Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 346 pp. Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) not only was such a close friend with Mark Twain that Twain served as a pall bearer at Dudley's funeral, but he co-authored "The Gilded Age" with Twain, in addition to writing numerous..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Parker, Arvilla. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies, unnumbered, Second Series of Rare Americana, No. 4, quarto size, 60 pp. This collection of miscellany was carefully selected to give an honest and authentic viewpoint of the early mining days in California from the..... More
Denver, Colorado: The Old West Publishing Company, 1964. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 deluxe versions (presentation copy), folio size, 397 pp., signed by Dale L. Morgan. William H. Ashley (ca. 1778-1838) was a prominent player in the fur trade in the western United States, forming the company Rocky Mountain..... More