Bailey, Robert G.  River of No Return (The Great Salmon River of Idaho). Lewiston, ID: R.G. Bailey Printing Company, 1947. Revised Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Very scarce in dust jacket. A Century of Central Idaho and Eastern Washington History and Development, together with the Wars, Customs, Myths, and Legends of the Nez Perce Indians. Jacket has some rather large chips, including 1" at the top of the spine. 

$350.00

Beal, Merrill D. And Wells, Merle W. History of Idaho. Complete in 3 Volumes. NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1959. First Edition. 4to. Hard Cover. Very nice copy, little wear to boards. 

$950.00

Behr, Alice and Ward, Maureen, eds. The History of Richfield, Idaho. Jerome, ID: Jerome Print Shop (1995). Very Good. Indexed history of Richfield, Idaho- "The Biggest Little Town in Idaho." Scarce.

$60.00

(Cassia-Oakley Stake) Kimber, Lyman and Eula, eds. The First One-Hundred Years: The Cassia-Oakley Idaho Stake. 1987. Scarce regional and LDS church history.

$75.00

Elliott, Wallace W. & Co.  History of Idaho Territory Showing Its Resources and Advantages with Illustrations Descriptive of Its Scenery, Residences, Farms, Mines, Mills, Hotels, Business Houses, Schools, Churches, Etc.  San Francisco: Wallace W. Elliott & Co, 1884 Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Facsimile Edition. Folio. Facsimile reprint from Ye Galleon Press, 1973, of the earliest of the Idaho histories.

SOLD     $475.00

Elsensohn, Sister M. Alfreda.  Pioneer Days in Idaho County. Two Volumes Complete.  Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1965 Hard Cover. Very Good with Good Dust Jacket. 8vo. Both volumes are second printings. Both jackets have some edgewear and fading to the spines. Books are clean and tight.

SOLD     $200.00

Fisher, Vardis, Ed. Idaho: A Guide in Word and Picture.  Prepared By Federal Writer's Projects of the Works Progress Administration. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1937. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Tight and square copy, with unobtrusive library stamp on title page, and some cracking to the rear hinge. Jacket has some large chips, particularly on the spine. Still very scarce in jacket. No map.      SOLD

$250.00

Fisher, Vardis, Ed. (Federal Writer's Project). The Idaho Encyclopedia. Compiled By the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1938. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Very bright copy, with just a bit of wear to the boards. Bookplate to the pastedown endpaper.

$575.00

French, Hiram T. History of Idaho : A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People, and its Principal Interests. Chicago: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1914. First Edition. 3 Vols, 4to. Full Leather. Very Good Full-leather boards with gilt-titles on spine, and marbled page edges. Some wear to extremities of leather, and spines are faded to varying degrees.                                  SOLD    $850.00

Greenwood, Annie Pike. We Sagebrush Folks. NY: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Some chipping to edges of dust jacket. Still, nice.

$75.00

Hailey, John. History of Idaho. Boise, ID, U.S.A.: Syms-York Company, 1910. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Very square and tight copy. Exteriors beautiful. A few pages underlined within. 

$500.00

Hawley, James H.  History of Idaho : Gem of the Mountains.  Chicago: S.J. Clarke Company, 1920 Hard Cover. Very Good. First Edition. 4to. Beautiful condition. Green cloth. 

$875.00

McCleod, Geo. A.  History of Alturas and Blaine Counties, Idaho. Hailey, ID: Hailey Times, 1938. Revised Edition. 12mo. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Very Good. Previous owner's name to paste-down end paper.

SOLD     $250.00

(Lemhi County History Committee). Centennial History of Lemhi County, Complete in Three Volumes. Salmon, ID: Lemhi County History Committee. Very Good.                                                         

$200.00

McCleod, Geo. A.  History of Alturas and Blaine Counties, Idaho. Hailey, ID: Hailey Times, 1950. Third Edition. 12mo. Hard Cover.  Very Good.

$175.00

Salmon, D.E. and Carman, Ezra A.  Special Report on the History and Present Condition of the Sheep Industry in the United States.  Washington, DC: USGPO (1892).  Very Good condition.

$275.00

Sherlock, Patty. Alone on the Mountain: Sheepherding in the American West.  NY: Doubleday (1979). Very Good in a Very Good jacket, with some edgewear. Wonderful elegy to the Western sheepherder.

$75.00

Idaho: A Guide in Word and Picture  Prepared By Federal Writer's Projects of the Works Progress Administration

The Idaho edition of the WPA Guide is the most sought after volume of the American Guide Series. Much to the chagrin of the Administration that sponsored the series, Idaho was the first guide published, due primarily to the will of its creator and editor, state historian Vardis Fisher. According to Fisher, the administration in Washington D.C. was unhappy as he neared completion of the project, as they had hoped to lead-off the series with a more "important" state.  In an attempt to slow him down, two government agents were sent by train from Washington to Twin Falls, Idaho, with the intention of bringing him more work.  Fisher, hearing of the imminent arrival of the agents, countered by sending two of his own assisstants to meet them at the Twin Falls train station.  Fisher's men were under orders to keep the agents away from where Fisher worked. Immediately after meeting at the train station, the four men took a tour of the Twin Falls local bars... a tour that lasted two days.  The agents got right back on their train at the end of two days, never having so much as set eyes on Fisher - leaving him free to complete the work.  Today, the fact that Idaho was the first of the illustrious American Guide Series to be published (along with the destruction of much of the First Edition in a warehouse fire) has made the Idaho guide the series' most collectible title.