hawgood john editor (4 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Good+. Softcover journal in good plus condition. Article topics include: dedication to James Harvey McClintock; Doctor Gatling's gun; Spanish Indian policy in Northern Mexico 1765-1810; John Auguster Sutter, a reappraisal; cowboy's lament; Robert B. Stanton's plan for the far Southwest; and more. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Journal.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. 123 pages plus i-xxxviii. Illustrated with single lithograph of Thomas Larkin. Book is a selection of letters by Thomas Oliver Larkin regarding the "Americanization of California." Dust jacket- good, unclipped. Light shelf wear, tears, chips top and bottom spine. Spine sunned, light soiling. Decorated with harbor drawing, brown lettering. Boards- dark green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Minor bumps, rubs. Tan end papers. Binding- tight. Pages- pencil price front end paper, otherwise unmarked, clean. Ships in Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Second edition. xxxviii, [2], 147 p. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. Although respected, Thomas Oliver Larkin has not always received the credit he deserves as 'the man who, of all Americans concerned with California during that crisis, best did his duty" in the words of Josiah Royce. Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and chips.

Hardcover. 1st. Octavo. (xxxviii) 123pp. Bibliographical footnotes; Appendix; Index. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in decorative dust jacket. SIGNED by the editor. From the estate of Jo Mora, Jr. (provenance provided). Thomas Larkin was the United States' first (and last consul) to California at Monterey from 1844 to 1848, a critical period in California history. These letters between Larkin and his vice-consul in San Francisco, William A. Leidesdorff and Abel Stearns, prominent American trader in Los Angeles, range from 1831 to 1856 with a particular focus on the years of his consulship. (Rocq 5730). Three short closed tears; slight darkening to dust jacket edges otherwise book is in fine condition.