THE DESERT.
1918 Stiff Wraps Good+ to Very Good- Desert
Department of Science. Volume 6, Number 17, October 15, 1918. 12 pps. plus 6 loose gravure illustrations: "A Miracle of Irrigation, Uncompahgre Valley, Colorado", "High Line Canal, Utah Valley, Utah", "Gunnison Tunnel, Colorado", "Roosevelt Dam, Arizona", "Arrowrock Dam, Idaho..", "Suburb of Phoenix, Arizona--Reclaimed from Desert Land." Each of the plates has a descriptive essay on the reverse side. Have 2 copies of gravure #5: Arrowrock Dam, Idaho. Stiff decorative covers slightly soiled around edges. 1/2" tear at spine top, otherwise exterior and interior is Very Good. Gravures are Very Good.
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Powell, Donald M. NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA IN THE SERIAL SET, 1846 - 1861
Los Angeles Dawson Book Shop 1970 Green Cloth Fine American History Frontis. Signed by Author
SIGNED by author on front free endpaper. Unpaginated. Green cloth. Reprinted from the New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. XLIV, no. 4., October, 1969, Vol. XLV, No. 1, January 1970. An annotated checklist intended to provide a key to the information on New Mexico and Arizona in the "Serial Set" (the serially numbered set of documents published for the use of Congress) for the period between the War with Mexico and the Civil War. Both exterior and interior are Fine.
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