Maurice l howe (7 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good - Cash. First Edition. Oversize: 8 1/2' x 11' - White cover page with black lettering, typescript. Soiled and yellowing around edges. Stapled binding. Text unmarked. Back page detached from body of text but included. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Missing. Limited Edition. Number 25 of 350 copies. Ex library copy with a Mound Fort Junior Library stamp on the FFEP, pgs. 33, 63, 91, 134, and the rear pastedown; small identifying mark on the spine. Light wear and handling on the boards, sunning along the spine. Text and images unmarked. 8vo. 152pp, index.…

First Edition. 152pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Very good/Very good. Spine of jacket sunfaded. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Inscribed by the author, Charles Kelly, on the front free endsheet. The printing of this book was limited to 350 numbered copies, this is copy 344. Goodyear went overland to the Rockies with the Whitman party in 1836 to seek independence and adventure. He became a trapper and trader, built the first home in Utah, and was a California pioneer of 1849. Howes K56 Charles Kelly (1889-1971) was a writer of Western history and a collector of Western lore and an historian of the American West whose work focuses on activities in the western salt desert of Utah and Nevada. He was also a printer, painter and superintendent of Capitol Reef National Monument. He was a partner for the Western Printing Company, where he remained until 1940. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition. LIMITED EDITION, #294 of 350 copies. 152 pages + bibliography and index, frontis, illustrations, minor wear to jacket. Goodyear went west in 1836 with the Whitmans. He built the first home in Utah, and was a California pioneer of 1849. Howes K56.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. First Edition. LIMITED EDITION, # 47 of 350 copies, SIGNED by Howe with 2 inscriptions, 152 pages + bibliography and index, frontis, illustrations, dust jacket has minor chipping to edges, and is sunned on the spine, Goodyear went west in 1836 with the Whitmans. He built the first home in Utah, and was a California pioneer of 1849. Howes K56aa, Rare item.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Limited First Edition. Limited first edition, numbered, double signed, and includes TLS. This book is numbered 342/350 on the copyright page. TLS is from Charles Kelly to customer Mr. W. T. Smith, to whom this book is also signed and inscribed. Also signed and inscribed to a previous owner, Mrs. [? ] Dick Shepard. TLS regards Smith's inquiry concerning where to locate this book, which was, even then, out of print (Smith was able to find a used copy) and also a list of books written by Mr. Hoffman Birney. Inscription to Mr. Smith reads: "To Mr. W. T. Smith -Possibly you have seen the old Goodyear cabin in Ogden- Mar 22, 1940." The other inscription reads "To Mrs. [? ] Dick Shepard - With Compliments, Charles Kelly." Inscriptions are found on front endpapers. Green dust jacket over green cloth boards with title gilt on front. DJ has mylar cover and is not price clipped. DJ is still bright but has moderate sunning to spine and light chipping at corners and top edge; boards have light soiling and wear to all edges; previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper; text block has light toning. TLS has light soiling, not affecting content. This is the story of Miles Morris Goodyear, who came West with the Whiteman party in 1836, and was a homesteader in what is now known as Ogden, Utah. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 152 pp; Signed by One Author.…

Full-page gift inscription by author, Maurice Howe, with his thoughts about pioneers on the following page. 8vo. 152, [7] pp. Bibliography; Index; 9 photo-illustrated plates. 4 page prospectus laid in. Green cloth with gilt lettering in green printed dustjacket. Fading to spine; ligth wear to extremities; else a near fine copy. Miles Morris Goodyear (1817-1849) was an American fur trader and mountain man who built and occupied Fort Buenaventura in what is now the city of Ogden, Utah. A cabin built there by Goodyear, as far as known, is the first permanent house built in Utah. Goodyear eventually moved to California and engaged in horse-trading and gold mining. He acquired land at Benicia and made a gold discovery on the Yuba River at "Goodyear's Bar." - wiki. (Howes K56). First Edition Limited to 350 copies, this being No. 272.…