Nicholas cheyenne dawson (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine label. Limited to 500 copies. Faint foxing to spine and top textblock edge, eps toned. Tight and square. Number 7 of the Rare Americana series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages. Illustrated by Arvilla Parker (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. 100 pp., illustrations, deckled edges. Introduction by Charles Camp. A fine, unmarked copy with minor offsetting from the laid in subscribers informational. Limited to 500 copies and one of the Fifty Books of the Year. Dawson was in the Bidwell party of 41 and eventually settled in Texas where he died in 1903. The first edition of this book was printed in the early 1900's and was limited to about 50 copies and is practically unobtainable. Arvilla Parker (illustratore).…

First Edition, 1/500. 100pp. Octavo [25 cm] 1/4 tan cloth over brown printed boards. Better than very good. Name in ink on the front free endsheet. Number 7 of the Rare Americana Series. Includes an introduction by Charles L. Camp and nine color illustrations by Arvilla Parker. In 1841, Cheyenne Dawson of Austin, Texas was a part of the famed Bidwell-Bartleson Party, along with his brother-in-law and some "neighbor boys." The trip was organized in Sherman, Texas in 1849, and aimed a Southern Route. After crossing the Colorado Desert and visiting Los Angeles, the prospectors reached the Mariposa diggings in November. Dawson worked the dry diggings and eventually got into freighting and tells how his fellow pioneer Charles Weber of Stockton tried to coax him to ranching. In the spring of 1851, he began his return trip to Texas. Kurutz 171b.…

Condizione: Near Fine. First Editino. First Edition. Original decorated paper-covered boards over cloth spine. Color illustrations by Arvilla Parker, introduction by Charles L. Camp. "Number seven of the rare Americana series." printed by the Grabhorn Press. Slight offsetting for ffe. from jacket flap, small stains to rear cover, in plain publisher's dust jacket. Illustrated, Arvilla Parker (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Hardcover. One of 500 copies. Number 7 of the Rare Americana Series of the Press. A handsome edition of this interesting account of Cheyenne Dawson's overland trips to California and Texas in the mid-19th century. The editor thanks the Dawson family for giving their permission to reprint this narrative. The editor also thanks Doctor Charles Camp for his valuable introduction and notes and Avilla Parker for her several colored drawings. Bound in original brown cloth backed pictorial boards with a cream cloth spine with title label. Some offsetting to free endpapers and closed tear to the rear flap of the plain paper wraps. Otherwise very good + condition. Measures 6.5 x 10 inches.[10], 100, [8] pages. Howes D-159 PRI/111124.…

Pictorial Boards. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Thus. 1933. [10], 100, [8] pp. Text illustrations. First edition thus (and second edition overall). One of 500 copies. Grabhorn Rare Americana, First Series, No. 7. Names one of the 50 books of the year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Dawson was a member of the first overland party to cross the plains in 1841, and he repeated the journey during the Gold Rush of 1849. His narrative was first published in 1901, more than a half-century after the adventures he describes, but, according to Charles L. Camp's introduction, is "surprisingly accurate as to mair events and errs only slightly in matters of detail." [Grabhorn 184; Howell 50:1320]. Orginal brown pictorial boards, with tan cloth backstrip and printed paper spine label, with a plain brown paper jacket. Offset to free endpapers, else fine. (036).…

Decorated hard cover. First edition. Rare Americana, number Seven. Illustrated in black, white and color by Arvilla Parker. Important reference work. Signed "Edwin Grabhorn". Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. First Printing. Limited edition (one of only 500 copies). Quarter bound in brown pictorial boards, over tan cloth backstrap, printed paper label on spine. Illustrated with colored drawings by Arvilla Parker. Introduction by Charles L. Camp. Edited by Douglas S. Watson. Laid-in are are two pieces of correspondence (July and August 1969) from the illustrator, Arvilla Seligman (nee Parker) concerning her trip to have the book signed by Bob Grabhorn, one copy of a newspaper article about the book's selection as one of the 50 best books of the year (1933), and one handwritten index card about Arvilla Parker's youth. Offset to free endpapers, one brief pencilled bibliographic note and old price on ffep, one corner lightly bumped, else fine; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. The Grabhorn Press Series of Rare Americana. 7. Color Drawings. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. Signed by Illustrator and Publisher. Illustrated by Arvilla Parker (illustratore). …