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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A reprint of the edition of 1851 with biographies of the ancestors of John Hale 1637-1800, and his descendants 1826-1952. Privately printed. Covers shelfworn.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One of 150 copies privately printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. 1954 reprint of an exceedingly rare book originally published in 1851. Marbled paper boards quarter bound with tan cloth. Beige label with orange lettering on spine. Boards are slightly bowed; edges rubbed with boards exposed at bottom corners. Tight binding and clean interior. Includes frontispiece, five plates with half-tone portraits, and a folding map. John Hale moved to the Sacramento Valley from New York in 1849 and worked as a mining equipment manufacturer. However, he soon became disenchanted with California and issued a warning to would-be immigrants. Howes H31; Kurutz 301b; Mintz 198; Wagner-Camp-Becker 198a. ; Book; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller: Back of Beyond Books, Moab, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Original mustard cloth and marbled boards, quarto, xxviii, (49) pp., frontispiece coat-of-arms, 5 plates from photographs, folding map. Main text was self-published in Rochester in 1851. Subtitle to the original edition reads: "Being a Description of a Tour by the Overland Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains Across the Continent of North America: Giving an Account of the Great Desert Basin, Boiling Springs, and many other Natural Curiosities, Emigrant Sufferings, Fraudulent Speculations, Descriptions of Soil, Gold Region, Mining, etc. Also, the Society of California, Indian traits, and Journey Home across the Isthmus." This new edition adds family background and historical notes. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 553. Some wear to corners, spine label slightly darkened, else near fine
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 49 pages, frontis, illustrations, in original plain brown jacket, limited to 150 copies, as new-condition. Wagner-Camp 198a, Howes H31, Mintz 198, ¿Hale speaks disparagingly of the emigration to California. After reaching California by way of Lassen¿s cutoff, he stayed just a year before returning home. One of the rarest of the overland narratives.¿
Seller: Old West Books (ABAA), St. Robert, MO, U.S.A.
HALE, John. California As It Is. , 1954.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: (CALIFORNIA). HALE, John. California As It Is. A Reprint of the Edition of 1851, with Biographies of the Ancestors of John Hale 1637-1800 and His Descendants. Edited by Thomas B. Hunter, Jr. and Richard L. Wellington. [San Francisco: Grabhorn Press], 1954. 4to. xxviii, 49pp. Portraits. Folding map. Orig. cloth-backed marbled boards, plain dust wrapper. Near fine copy in a slightly chipped d/j. Howes H-31. Wagner-Camp 198a. Limited to 150 copies. First reprint of Hales account of his overland journey from Independence to California in 1849 and his experiences in the gold fields.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Hale, John. California As It Is. Privately Printed, 1954., 1954.
Price: US$96.50 + shipping
Description: 1954. Privately Printed, 1954. 4to, 49 pp, near fine in unprinted dj. One of 150 copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press.
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Quarto. (xxviii) pp of Preface followed by 42 pp of text. One of 150 copies of this limited reprint edition. Library number inked to lower spine, bookplate to front pastedown else a very good clean copy in patterned boards with cloth spine. Bump to lower front board. No pockets or other library stamps.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.