mckinstry byron n (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. plates, map (illustratore). First edition. 8vo, 401pp., red cloth; cream dj with three nicks at head of spine American Trails Series X. Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. "Diary exceptional on its own account for the thoroughness of overland coverage, penetrating observations of human character and trail geography, and a felicitous literary style. It becomes a classic through interpolations of grandson Bruce, who spent twenty-four seasons retracing every foot of Byron's route - Mattes, 894." Illustrated with 38 images, mostly photographic supplied by the grandson, and a map. This well-done book is engrossing - Mintz, THE TRAIL, 321]. [Not in Wagner-Camp, or Cowan].

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. photogravures (illustratore). First edition. Small 4to, 401pp., red cloth; clear tape repair to top panel of dj. Inscribed "To my very good friend and / fellow Westerner ." and signed by Bruce L.McKinstry. Laid in is a printed memorial of McKinstry's burial, in 1978. Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. Issued as no. 10 in the American Trails Series. "Diary exceptional on its own account for the thoroughness of overland coverage, penetrating observations of human character and trail geography, and a felicitous literary style. It becomes a classic through interpolations of grandson Bruce, who spent twenty-four seasons retracing every foot of Byron's route - Mattes, 894." [ Townley, THE TRAIL WEST, p.99; "This well-done book is engrossing - Mintz, THE TRAIL, 321].

McKINSTRY, Byron N. The California Gold Rush Overland Diary of Byron N. McKinstry, 1850-1852, with a Biographical Sketch and Comment on a Modern Tracing of His Overland Travel by His Grandson Bruce L. McKinstry. Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1975. 1st ed. 401pp. Portrait frontis., illus., portraits. Clark & Brunet 180.