Decker Alvin (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Signed by the author at the title page with a brief inscription but no named dedicatee, this copy has crisp, bright, clean pages, square, secure binding, and just a hint of rubbing at the corners of the otherwise clean and excellent soft cover. Nearly as new. 70pp. Iowa author.; Signed by Author.

92p., 8x11 inch gay erotica magazine in very good condition. SM, Bondage, and Rough Trade/Leathermen, stories, news, reviews, art, personal ads.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 246 pp., bibliography, index. spine creased, light cover wear & discoloration, corners bumped, foxing (age spots) inside covers & on 1st & last blank pages, foxing on outside fore-edge 0.0.

48 issues in 6 volumes. [Approx. 1150 pp (issues & vol. runs separately paginated).], including biennial indexes for each volume. With colour plates, illustrated ads, inserted ads, photo illustrations, maps (issues were printed on varying grades and types of paper over this 10 year run, so some are a little toned, and there are a few colour-tinted publisher's inserts). Uniformly bound in burgundy-coloured simulated calf, gilt lettering & ruling on spines (a couple issues w/ minor tears, and wear to corners), still an excellent set, bound and from the library of William Henry Bishop (b. 1922), w/ TLS laid-in from Peter Decker on letterhead addressed to Bishop, Shelburne Hotel, New York dated March 16, 1954, including New York Posse Membership No. 117 on the laid-in card, as well as 4 ff. mimeographed copy of The Westerners by-laws. First editions, of this complete run of the first 10 years of The Westerners Brand Book quarterly which included articles and memoirs by some of the most significant Western historians of the 19th & 20th Centuries. Articles ranged in topics from the Hudson's Bay Company fur traders to Western Knives, along with outlaws, gunfighters, pioneering families, and Western artists. A number of articles detail the lives, mistreatment, and condition of American Indians, including those of the Umpqua, Cheyenne, Sioux, Pawnee, as well as Indian Health Service, military campaigns, and more. At the time of Bishop's acceptance as a Westerners New York Posse member, he was managing the Alaska Livestock & Trading Co. sheep & cattle ranch at Chernofski Harbor on Unalaska Island, which encompassed 120,000 acres, as well as executive with Oregon Worsted Co. The Westerners were originally founded in Chicago by Leland Case, Don Russell, Ray Allen Billington, Elmo Scott Watson and others, but quickly grew to include Corrals in Denver, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., London, and others, with the groups publishing articles, and reviews.