Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo; 106 pages; Old bookplate came loose and is laid in. Shows glue staining on inside front cover and offsetting on front free endpaper. 1 of 500 copies.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 100 pp., illustrations, deckled edges. Introduction by Charles Camp. A fine, unmarked copy with minor offsetting from the laid in subscribers informational. Limited to 500 copies and one of the Fifty Books of the Year. Dawson was in the Bidwell party of 41 and eventually settled in Texas where he died in 1903. The first edition of this book was printed in the early 1900's and was limited to about 50 copies and is practically unobtainable.
Seller: K & B Books, Tucson, AZ, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Original decorated paper-covered boards over cloth spine. Color illustrations by Arvilla Parker, introduction by Charles L. Camp. "Number seven of the rare Americana series." printed by the Grabhorn Press. Slight offsetting for ffe. from jacket flap, small stains to rear cover, in plain publisher's dust jacket.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 500 copies, quarto size, 107 pp. Nicholas Dawson (1819-1903), the partly self-educated schoolteacher infected with wanderlust, spent much of his life travelling on foot across America. His wanderings brought him through Missouri, Louisiana, and Arkansas to Mexico, then back to New Orleans; he returned to the West infected with Gold Fever, and then eventually settled in Texas. The original publication of his memoirs is incredibly scarce; this edition was published by the Grabhorn Press, one of the most highly renowned private presses in America during the twentieth century, run by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter natural linen with brown paper boards, coloured vignette illustration on the front board, black lettering running vertically on the front and back boards, brown paper spine label with black lettering, title page and caption titles printed in red and black, nine coloured illustrations by Arvilla Parker; hand-set in Goudy Modern on Van Gelder rough-cut paper; quarto size (10" by 6.75"), pagination: [i-iv] 1-100 [101-107], one of 500 copies, unnumbered. One of the Fifty Books of the Year, 1933, First Series of Rare Americana, No. 7. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine, with clean boards, straight corners, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a hint of rubbing to the top front corner, very light foxing to the top of the text block, some light marks on the spine, and age-toning to the free endpapers, else fine. ___CITATION: Grabhorn Press bibliography, no. 184. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 100pp. Octavo [25 cm] 1/4 tan cloth over brown printed boards. Better than very good. Name in ink on the front free endsheet. Number 7 of the Rare Americana Series. Includes an introduction by Charles L. Camp and nine color illustrations by Arvilla Parker. In 1841, Cheyenne Dawson of Austin, Texas was a part of the famed Bidwell-Bartleson Party, along with his brother-in-law and some "neighbor boys." The trip was organized in Sherman, Texas in 1849, and aimed a Southern Route. After crossing the Colorado Desert and visiting Los Angeles, the prospectors reached the Mariposa diggings in November. Dawson worked the dry diggings and eventually got into freighting and tells how his fellow pioneer Charles Weber of Stockton tried to coax him to ranching. In the spring of 1851, he began his return trip to Texas. Kurutz 171b.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Grabhorn Press edition. Slight shelf wear to the binding. No dust jacket.
Seller: Orrin Schwab Books, Providence, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Light colored cloth with brown decorative paper over the board, paper label. Previous owner's signature on free endpaper. 100 pp., deckled edges. Introduction by Charles L. Camp and colored drawings by Arvilla Parker
Seller: Sabino Books, Oro Valley, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Second edition, first edition thus (Howell, Jennie Crocker Collection, #1320). Quarter cloth, printed paper label, and pictorial paper boards, plain dust jacket. With an introduction by Charles L. Camp and colored drawings by Arvilla Parker. One of 500 copies. Prospectus laid in. A Fine copy.
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: No. 7 of the Rare Americana Series produced by the Granhorn Press. Second edition, first published c.1901 (only 50 copies printed at that time). Although not indicated, one of 500 copies. With an Introduction by Charles L. Camp and Colored Drawings by Arvilla Parker. [12], 100, [8]pp. Illustrations. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. Some offsetting (as usual) to free endpapers. A fine copy. Dawson was a member of the first overland party to cross the plains to California in 1841 with the Bidwell-Bartleson Party; he also made the journey during the Gold Rush of 1849. His Narrative was written a half-century after the adventures that he described, but is "surprisingly accurate as to main events and errs only slightly in matters of detail" (Camp). "Only two or three copies are known of the original fifty printed for family and friends" (Mintz). [Cowan: p.661; Grabhorn: 184; Howes II: D-161; Kurutz 171b; Mintz: 118; Streeter: 3042].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st of this Ed., 100 pp., illus., pict. cloth/boards, nice. rpt. Howes C-159 Rader #1084 Graff #1027 Mintz #118 Herd #661 in Cowan Mattes 354 A Grabhorn Press item, ltd. to 500 copies, an important overland, was with the Bidwell- Bartheson Party, Much of interest, Indians, cattle, etc.
Seller: T A Swinford, Bookseller, sun city west, AZ, U.S.A.
DAWSON, Nicholas. Narrative of Nicholas "Cheyenne" Dawson. , 1933.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: DAWSON, Nicholas. Narrative of Nicholas "Cheyenne" Dawson (Overland to California in '41 & '49, and Texas in '51). With an Introduction by Charles L. Camp. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press,1933. One of 500 copies. 8vo. [12], 100, [7], [1] pp. Orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, printed paper spine label with plain printer's wrapper. Fine. HOWES D-159, "aa." Striking colored illustrations by Arvilla Parker at the head of each chapter. Prospectus laid in. From the Grabhorn Press Rare Americana Series, No.7.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1933. [10], 100, [8] pp. Text illustrations. First edition thus (and second edition overall). One of 500 copies. Grabhorn Rare Americana, First Series, No. 7. Names one of the 50 books of the year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Dawson was a member of the first overland party to cross the plains in 1841, and he repeated the journey during the Gold Rush of 1849. His narrative was first published in 1901, more than a half-century after the adventures he describes, but, according to Charles L. Camp's introduction, is "surprisingly accurate as to mair events and errs only slightly in matters of detail." [Grabhorn 184; Howell 50:1320]. Orginal brown pictorial boards, with tan cloth backstrip and printed paper spine label, with a plain brown paper jacket. Offset to free endpapers, else fine. (036)
Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: One of 500 copies. Colored Drawings by Arvilla Parker. [xii], 100, [vii] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Dawson was a member of the Bidwell-Bartleson party. This is number 7 in the Rare Americana Series done by Grabhorn Press. Grabhorn Bib. #184; Adams Herd 661; Cowan p. 161; Graff 1027; Howes D-159; Kurutz 171b; Mattes 54 ; Mintz 118; Rader 1084 Bound in original cloth-backed pictorial tan boards with spine label, very fine Colored Drawings by Arvilla Parker. [xii], 100, [vii] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Rare Americana, number Seven. Illustrated in black, white and color by Arvilla Parker. Important reference work. Signed "Edwin Grabhorn". Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.