lavender david alvin josephy editor (6 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: VG. Paperback. VG. 468pp. Extremities lightly rubbed. Illus.; index.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good in Good DJ. 8 1/2 x 11, 416 pgs, index, b&w and color historical photos and illustrations. The epic story of the exploration and conquest of the West from 1763, when England won domination over territory stretching as far as the Mississippi, to the twilight of the frontier in the early twentieth century.

New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1965. 4to, 416 pp. Numerous full color and b/w illustrations throughout. Quarter blue cloth, teal paper boards, gilt lettering to backstrip and decoration to upper cover, color illustrated dust jacket. Dust-jacket moderately worn, pages age toned. § The story of the West as stirring American epic.

Hard Cover/Slipcase. Condizione: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Embossed maroon linen boards w/gilt lettering/Fine. DJ/None as Issued. Black slipcase w/pastedown illustration of Jedediah Smith on horseback by Harvey Dunn/NF w/small losses to pastedown edges. Illustrated endpapers. Text by noted historian of the Western United States, and twice recipient of the Pulitzer, David Sievert Lavender (1910 - 2003). 14 chapters augmented w/illustrations, maps & photos: !, Beyond the First Mountains 1763-1779; 2, Whose West? 1779-1795; 3, The Trans-Mississippi Mystery 1792-1807; 4, Barren Beginnings 1804-1813; 5, War & Depression 1810-1821; 6, Seven-League Boots 1821-1833; 7, The Southwestern Barriers 1825-1844; 8, The Great Surge 1832-1846; 9, New Empires 1846-1848; 10, The Miseries of Richness 1848-1854; 11, The Great Prize 1852-1861; 12, Clearing the Way 1854-1870; 13, High, Wide, & Ugly 1870-1890; and 14, New Values 1890-1914.

Hard Cover/Slipcase. Condizione: Collectible - Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: None as Issued. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed bi-color blue boards/Fine. DJ/NF. Illustrated endpapers. History of America West. Text by noted historian of the Western United States, and twice recipient of the Pulitzer, David Sievert Lavender (1910 - 2003). 14 chapters augmented w/illustrations, maps & photos: !, Beyond the First Mountains 1763-1779; 2, Whose West? 1779-1795; 3, The Trans-Mississippi Mystery 1792-1807; 4, Barren Beginnings 1804-1813; 5, War & Depression 1810-1821; 6, Seven-League Boots 1821-1833; 7, The Southwestern Barriers 1825-1844; 8, The Great Surge 1832-1846; 9, New Empires 1846-1848; 10, The Miseries of Richness 1848-1854; 11, The Great Prize 1852-1861; 12, Clearing the Way 1854-1870; 13, High, Wide, & Ugly 1870-1890; and 14, New Values 1890-1914. First Edition, First Thus.

Pictorial commentary Ralph K. Andrist. Pp. 416, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (several full page), index; demy 4to; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards slightly bruised, a couple of tiny puncture marks to lower board; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split; the upper free endpaper faintly marked; American Publishing Company, Inc./Bonanza Books, New York, 1982. *First published in 1965.