Search Results: Titles starting with E from Hardy Books

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. 279 pages. SIGNED in ink by the Author on the title page. Illustrated dustjacket. Green boards. Octavo. By the author of Snow Falling On Cedars. A Doctor's journey in the Columbia Basin of central Washington State. From the jacket, "Full of humanity, passion, and moral honesty, East of the Mountains is a bold and beautiful novel of personal discovery." A FINE copy in a FINE dust jacket, now in a clear mylar protective jacket. Always FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.

Chico, California: Chico Advertiser, 1914. First Edition thus. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good/4-mil clear mylar envelope. 91 pages. Green printed stapled wrappers. Illustrated, including a small portrait of the author on the title page and three half-tone photographs. 5" x 7". First published in The Century Magazine, General Bidwell's memoir includes his participation in the first wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada into California. The General settled in Chico, California, a wealthy man. Cowan, page 52. Kurutz 55a. A cheaply made book and fragile; pages on browned newsprint; rubbed from handling; stain on rear cover; still, Very Good Plus overall, in a 4 mil clear mylar protective envelope. Always FREE SHIPPING of books 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: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1959. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine Slipcase. (viii) 320 pp. SIGNED by author Charles H. Baker, Jr, in ink on the front free endpaper. Index of restaurants; Index of recipes. By the author of The Gentleman's Companion and The South American Gentleman's Companion. Maroon cloth. Publisher's slipcase. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". International recipes and restaurant reviews, as well as "Certain Valuable Words to the Wise Concerning the Which, Where and How of Wines and a Lovingly Compiled Nonpariel Index of Herbs and Their Uses" (from the title page). All written in the inimitable Baker style. A Fine copy in a custom clear mylar sleeve in a Near Fine slipcase (edgewear to top opening.) ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail. to any United States address.

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990. First Edition. (xxvii) 335 pages. First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Maps. Cloth-backed boards. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Selected bibliography. Indes of Places, Events, Things. Index of Persons. A well-researched and described guide to the important places in expatriate Paris. From the jacket: "Structured in thirty-three geographical and very walkable sections, the book is indexed by streets, names, and topics, so that even the most demanding reader--or traveler--can follow his or her favorite character from haunt to haunt, or retrace the footsteps of a whole host of people in one section or arrondissement of Paris." A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. Always FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.

New York: Scribner, 2006. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/Fine. (13) 302 (1) pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author in ink on the title page: "Robert S. Wilson / For Matt, longtime friend, and biographer of my father. Bob / March 1, 2006". Illustrated, from period photographs and 2 maps. Illustrated unclipped dust jacket. Bibliography, Notes and Index. Cloth-backed boards. 6" xz 9 1/4". From the flap: "In this, one of the year's most compelling biographies, Robert Wilson paints a brilliant portrait of Clarence King--a scientist-explorer ;whose mountain-scaling, desert-crossing, river-fording, blizzard-surviving adventures helped create the new West of the nineteenth ceentury....The Yale-educated King went west in 1863 at age twenty-one as geologist-explorer. During the next decade he scaled the highest pjeaks of the Sierra Nevada, published a popular bo ok now considered a classic of advernture literatiure, initiated a ground-breaking land survyu of the American West, and ultimately uncovered one… Read More