Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02)
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Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) 1. ABBOTT, E. C. (“Teddy Blue”) & Helena Huntington Smith. We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher. New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, [1939]. xv [1] 281 pp., 7 photographic plates, title and text illustrations from drawings by Ross Santee, 2 maps. 8vo, original rose cloth with wrap-around label illustrated by Santee. Very fine in near fine d.j. (price-clipped), with illustration by Santee. The d.j. is very scarce. A desirable copy. First edition, with initials “FR” in device on title verso. Adams, Burs I:1. Campbell, pp. 83-84. Campbell, My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry 1. Dobie, p. 94: “Franker about the women a rollicky cowboy was likely to meet in town than all the other range books put together.” Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 #1. Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 12; Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Santee 22); Kid 273; Western High Spots, p. 85 (“A Range Man’s Library”).” Guns 1. Herd 1: “One of the best books of recent years depicting cowboy life. The hero was a well-known character of his day.” Malone, Wyomingana, p. 10: “Reminiscences of an old-time cowboy of the 70s and 80s chiefly in Montana but typical also of Wyoming at the time of the Texas cattle drives. Easy, informal style.” Reese, Six Score 1: “This is perhaps the most straightforward account of cowboy life. Teddy Blue Abbott was raised in Nebraska; after leaving home, his first job as a cowboy was with the notorious Olive outfit. He had numerous other jobs before coming up the trail to Montana in 1883, where he remained. In 1884 Abbott went to work for Granville Stuart, foreman and part-owner of the D-H-S outfit, at that time the largest in Montana. Eventually he married one of Stuart’s daughters and settled down, but not before some hot times in Miles City and elsewhere.” Smith 1. $350.00 2. ABBOTT, E. C. (“Teddy Blue”) & Helena Huntington Smith. We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher. New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, [1939]. Another copy. A bit of slight fading of cloth along edges, otherwise fine in price-clipped d.j. with a few splits and lacking slanted strip (approximately 1.5 x 12.1 cm) extending along lower edge of back panel of d.j.—only light loss of printed text. Ink ownership inscription of A. E. Clymonds of Lincoln, Nebraska, dated August 31, 1940, and his note: “Purchased Butte Mont. Snook Art Store.” $300.00 Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) 3. ABBOTT, E. C. (“Teddy Blue”) & Helena Huntington Smith. We Pointed Them North.... Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1991. lxx [2] 385 pp., frontispiece portrait of Abbott, map in full color, many illustrations (mostly full-page, some in color, many photographic). 12mo, original black cloth. Very fine. Editor Ron Tyler’s signed presentation copy. Revised edition, with added annotated historical introduction and numerous illustrations (some by Charles Russell, along with photographs by L. A. Huffman, Christian Barthelmess, and others). Tyler’s introduction and footnotes include previously unpublished material, such as excerpts and correspondence from the Abbott Family Papers in the Montana Historical Society. Excellent edition with the added text, illustrations, and Tyler as editor. $35.00 4. ABERNETHY, Francis Edward. J. Frank Dobie. Austin: Steck-Vaughn, [1967]. ii [2] 52 pp. 12mo, original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Very fine. First edition. Southwest Writers Series 1. Cook 420. Biographical sketch and critical survey of one of the premier writers on the range country. “The best critical survey thus far published” (Tinkle). $15.00 5. ABERNETHY, Francis Edward (ed.). Built in Texas. Waco: E-Heart Press, 1979. ix [3] 276 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs by Abernethy and line drawings by Reese Kennedy. Oblong 4to, original charcoal cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. First edition. Publication No. 42 of the Texas Folklore Society. Basic Texas Books 203:XLII. Scholarly study on folk building in Texas, including chapters of interest for ranch architecture (“Barns and Outbuildings,” “Gates and Fences,” and “Holding Water”). $40.00 6. ABERNETHY, Francis Edward (ed.). Observations and Reflections on Texas Folklore. Austin: Encino Press [for Texas Folklore Society], 1972. viii [2] 151 pp., photographic illustrations (by Abernethy), line drawings by James R. Snyder. 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. First edition. Publication No. 37 of the Texas Folklore Society. Basic Texas Books 203:XXXVII. Whaley, Wittliff 92. Collection of essays on Texas folklore with contributions by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatright, Ron Tyler, Joyce Gibson Roach, Elton Miles, J. Mason Brewer, Francis Abernethy, and others. Ranching interest is in “The Folklore of Texas Feuds” by C. L. Sonnichsen and “Horse Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) Penning: Southeast Texas, 1913” by Bill Brett (southeast Texas was one of the last free-range areas in Texas). $30.00 7. ABERNETHY, Francis Edward (ed.). Paisanos: A Folklore Miscellany. Austin: Encino Press [for Texas Folklore Society, 1978]. ix [3] 180 pp., illustrations (many photographic), line drawings by Linda Miller Roach. 8vo, original maize cloth. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. with mild stain from old label on back portion. Carl Hertzog bookplate. First edition. Publication No. 41 of the Texas Folklore Society. Basic Texas Books 203:XLI. Whaley, Wittliff 153. Collection of essays on Texas folklore with contributions by J. Frank Dobie, Francis Abernethy, and others. Of ranching interest is Christine Boot’s essay: “Home and Farm Remedies and Charms in a German Manuscript from a Texas Ranch.” $25.00 8. ABERNETHY, Francis Edward (ed.). T for Texas: A State Full of Folklore. Dallas: E-Heart Press, 1982. [2] xiii [1] 277 pp., plates (mostly photographic). 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Fine. First edition. Publication No. 44 of the Texas Folklore Society. Basic Texas Books 203:XLIVn. Includes “Pecos Bill: His Genesis and Creators” by James M. Day; “A Letter from the Long Circle” by Wayne Echols, about his experiences as a ranch hand and in rodeo; and “Night Horse Nightmare” by Paul Patterson, about the A. C. Hoover Horse Ranch. $20.00 9. ABERNETHY, Francis Edward (ed.). Tales from the Big Thicket. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, [1966]. xii, 244 pp., photographic illustrations, folding map. 8vo, original turquoise cloth. Fore-edges lightly foxed, else fine in fine d.j. First edition. Tate, Indians of Texas 1187 (citing article “Tales of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians” by Howard Martin). Has a chapter by Solomon Alexander Wright on herding cattle through the Big Thicket in the 1880s. $30.00 10. ABERT, [John W.]. Abert’s New Mexico Report 1846- ’47.... Albuquerque: Horn & Wallace, 1962. vii [1] 182 [1] pp., colored frontispiece after a painting by Peter Hurd, illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original brown cloth over beige mottled boards. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. (illustrated by Hurd). Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) Facsimile reprint of the 1848 edition (SED 23), with added foreword by William A. Keleher. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Hurd 40). Flake 7n. Graff 5n. Howes A11n. Plains & Rockies IV:143n. Rittenhouse 2n. Saunders 2691n. Streeter 168n. Wheat, Transmississippi West 532n. Many observations on raising sheep and goats on the relatively sparse vegetation in lower-elevation New Mexico. For Abert’s field notebook for this journey, see next entry. $50.00 11. ABERT, J[ohn] W. Western America in 1846-1847: The Original Travel Diary of Lieutenant J. W. Abert Who Mapped New Mexico for the United States Army with Illustrations in Color from His Sketchbook. Edited by John Galvin. [San Francisco: Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy for] John Howell-Books, 1966. [12] 116 [1] pp., color plates after Abert’s watercolors, 2 folding maps, text illustrations (mostly in color). Folio, original ecru decorated cloth. Very fine in original glassine d.j. First edition of Abert’s previously unpublished field notebook of 1846-47 recording his journey from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, his examination of New Mexico, and his return (see previous entry). Abert’s diary, first published in 1848, constitutes one of the earliest U.S. publications relating to New Mexico. $100.00 12. ABERT, J[ohn] W. Through the Country of the Comanche Indians in the Fall of the Year 1845: The Journal of a U.S. Army Expedition Led by Lieutenant James W. Abert of the Topographical Engineers...Whose Paintings of Indians and Their Wild West Illustrate This Book. [San Francisco: Designed and Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy for] John Howell-Books, 1970. xi [7] 77 pp., color frontispiece, 23 color plates, 2 foldout maps, text illustrations. Folio, original beige cloth gilt. Very fine in plain white d.j. First edition. Abert’s diary of his expedition to Texas and New Mexico was first published as a government document in 1846. In this handsome edition Abert’s original watercolor sketches are reproduced for the first time. Graff 6n. Howes A10n. Plains & Rockies IV:120n. Raines, p. 1n. Tate, Indians of Texas 2134. Abert turns his discerning gaze to several topics of ranching interest: Shawnee cattle, attacks on cattle by bobcats and wolves, cattle and sheep raising on the Mora River, cattle being driven to supply Doniphan’s command, etc. $85.00 13. ACHESON, Sam. Dallas Yesterday. Edited by Lee Milazzo. Dallas: SMU Press, [1977]. xxii, 403 pp., frontispiece Dorothy Sloan Books – Catalogue 10/4/1 (10/02) portrait. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in fine d.j. On front free endpaper is Milazzo’s lengthy signed presentation inscription to Carl Hertzog “For Carl Hertzog...