COLORADO ARTIFACTUAL

Where the Past is acquired today.

Colorado Artifactual

COLORADO ARTIFACTUAL

[formerly, MT. GOTHIC TOMES]

 
Rare books: Colorado History; antique maps & photographs; historic artifacts.  First editions: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and other literature.  Signed and inscribed copies in original dust jackets a specialty.
Owner: Brian Levine, who has over thirty-five years experience as a Colorado historian, writer, researcher, museum curator, and preservationist.
“Where the past is acquired today.”
 
F. Scott Fitzgerald first editions in original dust jackets
F. Scott Fitzgerald first editions in original dust jackets

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

F SCOTT FITZGERALD first edition first printing original dust jacket TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE 1922

TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first edition, first printing, in first state dust jacket.  Published by Scribners, New York, 1922. 

Price: $40,000.00

COLORADO LITHOGRAPHS

THE BOARD OF TRADE AND MINING EXCHANGE, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1896

COLORADO SPRINGS BOARD OF TRADE and MINING EXCHANGE broadside 1896
Board of Trade & Mining Exchange lithograph, 1895
THE BOARD OF TRADE & MINING EXCHANGE, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
“Sells More Mining Stock Daily Than Any Exchange in America”
Original advertisement
Colorado Springs, Colorado
1896
Published by
The Western Litho. Co.  Price: $1,750.00
 

COLORADO SPRINGS FLOWER CARNIVAL, 1898 LITHOGRAPH

Colorado Springs Flower Carnival map lithograph advertising 1898, Parrish
Colorado Springs Colorado Flower Carnival 1898 advertising lithograph

Original Colorado Springs lithograph, printed in 1898, regional advertising, designed and illustrated by Thomas C. and Anne Parrish.  Conservation framing.  Price: $20,000.00  

COLORADO BOOKS & PAMPHLETS

VICTOR COLORADO WITHIN THE GOLDEN CIRCLE W L Hall Cripple Creek Gold Mining District 1894
WITHIN THE GOLDEN CIRCLE, VICTOR, COLORADO, compiled by W. L. Hall.  One of the earliest publications on Victor, Cripple Creek Gold Mining District, Colorado, 1894.  Price: $1,750.00
Early Days: Noted Occurrences on Line of Colorado Midland Railway book Bush 1894
EARLY DAYS: Noted Occurrences on the Line of the Colorado Midland Railway, 1894.  Price: $995.00
Souvenir of Central City, Black Hawk and Nevadaville, Central Gold Mining District, Gilpin County, Colorado, history book, published in 1900.
SOUVENIR OF CENTRAL CITY, BLACK HAWK, NEVADAVILLE, Gilpin County, Colorado, 1900.  Price: $750.00
1893 Cripple Creek Colorado Gold District Directory
CRIPPLE CREEK COMPLETE DIRECTORY, 1893.  First business directory known to have been published for the Cripple Creek Gold Mining District, Colorado.  Johnson Brothers, Publishers.  Price: $8,500.00
CLIFF DWELLERS OF MESA VERDE Gustav Nordenskiold 1st English edition rare book 1893
THE CLIFF DWELLERS OF THE MESA VERDE, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO; Their Pottery and Implements by Gustav Nordenskiold, translated by D. Lloyd Morgan.  Published in Stockholm, Sweden, 1893.  Price: $7,000.00
LEADVILLE LAKE COUNTY & GOLD BELT COLORADO by Jay F. Manning first edition book 1895
LEADVILLE, LAKE COUNTY AND THE GOLD BELT, Profusely Illustrated by Jay F. Manning, 1895.  Price: $3,500.00

COLORADO STOCK CERTIFICATES

The Transvaal Gold Mining Company stock certificate #1437 signed by Mollie E. O'Bryan representing mining property in Cripple Creek Colorado 1901
Transvaal Gold Mining Company stock certificate, Cripple Creek, Colorado, signed by Mollie E. O'Bryan, 1901 Price: $2,500.00
BUNKER HILL GOLD AND SILVER MINING COMPANY stock certificate Irwin Ruby District Colorado 1892
Bunker Hill Gold & Silver Mining Company, Irwin, Ruby District, Gunnison County, Colorado, 1892. Price: $1,250.00
Gold Glen Mining Milling and Tunnelling Company Colorado stock certificate Clear Creek County 1908
Gold Glen Mining, Milling & Tunnelling Company, Chicago Creek, Clear Creek County, Colorado, 1908. Price: $2,500.00
ASPEN MINING & SMELTING COMPANY stock certificate, Aspen, Colorado August 1892
Aspen Mining & Smelting Company, owned by Jerome B. Wheeler, Aspen Silver Mining District, Pitkin County, Colorado. Price: $850.00
WHEEL OF FORTUNE CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. STOCK CERTIFICATE, SNEFFELS DISTRICT, OURAY COLORADO 1882
Wheel of Fortune Consolidated Mining Company, Ouray, Colorado, 1882, with prospectus. Price: $1,500.00
Tellurium Mining Company stock certificate, Holy Cross Spur, Tellurium District, Eagle County Colorado, 1882
Tellurium Mining Company, Holy Cross Mining District, Eagle County, Colorado, 1882. Price: $675.00

COLORADO MAPS

Nell's Topographical Map of the State of Colorado, published in 1895, in original burgundy cloth covers
Nell's Topographical Map of the State of Colorado, published in 1895, in original burgundy cloth covers

NELL’S MAP OF COLORADO, by cartographer Louis Nell, published in 1895.  Map is housed in its original gold-printed, burgundy cloth covers.  Considered one of the most reliable and accurate Colorado maps produced between 1880 and 1907.  Price: $2,250.00.

MAP OF COLORADO indexed Rand McNally pocket map with booklet 1881
MAP OF COLORADO indexed Rand McNally pocket map with booklet 1881

MAP OF COLORADO, published in 1881 by Rand McNally.  Indexed pocket map in original gold-printed brown cloth covers.  Example of a Colorado pocket produced from the 1870s through the 1920s.  Price: $3,950.00

BLUE RIVER GOLD FIELDS & SWANDYKE MINING DISTRICT SUMMIT COUNTY COLORADO maps Widmar & Dill 1900
BLUE RIVER GOLD FIELDS & SWANDYKE MINING DISTRICT SUMMIT COUNTY COLORADO maps Widmar & Dill 1900

Blue River Gold Fields & Swandyke Mining District, Summit County, Colorado.  By Widmar & Dill, 1900.  Pocket map with two maps and accompanying printed details. 

 

Price: $3,000.00

COLORADO PHOTOGRAPHS

Colorado saloon original photographs Denver Northwestern Bar Sam Peterson 1909
Colorado saloon original photographs Denver Northwestern Bar Sam Peterson 1909

The Denver Northwestern Bar, 1909, Sam Petersen, proprietor.  Located in Kremmling, Colorado, along the route of The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railroad.  Two original photographs — saloon exterior and interior — in this lot.  Price: $1,500.00

NEVADAVILLE CENTRAL GOLD MINING DISTRICT COLORADO mammoth-sized photograph Lachlan McLean 1877
NEVADAVILLE CENTRAL GOLD MINING DISTRICT COLORADO mammoth-sized photograph Lachlan McLean 1877

NEVADAVILLE, CENTRAL GOLD MINING DISTRICT, GILPIN COUNTY, COLORADO

Altitude: 9,000 feet
Circa 1877
Original mammoth-sized albumen photograph
by
LACHLAN McLEAN, Central City, Colorado
McLEAN had a photographic studio in Central City, Colorado from 1876 – 1878.  Price: $15,000.00
Exchequer Bonanza Mining District Saquache County Colorado stereoview photograph Charles Goodman 1881
Exchequer Bonanza Mining District Saquache County Colorado stereoview photograph Charles Goodman 1881

Town of Exchequer, located in the Bonanza Mining District, Saguache County, Colorado, stereo view photograph by Charles Goodman, 1881.  Price: $750.00

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS First edition, first printing, in first issue dust jacket, Scribner’s, 1940, “A” on copyright page, and no photographer’s name listed under Hemingway photograph.  Very good plus condition in a very good plus dust jacket.
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS First edition, first printing, in first issue dust jacket, Scribner’s, 1940, “A” on copyright page, and no photographer’s name listed under Hemingway photograph.  Very good plus condition in a very good plus dust jacket.
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS First edition, first printing, in first issue dust jacket, Scribner’s, 1940, “A” on copyright page, and no photographer’s name listed under Hemingway photograph.  Very good plus condition in a very good plus dust jacket.
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS First edition, first printing, in first issue dust jacket, Scribner’s, 1940, “A” on copyright page, and no photographer’s name listed under Hemingway photograph.  Very good plus condition in a very good plus dust jacket.

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest Hemingway, inscribed by Hemingway to Benetta M. Sciutto at a wedding party in California, 1940.  First edition, first printing, in first state dust jacket.  Price: $35,000.00

We purchase exceptional copies of books by such authors like: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ben Hecht, Gene Fowler, Eugene O’Neill, Sir Roger Penrose, Steven Weinberg, Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Maxwell Bodenheim, etc.

Contact us at:  Colorado Artifactual, P.O. BOX 3048, CRESTED BUTTE, CO 81224-3048

Land: 970 349 7079  Cell: 720-561-9392 
The Silverton Railroad annual pass 1888, original buckskin pass signed by Otto Mears as president
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad special S.K. Hooper gold, platinum & diamond pin and gold railroad pass 1890
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad gold pin & gold pass, S. K. Hooper, 1890 & 1900
Old Homestead Whiskey, John Rozich Saloon, Crested Butte, Colorado, ca. 1899
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