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TABOR'S MATCHLESS MINE AND LUSTY LEADVILLE
Denver, CO: Bancroft Booklets, 1960. Revised Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 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". (more information)
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$10.00
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THE GRAPPLE: A Story of the Illinois Coal Region
Boston: L.C. Page, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Arthur W. Brown. Decorative, pictorial cloth binding lightly rubbed at edges. pp: 415, (8); color frontispiece. "Being the history of a man who, having himself come up from the miner's pick, having the profoundest sympathy for the men, the Union, and all it stands for, and has done for Labor, yet single-handed and alone, successfully withstood the encroachments of the Mine Workers' Union, and the unjust demands of its leaders." 7.75" x 5". (more information)
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$35.00
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THE GRAPPLE: A Story of the Illinois Coal Region Boston: L.C. Page, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Arthur W. Brown. Pictorial binding. pp: 415, (8); colored frontispiece. "Being the history of a man who, having himself come up from the miner's pick, having the profoundest sympathy for the men, the Union, and all it stands for, and has done for Labor, yet single-handed and alone, successfully withstood the encroachments of the Mine Workers' Union, and the unjust demands of its leaders." 7.75" x 5". (more information)
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$75.00
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EL DORADO. Music Composed, Arranged and Conducted by Louis F. Bush. Directed by Tom Tyrrell
San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Collector's bookplate on endpaper. pp: xiv,58,(9); frontispiece. This 72nd Grove Play of the Bohemian Club, an adventure story re the 1849 gold rush, was printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. 9.5" x 6.25". (more information)
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$25.00
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THE TALE OF TANTIUSQUES": An Early Mining Venture in Massachusetts Worcester Press of Charles Hamilton 1902., 1902. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Brittle back cover repaired with archival tape, else near fine. 10" x 6" 29pp First published in the AAS Proceedings, October 30, 1901. Account of the oldest "living" mine in the US, discovered by whites in 1633, in the southern part of Sturbridge, Massachusetts. 1st book edn. Binding is original wraps. (more information)
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$40.00
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ALL METAL LAPIDARY SHOP...COMPLETE IN ONE UNIT...THIS MACHINE USES THE SAME SYSTEM OF CUTTING AND POLISHING STONES
Madera, CA: Charles L. Shimmel, 1936. First Edition. not bound. Fine. Broadside, one page. Gives specifications and describes uses of the machine, priced at $35, $15 for assembly, etc. A photo-engraving shows the assembled unit. 11" x 8.5". (more information)
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$15.00
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PROSPECTING FOR URANIUM Washington: USGPO, 1951. Revised Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: iv, 128; illus from photographs, some color. This pocket manual for the uranium prospector tells how to find and then identify your finds. 5.5" x 4.5. (more information)
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$10.00
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HERE THEY DUG THE GOLD NY: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good. pp: xiv, 315, index; frontispiece, 16pp illus from photographs, endpaper maps. Chronicles the Pike's Peak Gold Rush of 1859 and life in the mining camps. Includes much on Horace and Baby Doe, Augusta Tabor, and William Green Russell as well as the Native Americans, gambling, desperadoes, theaters, etc. 8.25" x 5.5". (more information)
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$20.00
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