New York: American News Company, 1869. Octavo, 28, (4) pp, in pale green printed paper covers. Attached at inner margin of front cover is a printed message soliciting a review, addressed by hand to the editor of the Boston Journal, and with the remains of a postage stamp (long tear neatly repaired). Shallow chips to margins of covers and some text leaves (no printing affected); small holes to inner margins of covers neatly repaired with clear archival paper; soft vertical crease throughout, bottom margins of text leaves have creases; in all, a good, tight and clean copy of this fragile pamphlet. "In it is presented a clear and calm view of the questions between the Cuban revolutionists and their Spanish oppressors. The cause of Cuba, fairly presented, is one which cannot fail to enlist and hold the sympathies of the people of the United States." Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.

New York & London: Henry G. Langley / Wiley and Putnam, 1844. Second issue, with the dual title page imprint. Two volumes, original dark brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt (vaquero on front covers, Indian with bow and arrow on spines), decorated in blind, fore and top page edges untrimmed. Vol I: pp [2], (xvi), (17)-320, [2] + frontispiece with tissue guard + 2 plates + 1 folding map; 2 illustrations in text. Vol II: pp viii, (9)-318, [4] + frontispiece with tissue guard + 1 map ("Map of the Interior of Northern Mexico") + 2 plates; two vignettes in text. Rebacked, with original spines laid down (some original cloth loss at ends, but lettering intact). Vol I has damp staining to covers, with damp mark to upper half of text throughout, "Commerce" on spine a little rubbed, small hole to front free endpaper, some foxing, occasional mildew spots to upper margins of late leaves, corner tear to pp 207-08 with loss of only a few letters (but not sense), two margin tears neatly repaired. Vol II has endpapers renewed with period paper, some foxing but not staining, lacking first blank leaf?. The plates and tissue guards in both have tanning.The green coloured folding map (" A Map of the Indian Territory, Northern Texas and New Mexico Showing the Great Western Prairies") has a two inch closed tear to lower inner corner very neatly repaired and one misfold, but is otherwise nice and clean. In all, a good solid pair, no owner names, all plates & maps present. One of the landmark books of Western Americana, considered by some authorities as one of the 10 most important. "The Santa Fe Trail ranks with the Chisholm Trail in its historical importance as a place in the West, and Gregg is the classic of that trail and the commerce on it. It was written by a man who spent nine years as a Santa Fe trader and who knew the trail, the varmints and plants along it, the Indians, and his Mexican customers. He kept a diary, and his carefully recorded notes were before him as he wrote the book. It has been source material for all the other books on the Santa Fe Trail and trade." - Jeff Dykes The map, called a "cartographical landmark" by Wheat, is one of the most important of the early Southwest. Flake 3716. Howes G401. Sabin 28712.; 12mo

Chapel Hill: Franklin Street Books, 1993. Inscribed by Author; Cloth and boards. pp (xx), 283. Many photos in text. Fine in fine jacket, and with a good personal inscription to Connie and Leon Rooke. Leon Rooke, a distinguished Canadian short story writer and novelist, was originally from North Carolina and were friends of Ehle since Chapel Hill days. "Frank Porter Graham (October 14, 1886 - February 16, 1972) was an American educator and political activist. A professor of history, he was elected President of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1930, and he later became the first President of the consolidated University of North Carolina system.Graham was an active champion of many liberal causes including academic freedom, economic justice, civil rights, disarmament and world peace. He served on numerous advisory boards for Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, and in 1949 he was appointed by the North Carolina governor to fill a vacant seat in the United States Senate. His effort to win election in the following year turned into a bitter and ultimately unsuccessful struggle with conservative Democrat Willis Smith." In 1951 he was appointed as a United Nations mediator for the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. He pursued that elusive goal for 16 years, and he continued his advocacy work on many other issues, until failing health forced him to retire from public life in 1967." - Wikipedia. John Ehlie was a distinguished North Carolina novelist and author. ; Octavo; Signed by Author

Philadelphia & Chicago: Elliot & Beezley, 1888. Original light brown diagonally fine ribbed pictorial cloth stamped in black & gilt. All edges gilt. Brown on white floral endpapers. (3)-414 pp + one leaf of testimonials + blank leaf. Numerous illustrations in text. Minor cover use; cheap paper sl ightly browned; a bright, near fine copy. Wright III, 4351 notes the Chicago: Downey, 1884, edition of 334 pp and also notes a partially reset edition of 333 pp which is no earlier than 1885. This edition, much expanded, not noted by Wright. On page 337 of this copy begins "Part II. Bodies Without Souls", which contains some factual background to the book, quoting letters, the press, and other documents. A very interesting novel about westward migration in America and the crooked doings of some of the railway companies, by one of the first authors to write about his experiences as a cowboy. Quotes many letters of C.P. Huntington.