Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover book in good condition; no dust jacket. Turquoise boards with gilt title and front decoration. This is the annual collection of papers for 1945-46 from the Chicago Posse. Flyleaf is inscribed, "To a Reformed Westerner from a Reconstituted Westerner Edward N. Wentworth" Cover shows light shelf wear as expected for its age. Text block is clean.
Editore: Chicago Corral ( 1947 ), Chicago, 1947
Da: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: issued without dj. Edgar Miller (illustratore). First edition. 8vo, 166, [iv] pages, blue-green cloth; inked name on flyleaf. Includes a Syposium on Buffalo Bill, and other essays on Johnson County War, James Strang and the Mormons, James Boys, Calamity Jane: "Calamity Jane: Man? Woman? or Both?", Mississippi River yarns. Illustrated and with endpapers by Edgar Miller. [ HERD 2476. 6 GUNS, 2347]. Chicago is Corral #1 of what became The Westerners International. This is the second year of the Brand Book. " Because many of the papers presented in that second year had appeared elsewhere, the editor decided to add to the original papers some hitherto unpublished research of the frontier days and some works published in ephemeral media, such as ancient newspapers and mimeographed periodicals of limited circulation." - Preface. One of only 500 copies. Here included are previously unpublished Western diaries and records of the frontier days.
Editore: Chicago Corral ( 1945 ), Chicago, 1945
Da: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: issued w/o. First Edition. Quarto, unpaginated, green cloth, toned paper, dampstained lightly on front and rear endpapers. Here are the original papers presented at the meetings of The Westerners . during the first year. Includes a Syposium on the Battle of the Little Big Horn, dime novels, Jesse James, Trapper Trails, Solon Robinson. Contains two hitherto unpublished letters of Benteen - CUSTER HIGH SPOTS, 165." In fact, these are so original that this is one of the very scarce first year of the Brand Book, having been bound from 12 monthly mimeographed issues; as opposed the the typeset octavo book collection, of which only 460 copies were published.
Editore: Chicago Corral ( 1946 ), Chicago, 1946
Da: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: issued w/o. First Edition. Quarto, unpaginated, green cloth, toned paper, dampstained lightly on front and rear endpapers. Here are the original papers presented at the meetings of The Westerners . during the second year. In fact, this is one of the very scarce second year of the Brand Book, having been bound from 12 monthly mimeographed issues; as opposed the the typeset octavo book collection - which, admittedly, was enhanced with some important additions to these monthly talks/papers, but these issues are the true first appearances. Includes a Syposium on Buffalo Bill, and other essays on Johnson County War, James Strang and the Mormons, James Boys, Calamity Jane, Mississippi River yarns. Illustrated and with endpapers by Edgar Miller. [ HERD 2476. 6 GUNS, 2347].Told t.
Editore: Chicago Corral ( 1947 ), Chicago, 1947
Da: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: issued without dj. Edgar Miller (illustratore). First edition. 8vo, 166, [iv] pages, green cloth; inked name on flyleaf. Includes a Syposium on Buffalo Bill, and other essays on Johnson County War, James Strang and the Mormons, James Boys, Calamity Jane, Mississippi River yarns. Illustrated and with endpapers by Edgar Miller. [ HERD 2476. 6 GUNS, 2347]. Chicago is Corral #1 of what became The Westerners International. This is the second year of the Brand Book. " Because many of the papers presented in that second year had appeared elsewhere, the editor decided to add to the original papers some hitherto unpublished research of the frontier days and some works published in ephemeral media, such as ancient newspapers and mimeographed periodicals of limited circulation." - Preface. One of only 500 copies. Designed by R. Hunter Middleton. Here included are previously unpublished Western diaries and records of the frontier days.