Briggs john ely (154 risultati)

Staple-bound Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Crisp, clean pages; stapled binding secure. Soft cover has tiny corner creases and small wrinkles at the spine head, otherwise excellent. 32pp. Articles include "Indian Affairs in 1845" by John Ely Briggs, "Crying in the Bottoms" by J. Leland T. Mitchell, and "The Powder House Explo…

Staple-bound Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Pages clean except for a bit of spotting on first and final pages; stapled binding secure; soft cover shows light edgewear at spine ends and foreedges, otherwise excellent. 32pp., b/w photo frontis. Articles about David Rorer, including "A Rare Man" and "An Eloquent Plea" by John El…

Staple-bound Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Pages crisp and clean; stapled binding secure. Soft cover shows only gentle folds along the edges and light chipping at spine ends; otherwise excellent. 32pp., illustrated in black-and-white. Articles include: "Phil Stong's 'Hawkeyes'" by Ruth A. Gallaher; "No Convention in 1840" by…

Softcover. Condizione: Good. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; the soft cover shows several small edge tears and folds around yapped edges, a crease and some sunning along the spine, and a small, triangular mark at the right front, otherwise well-kept. Alphabetical index of subjects and authors, covering Iowa's popular histo…

Staple-bound. Condizione: Good. Two pages bear underlining and notes in pen, but pages are otherwise clean; binding staples are lightly rust-stained, and the cover shows a short, closed tear at the spine head, gray handling smudges front and back, and inward folds at the yapped edges, otherwise well-kept. 40pp. Articles by Willi…

Staple-bound. Condizione: Good. A date penned at the lower front of the cover and a library's ink stamps on the front cover, reverse of frontispiece, and title page, otherwise clean; binding remains secure; soft cover shows a few small edge folds and chips, otherwise sound. 32pp. Articles include: "Vanished Hosts" by E. D. Nauma…

Softcover. 12mo; original stapled & printed brown wrappers. Articles on Kelley's Army and the Populist movement. In 1894, Gen. Charles T. Kelly took command of this "industrial army" of 600 unemployed men in Oakland, California with the plan of crossing the country to Washington, D.C. in order to petition Congress. It attained i…

Softcover. 12mo; original stapled & printed brown wrappers. Articles: A Confederate Spy by Bruce Mahan on Thomas J. Chew of Cascade; Ventures in Wheat by J. M. D. Burrows on wheat speculation by pioneer commission merchant James E. Woodruff adapted from Burrows' Fifty Years in Iowa. Ex-lib; small stamps on upper & lower edge of…

Softcover. 12mo; original stapled & printed brown wrappers; b&w portrait photo and accomanying piece on Robert J. "Bob" Burdette, humorist. Also: Grasshoper Times on the ravages of Rocky Mountain locusts in O'Brien County 1873-79, as related by one of its victims, Thomas Barry, in an article by Josephine Barry Donovan. Ex-lib; s…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Brown soft covers. Articles include On River and Highway by William J. Petersen, Plumbe's Railroad to the Moon by Jack T. Johnson, The Fort Madison Patriot by John Ely Briggs, James Gardiner Edwards by Philip Jordan, and A Commonplace Calendar by John Ely Briggs. B & w prints. Int. good.…

Staple-bound. Condizione: Very Good-. Clean except for a few pale gray handling smudges and modest rust spotting at the binding staples; no owners' marks; soft cover shows a few tiny tears and light folding around the outside edges, otherwise very well-kept. 36pp. Articles include: "In Honor of the Flag" by J.D. Edmundson, "Iowa…