Resultados de búsqueda: Americana/Regional Interest from Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.

Indianapolis, Indiana: Genealogical Section of the Indiana Historical Society, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound in blue buckram cloth, and with toned but unmarked, clean interior. Explanatory Preface by the author/compiler and with all abbreviations for this, the fourth U.S. Census.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Egg Harbor City, New Jersey: Atlantic County Historical Society, 1963. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Jack E. Boucher. One of 1,000 copies in a Limited Edition but unnumbered and thus out of series. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, blue linen cloth over boards, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, fetching gilt illustration of a lighthouse to front cover, stamped quite distinctly. Brilliant of interior, clean and unmarked, no rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond slight scuffing to spine head and foot, machine- but not price-clipped. Some dust jackets with very faint blue spots from the printing process. A fine and accessible social history of part of the Pine Barrens of South Jersey (but made infamous by a The Sopranos episode), complete with accounts of aboriginal times when the Absegami Native Americans inhabited the area all the… Leer más

Berkeley, California: University of California, Berkeley, 1911. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally set of individual contributions to Volume II of this influential and important academic journal of Western Americana. Tape-repaired Prospectus of Volume II is laid in, being eight pages, staple-bound and listing the illustrations in the volume. Robert Selden Rose contributes "The Portola Expedition of 1769-1770, Diary of Vicente Vila," Porter Garnett contributes "Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851, II," then an essay by Herbert Eugene Bolton follows, "Expedition to San Francisco Bay in 1770, Diary of Pedro Fages," then "The Portola Expedition of 1769-1770, Diary of Miguel Costanso," by Frederick J. Teggart, and finally, Charles Edward Chapman adds "Expedition on the Sacramento and an Joaquin Rivers in 1817, Diary of Fray Narcisco Duran." Each individual contribution is… Leer más

Cleveland, Ohio: Arthur H. Clark Co, 1906. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. But for two round and faint scuffs to front cover of first volume, particularly nice-looking exemplars of the four- volume run, reprinted from Volumes XIV, XV, XVI and XVII of Thwaites's Early Western Travels: 1748-1846. These four volumes comprise a portion of Reuben Gold Thwaites's massive 31-volume series on travel in the American West in the 18th and 19th centuries. The title pages continue: "Compiled from the notes of Major Stephen H. Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the party by Edwin James, botanist and geologist to the expedition." Edited with notes, introductions and index by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Stephen H. Long was in 1819-1820 sent to find the source of the Platte River in the Rocky Mountains. Large fold-out map in the first volume depicts the drainage of the Mississippi River, other plates depict in black-and-white, images of people and sights seen during the… Leer más

Moscow, Idaho: Woodland Press, 2001. Bicentennial Commemorative Editi. Hardcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Mike Venso. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Well over one hundred illustrations in full color, printed on high-gloss paper. Topographical maps drawn by Steve R. Russell, fine photography by Mike Venso, after text by James R. Fazio. 203 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine and readable account of the so-called Great Migration west across the Wide Missouri river including to the Oregon Territory. Sturdy, still tightly bound copy, Some but not a lot of wear to, furling of covers, else with clean interior, neither highlighting nor underlining. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxi, 1-450 pp. including full notes, bibliography and index. Maps at rear, unmarked and clean.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Raleigh, North Carolina: W.R. Gales, Register Office, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Scarce in the trade. Ex-library copy with usual markings to spine, endpapers, etc., including remains of paper stickers on covers. Originally softcover, now rebound in black buckram with new endpapers. Text foxed with repairs to the margins of the title and last page; stamping thereto as well. Bishop Davis was the brother of George Davis, the Attorney-General of the Confederate States. Some foxing to title page, notes of accession, etc., but internally clean. 16 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Vantage Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Joe E. Cote. A rollicking, insightful memoir of a man born in 1920 in small-town Massachusetts, and who lived and worked across the country, as merchant marine and millwright, agricultural farm laborer and ranch hand. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Simple brown buckram cloth binding, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 305 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Los Angeles, California: The Zamorano Club, 1964. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Softcover format, being a Fine condition keepsake produced by and for the Zamorano Club members. Penned by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., who provides the Introduction to this reprint edition of the 1842 true First Edition. Quarto in blue paper wraps. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations. xii, 10 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Ashland, Oregon: Published by White Cloud Pr, 2000 , 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author at title page. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Frontis matter + 254 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Light tan, cream binding with red lettering on spine. Drawing of the Alamo on the endpapers front and rear. Five maps plus a small section of black-and-white illustrations. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [4], 5-222 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Portland, Oregon : Binfords & Mort, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned, minimal rubbing to extremities, but forward cock to spine and mostly removed library check-out pocket (though no additional signs of ex-library status). Bound handsomely in a brown sailcloth, with black lettering to front cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but price-clipped, protected by a plastic coat. Map endpapers front and rear, being of Alaska. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter, 2-422 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Seattle, Washington: D.A. Noonan, 1923. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7. D.A. Noonan. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper. Edition not stated, but yet 1921 and 1923 copyrights are listed at copyright page. Sherman Printing and Binding printed this collection of Alaska-themed poetry for the author. Bound in green cloth over boards, gilt-stamped lettering and illustration to front cover, lettering to spine, their stamp inside rear flap at bottom. 146 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

San Francisco, California: The Sierra Club, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. The Sierra Club put this catalogue of photographs together largely from long-deceased peoples and cultures of mostly Western America, mostly California. Both front and rear panels of the dust wrapper are brilliant illustrations of influential Native Americans. Augmented with fine ethnographic but mostly ethnological data including the religious ceremonies distinctive of the Yurok, their World Renewal rites. The lead author is famous for both her studies of "Ishi," the "Last Yahi Indian," and birthing of Ursula Le Guin. Wife also to the first Ph.D. student of "Papa [Franz] Boas," the Polish Jew founder of the Ph.D. program at Columbia University. Robert F. Heizer also was a noted Native Americanist (July 13, 1915 – July 18, 1979), an archaeologist who conducted extensive fieldwork and reporting in California, the Southwestern… Leer más

Montana Magazine, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Joseph Mussulman. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy illustrated wraps. 206 pp. Sumptuously colorful maps drawn by Joseph Mussulman to augment the texts by Barbara Fifer and Vicky Soderberg. Double-column texts and peppered with guidebook-styles as to what to do, where to stay, when to travel, and why.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Lorence F. Bjorklund . Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. Bound handsomely in bluish-teal cloth, sunned a bit at spine to a green, black illustration to front cover, lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat, machine- but not price-clipped. Introduction followed by sections devoted to The Northeast States, The Midwest States, The Mideast States, The Southeast States, The North Central States, The South Central States, state by state. Fine illustrations by Lorence F. Bjorklund. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [9] 10-381 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1008. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. The publisher's blurb has it that "The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States, America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few"renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality, and water supplies-and all… Leer más

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Fair. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. My copy of William Clyde Wilkins' First and Early American Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens (1910, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, privately printed), being a Presentation Copy to A. Edward Newton (!), on p. 24, says "Harper & Brothers, of New York, also published an edition [of this volume] in November, 1842. It was an octavo pamphlet, 92 pages, printed in double columns, with brown paper covers." Indeed. Missing wraps, begins with title page. Heavily toned, a bit soiled to rear panel with a couple of ink blotches and on fore-edge middle. Disbound from a larger volume, stitches evident at spine, some loss of paper thereat. Else an eminently readable account type-set in a small font of Mr. Dickens' trip to the U.S. aboard the H.M.S. Britannia and thence down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers (and horrifyingly so in parts, covering the American South slave states by means of a brief… Leer más

Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution to the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology series. Sterling condition softcover copies, complete in two volumes, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated card stock wraps. Published in First Edition state in 1978. 690 pp., all in, running consecutively, and complete with notes, indexes, and bibliographies. From the publisher's blurb, "The American Railroad Passenger Car recaptures the lost, but not-too-distant past when 98 percent of all intercity travel in the United States was by rail. It documents in extraordinary detail the ingenuity and splendor of the classic trains as well as the rattle and clatter, the dust and cinders of early rail travel. An unparalleled record of changes in taste and technology. With clarity and precision, White explains the… Leer más

Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Foreword by Savoie Lottinville. Some black-and-white illustrations and facsimile letters. 136 pp., with full notes, bibliography and index and appendixes.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.