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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 266 pages. First edition. Very good copy in green cloth with bright gold lettering on spine. Mild edge wear. No dust jacket (book in protective wrapper). The diary was begun by Geiger at St. Joseph, Missouri, and continued by Bryarly from the North Platte until their arrival in California and "is remarkably straightforward and articulate, detailed and explicit.(and) maintains spontaneity and enthusiasm which make it consistently readable." - from the preface.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Later Edition. ISBN Hardback. No dustjacket. Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy except for previous owner's name and inscription on front endpapers, with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers, slight bump to top edge of spine cover, some browning to edges of interior pages, minor dustsoiling and waterspotting to cover faces. No statement of later printing on copyright page.

Condizione: Gut. First paperback publication. Bll. + XIX (inkl. Karte,dopp.Seit.) + 266 S. inkl. Anhang mit Appendix, Bibliogr. u. Index. * A Yale Western Americana Paperbound Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 315 8°, OIll.-Softcover/Paperback (TB). Gut erhalten (good). Schnitt u. Papier minimal vergilbt.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Thus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. First edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. xiv, 266 pages, plus frontispiece and folding map at rear. Original cloth. [24.1 cm.] About very good in good only dust jacket. Cloth shows light traces of foxing at head of spine and along top edges of boards, and some minor rubbing to spine ends. Occasional and very light pencil marks in the margins, interior otherwise clean. Jacket has a few small chips, not affecting lettering, including a dime size chip to the base of the spine panel, and some tears with internal tape repairs. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SOUTHERN HISTORIAN, FLETCHER M. GREEN, on the front free endpaper. The inscription indicates he used this copy for his review of the book in "The Emory University Quarterly." [Fletcher Melvin Green (1895-1978) taught at Emory University in the early 1930's before becoming a longtime member of the history faculty at the University of North Carolina (1936-1966) and publishing a number of scholarly books.] A significant account of Gold Rush emigration. Forty-niners Geiger and Bryarly were members of the Charlestown Mining Company of Virginia (organized at present day Charles Town, West Virginia).

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Thus. Reprint. "The only authentic contemporary reco4rds of the epic migration known as the Gold Rush are the journals which a few of the Forty-Niners kept while they were in transit. This book is principally the text of a journal begun by Vincent geiger at St. Joseph, Missouri, and continued by Wakeman Bryarly from the North Platte until his arrival in California. One map on two pages. 266 pages including index. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. Fifth edition. xi, 1155 pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. xi, 1155 pp. New Edition, incorporating corrections from 1985 printing of Fifth Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 212 pp. Original gray cloth covers, lightly soiled. Spine a bit sunned. Corners slightly bumped. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Contents nice.

Hardcover. 1st. Octavo; xiii, 266 pages. Annotated by Professor Bieber to compare/contrast with the account of fellow traveller, Benjamin Hoffman, whose diary is the only other known diary of the Charlestown Company. Kurutz 265. Front hinge cracked, John Weld newspaper review of the book laid in, Very Good copy.

Hard back binding in publisher's original terracotta cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains [xviii] 266 printed pages of text with double page map. Very Good condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with a little soiling to the pale cream ivory paper covers, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [History].