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[STAGECOACH PRESS] RITTENHOUSE, Jack (1912–1991). Collection of Thirty-Three Stagecoach Press Titles, a TLS from Rittenhouse, and Sixteen Issues of “La Gaceta”. Los Angeles/Houston/Santa Fe, et al: The Stagecoach Press, 1946–67. 12mo/8vo. LIMITED EDITION SERIES. A large collection of 33 of the first 50 Stagecoach Press publications beginning with Rittenhouse’s first effort, A Guide Book to Highway 66 (1946); a TLS from Rittenhouse to a Mr. George A. Caldwell dated Sept. 27, 1980, discussing the book trade and how “books are tricky things to buy and sell”; and a complete run (16 issues) of La Gaceta: El Boletin del Corral de Santa Fe Westerners Vol. I, No. 1– Vol. IV, No. 4 (Stagecoach Press, Oct. 1963– October 1966). Titles in this collection, all in fine condition (with dust jackets) that include: Plans and Dimensions of U.S. Mail Wagon of 1880 by A.S. Dodd (1951); The History of Drilling Mud (1954); The Man Who Owned too Much (1958); Narrative of the Surrender of…Fort Fillmore… by James Cooper McKee (1960); Santa Fe Trail: First Reports, 1825 by Augustus Storrs (1960); Confederate Victories in the Southwest (done for Horn & Wallace, 1961); Act of Enchantment by Lawrence Clark Powell (1961); Carriage Hundred, a Bibliography… (1961); New Mexico Civil War Bibliography (1961); Baca’s Battle by V.B. Beckett (1962); Fallen Guidon by Edwin Adams Davis (1962); Mines of the Old Southwest by Rex Arrowsmith (1963); From Where the Sun Now Stands (1963; first trade edition limited to 650 copies); The Great Endurance Horse Race by Jack Schaefer (1963); A Desperado in Arizona, 1858–1860 by Jonathan H. Greene (1964); Old Mining Camos of New Mexico, 1854–1904 by Fayette Jones (1964); Over the Santa Fe Trail, 1857 by William B. Napton (1964; smaller format with frontispiece); Outlaw Days at Cabezón (1964); Cabezón, a New Mexico Ghost Town (1965); Indian and Mission Affairs in New Mexico, 1773 by Pedro Fermín de Mendinueta (1965); Early Days of a Cowboy on the Pecos by James F. Hinkle (1965); Diary of an Excursion to… Gran Quivira by James H. Carleton (1965); Early Railroad Days in New Mexico, 1880 by Henry Allen Tice (1965); Cartridge & Firearms Historical Album (1966); A Surgeon’s Report on Socorro, N.M., 1852 by John F. Hammond (1966); News from Fort Craig, N.M., 1863 by Andrew Ryan (1966); An Unwritten History: a Record from the Exciting Days of Early Arizona by Edward Wilson (1966); Indian Agent in New Mexico, 1870 by W.F.M. Arny (1967); Border Comanches by Marc Simmons (1967); My Life With the Army in the West, 1858–1898 by James E. Farmer (1967); and The Extranjeros: Selected Documents from the Mexican Side of the Santa Fe Trail, 1825–1828 by David J. Weber (1967). Publisher’s cloth or wrappers, original dust jackets. A FINE COLLECTION. [Together with:] two limited edition Southwestern titles from small presses including Santa Fe and the Far West (Los Angeles: printed for Glen Dawson, 1949; 200 copies); and The Whipple Report… by A.W. Whipple (Westernlore Press, 1961). The Stagecoach Press was noted for issuing historically valuable publications relating to the Southwest, in very limited editions, all handsomely printed on a small hand press by Rittenhouse himself.