R & A PETRILLA Antiquarian booksellers and appraisers since 1970 P.O. Box 306 Roosevelt, NJ 08555 609.426.4999 [email protected] www.petrillabooks.com Catalog 266: Western Americana Prices include shipping in the US. Shipping overseas at cost. All items are guaranteed as described. We always welcome your orders. – Bob & Alison 1. Allen, T.D. NAVAHOS HAVE FIVE FINGERS. Norman: U Oklahoma Press, (1965). Second printing. pp: xiv, 249; 12 full-page photographs, foldout map. Bound in red cloth, gilt spine lettering. 9.25" x 6" Very Good. Original Cloth. (#037758) $20.00 2. Along...sheet music. ALONG THE NAVAJO TRAIL: Words and music by Larry Markes, Dick Charles, Eddie DeLange. NY: Leeds Music, 1945. Early edition. 6pp, words and music, in part: "Ev'ry day along about ev'nin', When the sunlight's beginnin' to fail, I ride through the slumberin' shadows Along the Navajo Trail...." Key of Eb. 12" x 9" Very Good. Pictorial Paper Covers. Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters, featured on the cover, recorded this song on Decca record #23437. (#034692) $10.00 3. American Cowboy. SEPIATONE STUDIO PHOTOGRAPH OF A COWBOY IN FULL REGALIA: sheepskin chaps, ten-gallon hat, vest, bandanna, pistol belt, holster and pistol, and holding a small whip. s.l.: s.n., 1880. Original photograph. Original photograph, 6.75" x 4.5". Photographer unknown. Signed in ink on the verso: "Philip Yale Derr / Mch 15 - 80." Minor creases. Very Good. [We find a Philip Derr (1815-1895) buried at Fairview Cemetery in Salida, Colorado, who may or may not be the man in this photograph.] (#036938) $85.00 4. American Music, publisher. COWBOY BALLADS: Folio No. 4. Portland, OR: American Music, 1940. First Edition. pp: 48, (2). Contains words and music to 20 cowboy songs as sung by Tex Owens, "Radio's Original Texas Ranger." Titles include: Lonesome Cowboy; Arizona Moon; My Texas Rose; Ridin' in the Rockies; Dear Hills of Texas; and 15 more. 12.25" x 9.25" Very Good. Pictorial Paper Covers. Tex Owens appears on the cover. (#BOOKS017786I) $20.00 5. American Music, publisher. SONGS OF THE SADDLE, No. 3: 20 New Popular Favorites. Complete with Words and Music, Guitar, Ukulele & Banjo Chords. Portland, Oregon: American Music, 1942. First Edition. 50pp. Contains words and music to 22 songs, including: Give Me A Girl from the Golden West; I'd Love to Be A Cowboy; Dreaming Along the Sleepy Rio Grande; On the Spring Creek Trail; Colorado Round-up Days; Over the Hills of Texas; The Cowgirl's Prayer; and 15 more. Light wear along spine. 12" x 9" Good +. Pictorial Paper Covers. On the cover is an inset photo-portrait of Chill Wills, surrounded by drawings of cowboys on bucking broncos. (#032942) $20.00 6. American Music, publisher . COWBOY BALLADS: Folio No. 1. Portland, Oregon: American Music, 1939. First Edition. pp: 48, (2). Contains words and music to 20 songs, including: When It's Roundup Time On The Range; On An Old Ranch Home In Arizona; Bury Me Up On The Mountain; My Ranch On The Colorado; and 16 more. Spine preserved with cloth by prior owner. 12" x 9" Very Good. Pictorial Paper Covers. The cover depicts cowboys singing around a campfire at night, with an inset photo of Tex Ritter in western gear and gunbelt as he appeared in a Monogram Pictures movie. (#034651) $20.00 7. Applegate, Jesse A. & Lavinia Honeyman Porter. WESTWARD JOURNEYS: Memoirs of...who Traveled the Overland Trail. Edited by Martin Ridge. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1989. First edition thus. pp: lxiii, 416, index; 34 plates (some in color), double-page map. Applegate tells of his family's journey to Oregon in 1843 when he was eight years old. Lavinia Porter relates her experiences as a young wife and mother on the trail to Denver in 1860, and later on to California. 6.75" x 4.25" Fine. Original Cloth. (#BOOKS008528I) $20.00 8. Archer, Lou Ella. CANYON SHADOWS: Illustrated by Lillian Wilhelm Smith. Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, (1931). First Edition. pp: 33, (1); complete with 7 color plates, b&w vignettes on text pages. Bound in tan hopsacking, brown lettering, color plate mounted on cover. 8" x 10.25" Very Good. Pictorial Cloth. Watercolors and poems celebrate the canyons of Arizona and southern Utah. (#037682) $50.00 9. Argall, Phyllis. THE TRUTH ABOUT JESSE JAMES: A post mortem presentation of little known facts about a famous American character. Sullivan, Missouri: Lester B. Dill & Rudy Turilli, 1953. First Edition. 28pp; frontispiece portrait and six full-page illus from photographs. Tan wrappers, cover title in brown. 8" x 6" Very Good. Printed Stiff Wrappers. [Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather, 71: "This little book upholds the claim that J. Frank Dalton was the real Jesse James, but the author advances no conclusive proof." (#037013) $25.00 10. Arizona. PROHIBITION LAWS, FEDERAL AND STATE, IN FORCE IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA. Compiled and issued by Wiley E. Jones, Attorney General of Arizona. July 1, 1919. Phoenix, Arizona: Quality Press, 1919. First Edition. 10pp. Bound in printed green wrappers. Removed from a nonce volume, with three small stab holes in spine. 8.75" x 5.75" Very Good. Original Wrappers. [WorldCat locates five holdings: NYPL, LC, U Arizona, Arizona State Library, Arizona State U.] (#038032) $40.00 11. Autry, Gene. SONGS GENE AUTRY SINGS: Compiled by Gene Autry. Arranged by Nathan Scott. Hollywood: Western Music, 1942. First Edition. 51pp; 10 pp illus from photographs. Contains words and music to 17 western songs, most of which Gene Autry co- authored, and a brief autobiography. 11.75" x 9" Very Good. Pictorial Paper Covers. Titles include: Back In The Saddle Again; Good Old Fashioned Hoe-Down; Ole Peaceful River; Under Fiesta Stars; and 13 more. (#BOOKS014177I) $25.00 12. Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin. STORIES FROM AN INDIAN CAVE: The Cherokee Cave Builders. Illustrated by Joseph Eugene Dash. Junior Press Books. Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1935. Fifth Printing. 217pp; frontispiece and 21 other full-page, duotone illustrations, with vignettes in the text. Bound in green cloth, pictorial cover label, pictorial endpapers. 9.25" x 6" Very Good. Original Cloth. (#037769) $40.00 13. Balthasar, Juan Antonio. FATHER BALTHASAR VISITS THE SINALOA MISSIONS, 1744-1745: Printed for Frederick W. Beinecke, Christmas, 1959. s.l.: Printed for F.W. Beinecke, 1959. Limited Edition. 14pp. String-tied red wrappers, printed cover label. Translated by Jerry Patterson, this is one of 300 copies only. 9" x 5.75" Fine. Original Wrappers. Preface by Archibald Hanna. (#036671) $20.00 14. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. TRAVEL ROUTES AND FARES TO THE WEST -- Summer 1930: California, Colorado, The Southwest, National Parks, Pacific Northwest. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1930. First Edition. Broadsheet, 12.5" x 24", folds to pocket size. The verso contains a Rand McNally map of the B&O rail lines. The recto on green stock includes travel information, fares, brief descriptions of destinations, and 19 illustrations from photographs. Fine. Printed self-wrappers. (#036359) $35.00 15. Bancroft, Caroline. AUGUSTA TABOR: HER SIDE OF THE SCANDAL. Denver: Bancroft Books, 1961. Third Edition. 16pp; illus from photographs. This biography of millionaire George Tabor's wife traces their marriage from early days in poverty. It tells of their migration from Kansas to Colorado and Augusta's ambitious business life there, through Tabor's silver strikes, his eventual scandalous divorce from Augusta to marry "Baby Doe" who became the "Silver Queen" of the 1880s, and Augusta's life after the divorce. 8.5" x 5.5" Very Good. Pictorial wraps. (#BOOKS009486I) $7.50 16. Bancroft, Caroline. TABOR'S MATCHLESS MINE AND LUSTY LEADVILLE. Denver, CO: Bancroft Booklets, 1960. Revised Edition. 24pp; illus from photographs. Tabor's mine at Leadville produced silver even after other mines had played out. This work includes a brief history of Leadville. 8.5" x 5.5" Very Good. Original Wraps. (#BOOKS009493I) $7.50 17. Beal, Merrill D. THE STORY OF MAN IN YELLOWSTONE. Yellowstone Park, Wyoming: Yellowstone Library & Museum, 1956. Revised Edition. 320pp, index; 12 plates, maps, text illus. The Yellowstone Park naturalist offers a history of the area from its early 19th- century discovery by John Colter to 1960. 7.75" x 5.25" Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket. Decorative Cloth. This example is signed at the top of the title-page by Merrill D. Beal. (#BOOKS012628I) $25.00 18. Beatty, Willard W. INDIANS YESTERDAY AND TODAY: Information Pamphlet. Lawrence, Kansas: United States Indian Service, 1950. Second printing. 76pp; 20 plates from photographs, other illus in text. 9.75" x 6.75" Very Good. Pictorial Stiff Wraps. (#035994) $10.00 19. Benson, Lyman. THE CACTI OF ARIZONA. Line Drawings by Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton. Tucson: U Arizona Press, (1950). Second Edition. pp: xiii, 134; 29 plates from photographs (some color), 33 text drawings, five tables. Tipped in at the front is an eight-page index to this book, compiled by Walter S. Phillips. Bound in tan cloth. On the front pastedown is a small silver & black label of the Aztec Studio Shop. 9.25" x 6" Very Good. Original Cloth. (#037757) $25.00 20. Blue Ranger...sheet music. BLUE RANGER. Music by Tom Gindhart. Words by Jack Howard. [Sung by the] Santa Fe Trail Blazers. Philadelphia: Jack Howard, 1946. Second Edition. Pictorial covers and contents in very good condition. 12" x 9.25" 4pp In part: "The stars shine down on me only. The moon is pale I search in vain for love on the lonely trail. I'm a Blue Ranger But my heart's in danger. Would you bide awhile, or ride a mile along with me.