Connelley William, Signed (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. THIS IS A REASONABLE READING COPY. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint edition inscribed by Homer Croy of Connelley's classic history of the guerilla bands led by William Quantrill wreaking havoc in Kansas-Missouri border regions before and during the Civil War. Signed by Homer Croy ("born of poor parents and following in their foot steps") on a tipped in Civil War Book Club page. Maroon cloth, 542 pages, illustrated. Edgewear on dust jacket, pretty heavy on fore edge of the spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Book Club. NOT an ex library book. Signed by Homer Croy, who wrote the3 introduction, on the special signature page. Bookpklate on front endpaper. 542 pages. Dust jacket has peeling, wear on spine ends, price is not clipped. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Cover is in excellent condition, save for minimal corner bumping and some rubbing to front cover. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout, save for signature and inscription of Homer Croy (author of the introduction to this edition), on dedication page. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated (illustrator). This book has a black dj with red and white lettering on the front and spine. Homer Croy, who wrote the introduction, signed the book on the front endpaper. This book is reprinted from the 1910 edition; it tells the story of Northern-born William Quantrill, who posed as a Southerner and fought for the Confederacy. 542 pages; approx. 6"x9". Book is in very good condition with light wear; jacket is in good condition with rubbing, wear, soil and some tanning. Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 475 pp.+ Photo Plt at Frontis & 2 FoldMaps, Blue Hardback, Gilt title, TEG, ex lib perfs title page but little else hurt, VG, no DJ, 1st ed (Major figure in Pioneer Kansas & the West) (Signed by Preston Plumb). Signed by Author(s).

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (in mylar). Plates/Engravings/Maps (illustrator). Civil War Book Club Edition. Retired library copy, usual stamps, stickers, labels, and markings. else very clean and tight. Author's ink signature on limitation page; Small light brown (coffee colored?) stain along front edge. Light folding to head of spine and bumping to foot, bumped top corners, one library label on spine. Unclipped dust jacket, moderate chip to foot of spine, folding to head of spine, slightly rubbed, wear to corners. 539pp., including index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Homer Croy. Ex-Library, Hardcover.

Signed with note by author of introduction, Homer Croy. Reprint of earlier 1909 edition. Spine sunned, one corner bumped, still a very good copy. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. Signed by Author. Reprint Edition. Hardcover, dust jacket, 542 pp, b&w illustrations, rubbing and edgewear to jacket with some shallow chips to DJ edges, else a clean and very good copy. Protected in a Brodart cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Charles R Morehead of El Paso Texas, contributor of narrative on pages 600-622. Inscribed to Hon DuVal West, a district judge for the Western District of Texas. Pages clean and without tears. Boards clean. Slight shelf wear and fraying to edges and corners. Very good condition other than both end board creases cracked on inside, binding is still holding pages tight. Age related browning to pages. Map between pages 648-649 is torn at pastedown and has creases. Around 70 illustrations; 670 pages Two fold-out maps. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED by author Frank A. Root with an inscription to his friend A. S. Hughes. Hardcover. Brown cloth with stamped designs in black and gilt. Octavo. Frontis. [xvii] 630pp with numerous illustrations and folding route map. Internal hinges starting but sound. Map separated along a vertical fold. Small historical society ink stamp and blind stamp to copyright page. Howes R434, Six Guns 1897. "The original is very rare and is considered the standard history of the early stage lines. It has some information on stagecoach robberies, Wild Bill Hickock and Joseph Slade." Six Guns. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illus. , maps, inscribed and signed by Hazelett ; 176 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original deluxe binding. Half tan leather over marbled boards with gilt to spine. Patterned end papers. Octavo. Frontis. [xvii] 630pp with numerous illustrations and folding route map. "The original is very rare and is considered the standard history of the early stage lines. It has some information on stagecoach robberies, Wild Bill Hickock and Joseph Slade." Six Guns 1897. Howes R434, Streeter 3117. Provides a detailed and vivid account of the Overland Stage Company and the Pony Express, offering firsthand anecdotes, frontier sketches, and biographical notices of key figures involved in stage and mail transport across the plains during the mid-19th century. Of particular value for its early documentation of the Butterfield Overland Despatch and Ben Holladay's stage empire, The Overland Stage to California stands as a cornerstone work in the historiography of Western transportation and the opening of the American frontier. A.S. Hughes appears in this book as one of the pioneers in the service of the overland stage line. A handwritten inscription on the title page reads "G. Hughes from A.S. Hughes Xmas 1901" A gift to Gerald Hughes from his brother A. S. Hughes who, interestingly has blacked out a section of the index about himself that reads "is routed out by his father and sent back East to college; later returns to the West and on the plains". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Eastern Kentucky was in the early stages of settlement at the time of many conflicts with the Indians. Author William E. Connelly, a decedent of an early settler into Eastern Kentucky. Mrs. Jennie (aka "Jenny") Wiley, was taken captive by the Indians and was forced to witness the destruction of her home and the murder and scalping of her family. It is an incredible story of a women who survived the most difficult of events. Also within the book is an account of the Connelly family. The author, grew up in Eastern Kentucky where many of these events occurred and he has included a collection of genealogical accounts of his family and other prominent families of the region. A very interesting book! This copy was professionally restored. A previous owner had the spine replaced and it is an outstanding. The owner had the spine entitled "Eastern Kentucky Papers." His signature is Eugene F. Sellers, May 14, 1934,". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. First edition. SIGNED by the author on a slip of paper affixed to the title page. Decorative brown cloth cover shows minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, joints starting. Loose/torn hinges. Pages are lightly tanned with minor foxing/smudges and a few pencil marks in the margins.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Introduction by Homer Crow who also signed the book. Clipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear, small chips, rubbing along seams, top 1 cm of spine missing. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good, minor wear to top of backstrip. Dark blue cover with gilt lettering. Top page edges gilt. 'United States Senator from Kansas for the Fourteen Years from 1877 to 1891. A Pioneer of the Progressive Movement in America.' Presentation copy signed by the author. Also contains the author's ex-libris bookplate on the front paste-down. 475pp. (loc 710).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Introduction by Homer Crow who also signed the book. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear, small chips. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Pageant Book Company edition. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [2], 6-542, [4] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $7.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and with a few in-text images. Introduction by Homer Croy. Inscribed by Homer Croy on the free front endpaper, with the inscription, "It's an amazing book". Quantrill fought for the Confederacy and then turned to life as an outlaw in the Western United States. This book was first published in 1910, and is now republished in this edition with an introduction by a respected scholar of Western Americana. Jacket has some toning and a small discoloration to the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. 8 vo, 542 pp. Red cloth, gold title with design (crossed pistol and knife) on front cover. Spine faded, gilt dulled. Corners bumped, light wear. Fore and bottom edges uncut. Top edge trimmed. Front hinge weak, rear is solid, binding square. Folding maps may never have been opened. Jacket missing. INSCRIBED "Compliments of the Author William E. Connelley~ " with recipient's name, below, in author's hand:" Charles A Gianini, Pol----(?), N. Y." Mr. Gianini's bookplate of a western explorer in coon-skin cap on horseback is opposite on the front pastedown. "This is.an account of those incidents of the Border Wars in which he and his men were leading characters. All that could be learned of the famous outlaw and his family has been set down.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original light brown pictorial cloth titled in gilt. Xvii, 630pp; tissued frontis, plates, portraits, folding map at rear followed by 1 page ad. Typewritten letter with handwritten additions addressed to Mr. Samuel Kline and signed by Root has been affixed to the front and rear endpage. This letter is dated Jan. 4th, 1902 and mentions several aspects about this book. Hinges cracked, scattered foxing, fraying and splitting to spine ends. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Limited Edition of 160 numbered copies of which this is No. 71. 10.25 x 13.25in. xi. 616pp. + 7 plates and 3 maps. Publisher's three quarter calf over cloth boards with stamped decortion. Spine with 6 raised bands and gilt titling. [HOWES H392]. VERY GOOD in Fair slipcase. The book itself shows the spine tanned, hinges with typical slight loss from opening, handsome former owner bookplate at each paste-down, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and plates are clean and exceptionally unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. The slipcase shows loss from all extremities, but remains sound. As pictured.

FIRST EDITION. JOHN BROWN, Crane, 1900, first edition, some wear and fraying to the extremities of the somewhat soiled spine, light wear to the corner tips, else a good to very good copy. Inscribed by the author to Sheffield Ingalls, Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, 1913-1915, and member of the House of Representatives. Illustrated with maps and drawings.

[HICKOK, "WILD BILL"]. Includes: 1). 44 pages of Handwritten Notes for this book, (in ink, and most on paper 5.5" x 8.5"); 2.) 7 Original Letters to Connelley concerning Wild Bill (4 typed, 3 handwritten, together 13 pages) plus 2 carbons of typed responses by Connelly, and boldly signed by Connelley---two of the letters are from A. D. McCandless, the son of Dave McCandless, famous for the Rock Creek incident; 3.) Approximately 181 pages of typed chapter drafts and notes for the book, many with handwritten corrections and additions, some quite extensive. As he has stated in the book, William E. Connelley spent 42 years gathering material for the book, WILD BILL AND HIS ERA. As Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, he had access to a rich store of information about Hickok, and he personally interviewed many who knew Wild Bill. In publishing his book, he hoped "to give an authoritative history of 'Wild Bill' Hickok." Connelley died in July, 1930, leaving an extensive, unpublished manuscript. His daughter, Mrs. Edith Connelley Clift, had assisted him with the manuscript, and was compelled to finish it and have it published. She wrote the last few chapters, and ultimately left much of her father's notes and manuscript unpublished. As she said in the Editor's Note for the book, "Much that is valuable has been removed, and much that was left has been condensed." As his daughter stated, much that her father had prepared in his manuscript went unpublished, including much interesting and important information. Of this archive, some of this manuscript is exactly as was printed in the book, and much shows an evolution of changes reflected in multiple copies of the same, yet each showing a succession of changes. Of the typescript portion, much went unpublished, and are noted with handwritten notation of it being "Discarded", showing chapter from which it was discarded. A search of bookseller's catalog and auction records shows that one other typed copy of this manuscript has been offered before---by the Eberstadts in catalogue 134:54 in the 1950's, and purchased by Coe for Yale University, describing the work; "The original, complete author's typed manuscript of the only definitive life of Wild Bill. The work is largely unpublished, although some of the material was used in the noted historian's much-abridged book WILD BILL AND HIS ERA, 1933." This manuscript, now in Yale, was a typed carbon copy without any manuscript notations or corrections. Our archive is in very good condition, and protected in a two-inch 3-ring binder. Connelley's extensive handwritten notes and notations lend great value and a special uniqueness to this archive!

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original collection of eight correspondence letters between Meredith T. Moore and William E. Connelley and three documents from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. 1907-1910. Jefferson City, Missouri and Topeka, Kansas. Page dimensions range between about 5 1/2" x 8 3/4" and 8" x 11 3/4" but most of the correspondence is letter size. Twenty-nine pages, complete. Five addressed envelopes, complete. With the exception of one leaf, the letters on written on one side of the paper. Eleven of the pages are on very fragile (poor-quality) paper. These pages have archival document tape repair. The remaining pages are very clean and intact but have slight splitting at the fold lines. William E. Connelley (1855-1930) was a well-known historian on the American West. He wrote a number of books and contributed to many periodicals. In the early 1900s, he conducted research on the true identity of Josiah Ramsay (or Ramsey), who, as a youth in Virginia during the 1750s, was kidnapped by Native Americans. Ramsay later lived in Kentucky and Tennessee. Meredith T. Moore, a veteran of the Mexican-American War, was married to a descendant of Ramsay. In these letters, Moore passes along information about Josiah Ramsay to Connelley. The documents from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin also discuss Ramsay and related histories such as the Nickojack Campaign. Letters from Moore are handwritten and signed by him in pencil. Connelley's and the State Historical Society's correspondence are typed in black ink. Also included is a list of surviving veterans from the Mexican-American War that Moore sent to Connelley. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. A collection of volumes, notes, TLS, and drafts relating to William Connelley's "Wild Bill and His Era" with a total of seven items. Overall very good with light sunning to spine of book and light toning and foxing to notes and typed drafts. Items in this collection include: 1) "Wild Bill and His Era - The Life & Adventures of James Butler Hickok" by William Esley Connelley, Late Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society with Introduction by Charles Moreau Harger; New York, Press of the Pioneers, 1933; red cloth boards with gilt lettering on front and spine, 8vo, 229pp; housed in a red and black cloth clamshell box. 2) A custom-made book of duplicated letters, statements and notes collected by William Connelley for his book about Wild Bill. The book has textured red boards with manuscript title label and is bound with string; 170pp. The "duplicate book," as it is titled, is typed and has page numbers and a table of contents. The letters and notes found within contain recollections and accounts of Wild Bill from friends, family and acquaintances. Signed by Connelley on the first leaf in which he has also written in manuscript: "In this duplicate volume the pages do not correspond with the pages in the Original No. 1. In the Original some documents were included of which no copies were made for this volume - William Connelley." A few notes in pencil are also found throughout the book including underlining the account of how Wild Bill got his name (page 77). 3) Early typed draft of Chapter VI, "Wild Bill Kills McCanles" from Wild Bill and His Era, having 44pp with many manuscript annotations in margins and on small sheets of paper attached to draft. 4) Later typed draft of Chapter VI, "Wild Bill Kills McCanles" from Wild Bill and His Era, lengthened to 54pp, fewer manuscript annotations but still some in ink, pencil and colored pencil. 5) Two carbon copies of latest drafts of Chapter VI, "Wild Bill Kills McCanles" from Wild Bill and His Era, each having 39pp and same content, and have no annotations. None of these seem to be the final draft, as the published work includes and excludes content found in these drafts (final published work includes introductory and concluding paragraphs and excludes a couple of detailed accounts seen in the drafts). 6) TLS from Wendell W. McCanles, grandson of David McCanles to Pioneer Press about the chapter regarding his grandfather in Connelley's book. 7) TLS from Rufus Rockwell Wilson to Mrs. Edith Connelley Clift on Pioneer Press letterhead concerning the limited edition printing (dated to October 10, 1932). These items are housed in a black cloth slipcase. An interesting look into Connelley's writing process and the captivating world of Wild Bill Hickok. Please call for more images. ; B & W Illustrations; Signed by Author.