Camels to California - A Chapter in Western Transportation de Fowler, Harlan D - 1950

Stanford University Press. Small chip to rear cover. . Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1950.

Stanford University Press, 1950T. paperback. Good. .

Stanford University Press, 1950. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. A rare copy of this book. Binding tight. Pages not marked by notes or highlighting. Some dings to the corners and spine. A nice copy. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily.

Hardcover. Very Good. Wraps, G+, ill, 93pps, some wear and minor chipping to paper covers, 1st edn.

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book and dustjacket are near fine. First edition

paperback. illus., folding map. 93pp. 8vo, pr. wrs.; (tear to back wr.). (Ann Arbor: Univ. Microfilms, 1970). A xeroxed facsimile.<br/><br/>

Stanford University, CA: Stanford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 93 pages; Price clipped dust jacket with light rubbing, some darkening and wear, book is in otherwise fine condition. .

Stanford U. Press, 1950. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover..

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1950 First edition. 93pp. Illustrated with 18 plates. Yellow cloth printed in brown. Spine ends lightly worn, very minor general shelfwear, else a near fine copy. Lacking dust jacket. Traces this experiment in transportation from its inception in the mind of Edward Fitzgerald and Jefferson Davis, through the procuring and transporting of the camels, and on to the myths surrounding the whole episode..

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Small 4to. Yellow cloth with brown lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 93pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/good only. Jacket quite edgeworn, with many edge chips. Tight, nice first edition of this tale of a bizarre 1857 attempt to bring camels to California on a route through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Handsomely signed and inscribed by the author in blue ballpoint on an inner flyleaf: "Compliments / of / Harlan D. Fowler / Christmas -- 1952." Laid in is a glossy pictorial 3¼" X 1½" "Joy at Christmas" gift tag on which he pens, "To / Netty and Stanley / From Dorothy -- Harlan." Fowler (1895-1982) was a noted aeronautical engineer and inventor best remembered for the still-used Fowler flap. Signed copies of this title are quite uncommon.