Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 386 pp. Hardcover, original boards rebacked with paper spine label. Marginal chips and repairs to several leaves, leaf 211-212 with several repaired tears.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Decorated brown cloth. Repaired front cover spine seam split to cloth. Minor wear to top and bottom of spine. Rubbing to corners, minor foxing to first few pages front and rear. 386 pp plus 10 pp ads at rear of book. Very small/minor stain to top middle portion of last 20 pages not affecting text. Otherwise book is clean, complete, and tight. A first hand account of the authors travels. Chapters on Kansas, On the plains, Buffalo, American Desert, Kansas Gold Diggings, "Lo, The Poor Indian", Western Characters, Bridger to Salt Lake, Two Hours With Brigham Young, Mormonism, Army in Salt Lake, Carson Valley to Sierra Nevada, California, Mining, Yosemite, The Big Trees, Railroad To The Pacific, etc. I started to read this book and couldn't put it down."But the gray-wolf-who is a denizen of the prairies-(I think we have seen at least a dozen of the species to-day)-is a scoundrel of much more imposing caliber. He delights to lurk around the outskirts of a herd of buffalo". All else complete, clean, and tight.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Clean, straight 170 year old first edition book in original brown cloth covered boards. Interior shows slight tanning, is in excellent condition. Ends of spine are worn, down to the textblock at top, 1/8" strip of cloth only, not the underlying cardboard, missing at tail of spine. Corners are rubbed and a 1" tear runs down top edge of spine. Bits of cloth are missing along front edge of spine appearing as a 2" slit. Book is in good plus condition. External flaws do not compromise the integrity of the book itself. 386 pages w/10 pages of advertising at the back.
Seller: Amanda Patchin, Boise, ID, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 386 pages; Publisher's pebbled brown cloth with decortive rules in blind to boards gilt title lettering dulled at spine. Front endpage and half-title missing, probably removed because of personal inscription. The first leaf is the title page. Cloth at spine chipped from crown to the height of the text block; fraying and rubbing at tail. Damp line along the top edge of the entire book and in the gutters of the first few leaves. Offset red stain to the front edge of the rear board. Binding slightly cocked. Contents complete, including the 10 page cataloge of Saxton titles at rear. A worn but serviceable 1st edition copy. Greeley composed the book as a series of letters published in the New York Tribune and issued as a book at the conclusion of his travels. Good ony
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 386 pages of text followed by [x] pages of publisher's advertisement. Re-backed with original spine laid-down; original binding is rubbed and shelfworn. New endpapers. About a dozen pages have minor staining that is in the text area, and another dozen pages have minor soiling in the page margins. First edition.
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Covers worn. Ex-libris, with markings inside front cover. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Photocard of Greeley placed inside.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Letters written by Greeley to the New York Tribune during his journey through Kansas, Colorado, Utah and California in the summer of 1859. Greeley states, ".much of the ground passed over by the writer was absolutely new - that is, it had never before been traversed and described". Octavo brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Complete with the ten pages of ads at the rear. Spine lettering dulled, else a sound, clean copy. Howes G355: Sabin 28940.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.