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The Argonaut Book Shop was founded in 1941 in the middle of the financial district of San Francisco by Robert D. Haines. The Argonaut was a founding member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and is also a member of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. For the last forty years the shop s proprietor has been Robert D. Haines, Jr. A number of years ago, Angela C. Haines and Aaron C. Haines joined the firm and are the third generation family members in the business. The shop is located near historic Union Square in downtown San Francisco and is open six days a week.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Date published: 1937
Description: First edition. 400pp. Green cloth lettered in yellow. Covers soiled and spoted, spine darkened. Spine ends worn. A good copy without dust jacket. The author's first novel about the sandhills and cattle country of Nebraska in the early 1900's. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City
Date published: 1945
Description: The "Old Dominion" Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow series. Blue cloth with paper labels to spine and front cover. Spine slightly darkened with some minor soiling to spine label. Light rubbing and minor wear to covers with a slight scar to the front cover. Previous owner's bookplate to endpaper. A near fine copy. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684854960ISBN:0684854961
Description: 2nd printing. 204pp. Illustrated with photographs, photographic endpapers. Two-tone dark blue and tan boards, spine lettered in gold. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. An autobiography that gives us a glimpse of McMurtry's thoughts on writing, small town life, his grandparents and parents, his upbringing, reading, book collecting, the decline of the cowboy, and more. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Daljo Pub, Tulsa
Date published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780962782305ISBN:0962782300
Description: Octavo. 357pp. Illustrated with black & white photographs and line drawings. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and blind stamped decoration on front cover. Corners slightly bumped, previous owner's address label on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. A biography of Nacy Cooper Russell, wife of the fames cowboy artist Charles Marion Russell. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charterhouse, New York
Date published: 1973
Description: First edition. [10], 371pp. Previous owner's bookplate. Faded along lower edge of covers, one small ding to rear cover. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. A fictional novel keeping true to the known fats of the Donner Party. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford
Date published: 1958
Description: Reprint. xi, 175pp. Dust jacket is faded at spine and has minor wear with a small half-inch tear to lower front edge. A fine copy. A "best of" collection of Gold Rush stories the author wrote and printed as columns in the newspaper where he served as editor for fifty-five years, The Inyo Register of Bishop, California. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
Date published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780806115214ISBN:0806115211
Description: Second printing. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. A fine copy with dust jacket. The history of Fort Gibson. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Privately Printed, San Francisco
Date published: 1956
Description: One of 500 copies printed by George L. Hardin, Lawton Kennedy, and Carl I. Wheat for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, the Sacramento Book Collectors Club, the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles, anf their friends. 20pp. Stiff brown wrappers with decoration and printing on cover. A very fine copy. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
Date published: 1957
Description: First edition. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Spine is faded, very light rubbing to the extremities, previous owner's bookplate on endpaper. A very good copy. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
Date published: 1969
Description: Large octavo. Tan cloth with black lettering. Bookplate on front cover, else a fine copy with faded pictorial dust jacket. A sampling of first-hand reports, diary excerpts, journals, newspapers and official documents. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Donlen Company, Monrovia, California
Date published: 1946
Description: First editon. Brown cloth with pictorial cover. A fine copy. Basic text about cowboys interspesed with numerous humerous cartton drawing by Don Whiston. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
Date published: 1945
Description: 2nd printing. 220pp. Numerous photographic illustrations throughout. Appendices; bibliography. Light blue cloth with silver lettering. Slightly bowed covers, minor soiling and slight wear. A good copy, internally fine. A thorough study of the art of the Indian silversmiths of the Southwest. Includes the history of the craft as well as names and localities of pioneer artisans. Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co., New York
Date published: 1958
Description: Illustrated with black & white prints and facsimilie reproductions. Index. A fine copy bound in blue cloth. A compilation of battle reports, governmental pamphlets, ephemeral sheets, etc. relating to the Union and printed in the North during the Civil War. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
Date published: 1977
Description: Edited and with an introduction by David Harry Miller and William W. Savage, Jr. A very fine copy with dust jacket. A reknown work by one of the foremost scholars in American history, Frederick Jackson Turner. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York
Date published: 1962
Description: First edition, ninth printing. Signed by the author. 339pp. Maps, illustration, index. Cream cloth lettered and decorated in red, gold and brown. A fine copy with spine-darkened pictorial dust jacket. Story of the main covered-wagon route to California. Part of the American Trails series. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
Date published: 1968
Description: First edition. xiii [1] 287pp. Frontispiece portrait, numerous photographs, 2 maps. Index. Light blue cloth. Minor darkening to upper edge of front cover, else a fine copy. Murray became a part of the political history of Oklahoma and Texas. He was lawyer, President of the Constitutional Convention, Speaker of the House, Governor of Oklahoma during the depression, etc. He was an "Agrarian" and wrote that the only way to save the country was the extension of the family farm. Basically, this work ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date published: 1999
Description: First edition. 431pp. Red and blue boards in dust jacket. Spine and dust jacket worn at ends of spine and lesser so at corners. A very good copy. The final volume of The Last Picture Show / Texasville story. Follows those of the characters of The Last Picture Show who have survived into their twilight years. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
Date published: 1954
Description: Softcover. SIGNED by the author. Octavo. 129pp. Illsutrated throughout with line drawings. Stiff printed yellow wrappers. Minor shelfwear, else a fine copy. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bramhall House, New York
Date published: 1957
Description: Large octavo. 224pp. Index. Black & white illustrations throughout. Green cloth with black lettering on spine. Spine slightly faded, minor wear to spine ends. A very good copy in worn pictorial dust jacket. A complete guide to small silver-smithed goods. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Date published: 1909
Description: Flagg, James Montgomery. First edition. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg. Gilt-lettered green cloth. Spine ends very lightly rubbed. Previous owner's name on endpaper. A fine copy. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co., New York
Date published: 1925
Description: First edition. xix, [3], 330pp. 8 plates, endpaper map; bibliography, index. Blue cloth, gilt. A fine copy. Study of the far-reaching effect that the lure of the wealth of the Far East had in building the American nation, stimulating its westward expansion, and determining it foreign policy. Much on New England sea trade, California and Oregon, the Gold Rush, Hawaii, etc. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City
Date published: 1916
Description: Gilbert, C. Allan. First edition. Full color frontispiece by C. Allan Gilbert. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Minor spotting to covers, some very light wear, and spine is lightly faded and just a bit cocked. Previous owner's ink inscriptions irradicated from front free endpaper and from table of contents page. A very good copy. Read More
