Wallace william swilling (18 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good+. Softcover journal in very good plus condition. Article topics include: dedication to Grenville Goodwin; the Dyrenforth rainmaking experiments: a government venture in 'pluviculture'; sources of the name 'California'; manifest opportunity in the Gadsden Purchase; Lieutenants Pershing and Stotsenberg visit the Grand Canyon 1887; and more. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Journal. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. The Land Between: Dr. James Schiel's Account of the Gunnison-Beckwith Expedition into the American West, 1853-1854 - Frederick W. Bachmann and William Swilling Wallace (Editors) hardcover in dustjacket, limited print run of 500 copies, 1st edition, illustrated. Published by Westernlore Press, 1957. The 1854 Gunnison- Beckwith Expedition by Lieutenant Edward Griffin Beckwith surveyed an area from the Mississippi to California, much of which was subsequently used for the Western Pacific's 1910 Feather River Route (connecting Oakland, California and Salt Lake City, Utah). "some jacket wear and tear, insides very good, minor marks and spots". …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Near-fine condition hardcover copy, first edition, 1956. No dustjacket, as issued.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. No Dustjacket. Presumed First. Presumed first edition w/NAP, hardcover, has tiny skew to binding, very faint hint of bowing to boards, very slight bumps to spine ends and board corners, and a touch of faint sunning to spine, otherwise a solid VG+ copy.

Stapled Booklet. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. Very good condition booklet, a reprint from a New Mexico publication. A title page has been added as a cover; included are pages 131 - 162. The author was then the librarian and archivist at New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used: Very Good. Used: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. A VERY GOOD Hardcover with a VERY GOOD Dustjacket. A clean and solid copy that just shows some light shelfwear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Limited Edition. Very good copy in hardcover with good jacket. Light shelf-wear and dust-staining to top edge of page block. Jacket has rubbing, edge-wear and chipping at spine ends and fore-edge corners. Price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Great West and Indian Series VI; First Edition, one of 350 copies; 12mo, red cloth, no dj; vg (spine ends and corners bumped and worn; spine and top of rear board sunned); 71pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Ltd. Edition. 71+pp.; HB burgundy w/gilt-pic.emboss; slight rub w/bookplate; clean,tight pgs. "In the following narrative the reader can follow the activities of some of these early attorneys and justices in the progress of covering a portion of the first judicial district." illus. from the library of & inscribed to Calvin Horn. "350 Copies of which 300 only are for sale" signed by Wallace. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. Limited Edition. 162 pages. Index. Map on endpapers. Illustrated with photos. One of a limited Westernlore Edition of 500 copies. Very good in dust jacket. (012).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Ltd. Edition. 59pp.; HB maroon w/gilt; some rub w/spine sunned; bookplate (Calvin Horn); clean,tight pgs. Bio.of 'mountain man' Antoine Robidoux. illus. from the library of & inscribed to Calvin Horn. "450 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena 1953" signed by Wallace. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited. Early California Travels Series XIV. One of 450 copies. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena. 59 pages. Rust red colored cloth boards. Volume number of the series in Roman Numeral in ink at the lower spine area of the boards. Very slight fading on the spine. The hinges are good. The inside pages are bright and look unmarked. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., x + 59 pp., color frontis., illus, map endpapers, dj, nice.

First Separate Printing. Printed Wrappers. Pages 131-162. Several full-page Illustrations. Reprinted from an unknown publication. A scholarly comparison of the text of portions of Gwinn Harris Heap's journal from his 1853 expedition from Missouri to California, and that which appeared in installments in the German publication Das Buch der Welt. as Ein Ritt nach Californien, with the author identified only as TH. GR. A fine copy. Author business card laid-in.…

Limited Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to one of 450 copies printed at the Castle Press, Pasadena. Color frontispiece, 59 pages, XIV of the Early California Travel Series. An important part of the Western fur trade. Antoine had begun a regular exploitation of the fur-bearing valleys north and west of Santa Fe and Taos. Robidoux is credited with being "one of the first penetrators" of the Intermontane Corridor. The maps on the endpapers show the location of Fort Hall, the Flatheal house, Fort Bridger and Bent's fort. A very good copy bound in brown cloth, spine lettering gilt, light fading to spine.…

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1954 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 16 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 90. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1953 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 90.…

dj. First Edition. Small octavo. (x) 59 pages. Gilt stamp rust cloth in cream dust jacket. Limited to 450 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena. Fine in fine plain publisher's dust jacket. Robidoux was part of the first group of Indo-European explorers of the western half of North America. He was an American of French extraction who went to Santa Fe and Taos and was involved in trading furs and horses. Later joined the American "Army of the West" under Stephen Watts Kearney in the U.S. war with Mexico as an interpreter. His brother was an important early landowner of Riverside; Mount Robidoux is named for him.…