Howard r lamar editor (20 risultati)

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Fifth Printing. 294 Pages Indexed. Pages 105-124 bottom corner is crimped otherwwise beautiful tight square book with very attractive cover. In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Her travel journal was written at a crucial time, when the Mexican War was beginning and New Mexico was occupied by Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West. Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house and town to town, she became adept in Spanish and the lingo of traders, and wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of places she went. She gave birth to her first child during the journey and admitted, "This thing of marrying is not what it is cracked up to be." Valuable as a social and historical record of her encounters- she met Zachary Taylor and was agreeably disappointed to find him disheveled but kindly-her journal is equally important as a chronicle of her growing intelligence, experience, and strength, her lost illusions and her coming to terms with herself. Includes a map showing the route. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. tight, sturdy spine, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good -. Very Good -. Stated First Edition. A review copy with publisher's card laid in. Normal wear including slightly bowed boards. Book.

Hard cover. First edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 1344 p. Contains: Illustrations. The Lamar Western History. Audience: General/trade. Fine in fine dust jacket. excellent in an excellent jacket, first printing, NO PRIORITY SHIPPING WITHOUT PRIOR ARRANGEMENT, VERY HEAVY.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. First printing. Unclipped ($24.95) Mylar protected dust jacket. Clean and solid with a slight spine slant and the head of the spine is a bit concave (both conditions are common in books this thick). A slight nudge to the spine's foot. The DJ has a very faint amount of creasing to the spine's head. One flap corner has a small chip. Not a remainder.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+ to Near Fine. First Edition. (1977) 1,306 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on black cloth spine. Binding lightly soiled w/ light discoloration along bottom edges. Boards a bit bowed. Faint musty odor. DJ has modest edge wear. Illust. w/ b/w photos and drawings.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Text and images unmarked.

First printing. 4to 11 1/4" x 9" x 2 1/4" thick. Black cloth and orange boards stamped in gilt. xv, 1324 pages. 2,400 alphabetical listings. 300 contributors. 600 illustrations and maps. Text is clean and bright. "Withdrawn" stamp on flyleaf. Tightly bound. Small inconspicuous tape pull on front board. Small tape pull on rear pastedown. Appears hardly used. Dust jacket. near Fine/ near Fine.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING as such. "The encyclopedia, a thoroughly revised and expanded version of Howard Lamar's acclaimed twenty-year-old 'Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West,' consists of more than 2,400 entries in alphabetical order by more than 300 contributors, along with over 600 illustrations and maps (four times more than in the original editon). Among the topics covered are: the formative period of each state; the diplomacy of American expansion; important discoverers and mountain men; major Native American tribes, their leaders, and culture; pivotal women such as Sacagawea, Annie Oakley, and Willa Cather; African Americans, Asian Americans, and Mexican Americans on the western frontier; novelists, artists, and filmmakers and the real and fictional people they turned into mythic heroes or villains; politicians from Benjamin Franklin to Ronald Reagan; major cities and landmarks; and conservation and wildlife issues." 1,324 pages. AN AMERICAN WEST RESOURCE MUST! Some sway to spine, not uncommon in this title due to text length/weight/size. Bumping to top of DJ spine. Some shelf rubbing to DJ cover, elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy. *Note: Extra shipping may be required in accordance with 6.4 lb. weight of the book and destination. LBCMD1.…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 236 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Boards. Condizione: Very Good in Very Good DJ. First printing. 4to, 1324 pp., b/w illus. Light soiling to page edges, light edgewear to jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. EDITOR INSCRIBED (to the first owner) first printing (complete number line), hardcover in excellent, near-pristine condition (slight handling, slight corner bump, slight crease on front endpaper), with VG dust jacket (Slight handling, hint of gloss wear, protected by a clear, removeable cover). 1324 pages. Only slow bookrate/media USA shipment available. [6.7 lbs]. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a very large and authoritative book "surveying the entire range of America's frontier experience, from the colonial era to the space age." Condition: a fine copy in a price-clipped but otherwise fine dust jacket. B&W illustrations & maps. 1306 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 20 maps; 136 illustrations; Hardback: quarter black cloth lettered in gilt on light brown cloth boards; Near fine in vg dustjacket.

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. 1st. Bound in publisher's original black quarter cloth with spine and front cover stamped in gilt.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1324 pages in excellent condition. Many illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Black cloth over orange boards. Gilt titles. Corners not bumped. Illustrated DJ with black/red titles. Light wear on corners and edges. One inch, taped tear on bottom edge of upper jacket. Binding tight. FINE/VG Size: 9 x 11. Book.…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 236 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.