1958 Brand Book of the Denver Westerners: Volume XIV (No. 128 of the Regular Edition, limited to 500 copies)

MUMEY, Nolie (editor)

Published by Denver Posse of the Westerners / Johnson Publishing Company, Denver, Colorado / Boulder, Colorado, 1959

About this Item

Number 128 of the 1958 "Regular Edition" of 500 copies, (following the limited "Posse Edition"). The fourteenth in the series of "Brand Books," as issued by the Denver Posse of The Westerners group. These books present historical vignettes, biographical profiles and other historical stories from various places in the American West. In this edition some of the topics covered are: a brief history of saddles, a history of the Denver Mint and a profile of Sacajawea, Indian heroine, along with other topics. The stories are accompanied by black & white photos and drawings. With color frontis painting of a buffalo herd, "The Monarch of the Plains", by Robert Lindneux and drawings at chapter heads by Richard Holley. The edition edited by Nolie Mumey, noted Denver physician, surgeon and prolific author. --- In beige patterned paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth with silver-stamped spine titling & paper title block affixed to front cover with cow skull image. All textblock edges cut roughly, and leaves are tinted pale yellow. Light blue dust jacket with wrap-around image of mounted Indian. --- A clean, bright, tightly-bound copy with slight rusty soiling to endpapers from an old "Bro-Dart" protective wrapper, else lacking damages worthy of mention. Jacket with spine sunning, otherwise intact and protected in new removable mylar wrapper. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for shipments beyond the U.S.); Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; [12], 361 pages.

Seller Inventory # 88597

Bibliographic Details

• Title: 1958 Brand Book of the Denver Westerners: Volume XIV (No. 128 of the Regular Edition, limited to 500 copies)
• Publisher: Denver Posse of the Westerners / Johnson Publishing Company, Denver, Colorado / Boulder, Colorado
• Publication Date: 1959
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • >>History of Colorado & the Old West
  • >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir