Search Results: Overland from Hardy Books

Washington DC: U. S. War Department, 1855. First Edition. Near Fine. This is an original MAP entitled "FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY TO THE PLAINS OF LOS ANGELES. From the "Explorations and Surveys for a Rail Road Route From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean / War Department". The explorations and surveys were made in 1854-5 under the direction of the then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (later, President, Confederate States of America). Lithographed map. Expertly Linen-backed for ease of handling and restoration. Image 30" x 36" with 1 3/4" linen border. Shows the central California coast extending to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Extracted from Volume XI of the quarto edition of the Pacific Railroad Reports. NOTE: This is an ORIGINAL map; not a copy or reproduction. Wagner-Camp 261. Wheat, Transmissippi 852. Near Fine with minor restorations. FREE SHIPPING to any United States address.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1923. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Very Good Plus/Custom Clear Mylar. 221 pp. Illustrated. List of Mining Companies. Bibliography. Cloth-backed boards. 10" x 7". Sans dust jacket. From the Preface: "This is the story of the companies of adventurers who left Massachusetts for California to acquire wealth and assist in building a new state in a distant and, to them, unknown country." A Very Good Plus copy (toning to covers), now in a custom clear mylar jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

Los Angeles: B. R. Baumgardt & Co, 1900. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Custom Clear Mylar. 313 pages. SIGNED by author in ink on the front free endpaper, "Compliments of the author / D A Shaw". Frontis portrait from photograph of author Shaw. Illustrated with frontis and 7 halftones (listed). Maroon cloth with gilt spine and cover titling.. . Shaw's Californina Gold Gush recollections, including his two overland journeys and life in the mines. Kurutz 569; Cowan II p. 580; Mattes 956; Mintz 419; Wheat 183; Howell 833; Rocq 16049. A Very Good copy (Sunned spine, edgewear, small blemishes to front cover) and now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via medial mail, to any United States address.

Salt Lake City: The Caramon Press, 1990. First Edition. Cloth. As New/Custom Clear Mylar. (xiii) 74 (2) pp. #103 of a limited edition of 274 copies. Foreword by Robert Greenwood of the Talisman Press. Title Index.Tan textured cloth; gilt spine titling. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Sans dust jacket. A well-written and useful descriptive bibliography of the published writings of historian, biographer, critic, researcher and editor Dale L. Morgan (1914-1971). Held in the highest esteem by all who knew him or his work, Morgan labored with post-lingual deafness. He specialized in Western Americana, especially Utah, Mormon, Overland and Fur Trade material. His papers were left to The Bancroft Library at The University of California. An As New copy, now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States adddress.

Haverford, PA: Headframe Publishing Company, 1978. First Thus. Leather-backed Marbled Boards. Near Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 81 pages. Illustrated. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is #68. Folding vintage map of California and the Routes to it. Leather-backed marbled paper covered boards. Prologue and Epilogue by Franz R. Dykstra. Designed and printed by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. Bound by E. G. Parrot.Limited reprint of the 1848 first edition. A beautiful binding of an important early guide book. Cowan, pg. 589-90; Graf 3789. Pages 39-46 loose, else Fine and now in a custom clear 4-mil protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.

New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. (15) 331 (1) pp. Illustrated dust jacket, with $6.95 price. Illustrated, including maps of The Moromon Trail. Index. Purple cloth.6 1/4" x 9 1/4". One of The American Trail Series, edited by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Per the jacket blurb: "Close to the heart of Mormondom is the almost stylized memory of the Trail. For every early Saint, crossing the plains to Zion was not merely a journey, but a rite, the final devoted and enduring act that brought one into the Kingdom." A Fine copy in a Very Good Plus or better dust jacket (pencil numbering to rear cover, spine toning; edgewear, especially to spine-ends). ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

San Francisco: William P. Wreden, 1968. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine/Fine. 55 pp. Illustrated with highly stylized line drawings by Patricia Oberhaus. Typographic design by Jack Werner Stauffacher, at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Set in Monotype Baskerville and Walbaum types; binding by the Schuberth Bookbindery. Limited to 540 unnumbered copies. Pictorial brown paper over boards. Paper spine label. Small Quarto.The imaginative Introduction by Richard Brautigan and the illustrations make this very much a product of San Francisco in the Sixties. A most unusual overland publication. A Fine Copy in a Fine plain paper jacket with custom spine titling. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1951. First Edition. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. Near Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. (xv) 107 pp. Illustrated. One of 250 un-numbered limited copies. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. 6 1/2" x 10". A collection of 49er R. R. Taylor's well-written letters to his wife concerning his journey from Massachusetts in 1849 to San Francisco and the California gold fields. Largely unsuccessful in mining, he clerked at a Mormon Island tent store for awhile before returning to San Francisco. Taylor's descriptions of life in San Francisco are well worth reading. A Near Fine copy (small bump to top of covers), now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

Oakland: Biobooks, 1955. First Thus. Cloth. Near Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. (x) 44 (4) pp. Edition limited to 500 un-nimbered copies. "First California Edition", printed by Times-Star Press, Alameda, California. California Relations Series, 39. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. After the rare 1851 edition in the Huntington Library. Brown cloth; gilt front cover titling. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Author Keller was physician to the Wayne County (Ohio) Company. The Company left St. Louis on April 10, 1850, and entered California, via Lassen's Cutoff. Wagner-Camp 199. Cowan pg. 323. Kurutz 367b. A Near Fine copy (A bit rubbed; minor edgewear), now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.