Add this copy of The Southwest Historical Series. (12 Volumes, Complete) to cart. $1,750.00, like new condition, Sold by Argonaut Book Shop rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1931 by Arthur H. Clark Company.
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Fine. Book First edition. The first major series published after the company's move to Glendale. One of only 866 sets. 12 volumes, complete. Plates from engravings, lithographs, photographs; folding maps. Red cloth lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Very slight rubbing to some spine ends. Light fading to most spines, else a fine set. Exceptional printings of important contemporary accounts of the exploration & settlement of the Southwest. Includes the index volume to the series which was sold only to those purchasing complete sets. Other volumes include "Adventures in the Santa Fe Trade" by Webb; "Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail" by Garrard; "Journal of a Soldier under Kearny & Doniphan" by Gibson; "Pike's Peak Gold Rush Guidebooks of 1859, " "Colorado Gold Rush, 1858-1859, " and more. This set is fairly scarce when found complete. Ralph Bieber edited volumes I-VII. The remaining volumes were edited by LeRoy Hafen. [Clark and Brunet I: 19; Clark and Brunet II: 21; Howes I: S-791; Howes II: S-798].
