Copper Queen Publishing (16 results)

Hardback. Condition: VG+. No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. Book is bound in white paper-covered boards with purple spine and photo of an old truck pulling a horse tailer on the front. No defects to note on the book. Book is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on front end page and the author's business card inside front cover. Western memories of the author's life with quips from cowboys. Black and white illustration and photos. 295 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.…

Stapled wraps. Condition: VG+. Paperback in Very Good++ condition. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 48 pages. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. A collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette, Bisbee's colorful newspaper .

SOFTCOVER. Condition: VERY GOOD. NO JACKET. 15TH EDITION. USA: COPPER QUEEN PUBLISHING, 1978. 15TH EDITION. VERY GOOD/NO JACKET. USA: COPPER QUEEN PUBLISHING, 1978. 15TH EDITION. VERY GOOD/NO JACKET. USA: COPPER QUEEN PUBLISHING, 1978. 15TH EDITION. VERY GOOD/NO JACKET. USA: COPPER QUEEN PUBLISHING, 1978. 15TH EDITION. VERY GOOD/NO JACKET. Copper Queen Publishing Company, Bisbee, AZ, 1978. Paperback. Book Condition: Good Plus. STATED FIRST PRINTING. A collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee (Arizona) from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette. Mild sunning to light-blue card covers, and black smudge to back cover. Softcover original. 1ST PRINTING. …

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed. LIKE NEW / VERY GOOD - No creases or tears on spine and/or cover LIKE NEW / VERY GOOD - No missing or damaged pages LIKE NEW / VERY GOOD - No text or writing on the pages or in the margins LIKE NEW / VERY GOOD - No underlining or highlighting of text VERY GOOD - Cover has very minimal wear and tear with no obvious damage VERY GOOD - Zero to Limited corner dings and/or curled corners All items shipped Monday - Friday, fast shipping! Proceeds support the Sierra Vista Public Library.…

Softcover. Condition: Very good. 48 p. 28 cm. B&w illustrations. Stapled.Some soiling to rear cover.

Staple Bound. Condition: Very Good. book slightest worn mark to top corner, mild toning around staple spine, otherwise clean sharp shape.

[ARIZONA]. First edition. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers, 48 pp., acknowledgements and dedication, illustrated, maps, epilogue, glossary, bibliography, additions and errata. The history and photographs surrounding the Warren-Bisbee Railway, that operated from 1908-1928. Covers lightly used else a near fine copy.…

Softcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition, First Printing, Stated. 1978. Copper Queen, Bisbee, Arizona. Paperback: blue-grey pictorial wrappers, light edge & shelf wear, faint even fading. Small marking to corner & very light scattered foxing to title page, else unmarked. Glossy b&w nineteenth-century street photographs, the 1972 Lavender Pit aerial view by Ray Manley & mining camp story illustrations, printed on thick glossy paper throughout. Unpaginated. Quarto. Compiled from the Brewery Gulch Gazette archives by longtime editor William C. Epler w/ historical research by Alice Metz, documenting the copper mining camp of Bisbee, Arizona. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Documenting the origins, municipal expansion, and mineral wealth of early Arizona, Bisbee Vignettes chronicles the historical evolution of one of the premier copper mining camps in the American Southwest. Sourced directly from serialized accounts and archival features in the historic Brewery Gulch Gazette, the text provides a detailed overview of frontier daily life, nineteenth-century commerce along Main Street, and industrial transitions across the Mule Mountains. Narrative passages examine early prospectors in Tombstone Canyon, the formation of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company, and the community traditions that defined Cochise County during its boom decades. Issued in a quarto format with light blue-grey pictorial paper wrappers, the volume carries a nineteenth-century street scene on the front cover. Archival black-and-white photographs appear throughout the work, capturing early mercantile storefronts, mule pack trains, residential settlements along steep canyon slopes, and twentieth-century open-pit operations. Notable visual inclusions include an aerial survey of the Lavender Pit by Tucson photographer Ray Manley alongside period story illustrations depicting frontier humor and local folklore. Published in 1978 by the Copper Queen Publishing Company in Bisbee, Arizona, the work was authored and compiled by veteran journalist William C. Epler, longtime editor of the Brewery Gulch Gazette. Historical fact-checking and archival research were conducted by local historian Alice Metz, integrating pioneer documentation and family records preserved by early residents, including the banking and merchant family of Joseph M. Muheim Jr. Specialized sections document the structural development of the Sacramento and Lavender Pits under Phelps Dodge Corporation management alongside regional accounts of flash floods, mining operations, and civic milestones. Serving as an informative primary-source record of Southeastern Arizona industrial heritage, the publication preserves transient journalistic history and nineteenth-century photography for Western Americana researchers. Academic libraries, regional historians, and mining ephemera specialists utilize the monograph as a specialized reference work for Cochise County local history, early copper extraction technology, and late nineteenth-century mining camp society. Ray Manley (illustrator).…

[ARIZONA]. First edition. Quarto. Blue pictorial wrappers, n.p. (40 pp.), illustrated. A collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette, Bisbee's colorful newspaper. Great photographs and wonderful stories of one of the world's greatest copper camps. Fine copy. …

[ARIZONA]. First edition. Quarto. Blue pictorial wrappers, n.p. (40 pp.), illustrated. A collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette, Bisbee's colorful newspaper. Great photographs and wonderful stories of one of the world's greatest copper camps. Fine copy. …

[ARIZONA]. First edition. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers, 48 pp., acknowledgements and dedication, illustrated, maps, epilogue, glossary, bibliography, additions and errata. The history and photographs surrounding the Warren-Bisbee Railway, that operated from 1908-1928. Fine copy.

[ARIZONA]. First edition. Quarto. Blue pictorial wrappers, n.p. (40 pp.), illustrated. A collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette, Bisbee's colorful newspaper. Great photographs and wonderful stories of one of the world's greatest copper camps. Fine copy. …

[ARIZONA]. First edition. Quarto. Blue pictorial wrappers, n.p. (40 pp.), illustrated. A collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette, Bisbee's colorful newspaper. Great photographs and wonderful stories of one of the world's greatest copper camps. Fine copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. hardback book in near fine condition,signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Inked presentation inscription on the front fly leaf from the author. Two-tone fabricoid with photo on paper label, 320 pp., illustrated. A privately printed collection of personal photographs, cowboy quips, phrases, and cartoons, rodeo-related ephemera, etc. from an Arizona cowboy and rancher who was born in San Carlos in 1924. As new, unread copy without dust jacket, as issued.…