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Price: US$56.57 + shipping
Description: 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xv, 372pp + plates & ads. 8 b/w woodburytype tipped in plates. Explorations on American frontier in nineteenth century. Worn condition. Inner hinge cracking. Binding loose, but content in overall good condition Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boards are worn and marked.Foxing.Tightly bound.Complete eight illustrations.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$250.14 + shipping
Description: An exceptionally bright copy of the second edition of this illustrated account of life on the American frontiers in the nineteenth century. The second edition of this work. While the title page gives the 1878 date of the first edition, the thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear is dated July, 1882.J. S. Campion described the 'personal adventures' and 'strange scenes' he encountered during time spent on the frontiers of Kansas and Colorado, and among the Mohave and Apache Native Americans found in the region.With discussion of trips to Mexico, Arizona, the Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Verdes.Illustrated with eight mounted Woodburytypes. Collated, complete.Retaining the original half title.With illustrated bookplates to the front and rear pastedowns, and with the bookplate of Swedish civil servant Thorsten Wijnbladh to the front free endpaper.A wonderful account of life on the frontier. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with rubbing to rear board. Otherwise, externally excellent. Bookplates to front and rear pastedowns, and front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 372pp plus publisher's catalogue dated November, 1877. Gray cloth, gilt spine title, boards printed in black. Endpapers partially pasted down, first two pages partially detached, and others reinforced with what appears to be archival tape. A purple War Srvices stamp on the title page, and a longer one on the front free endpaper. Light wear to the spine tips, edges and corners. Still gives a good appearance. Illustrated with eight full page Woodburytype plates. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. xiv, [2], 372, 32 [publisher's catalogue dated November, 1877] pp. plus eight full page illustrations. Publisher's plum cloth with frames in black on covers and gilt spine lettering, pale yellow endpapers. Hinges reinforced with light yellow paper. A very good and very clean copy.The author, a British officer looking for adventures, made his book particularly valuable by dealing in depth with the Mojave and other arid portions of the West.Howes C-105. Graff 566.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: xvi,372pp. Frontis. Original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Head of front joint split, wear to binding extremities. Internally quite clean. Overall, very good. The author's adventures on the frontier, including trips to Mexico, Arizona, the Rockies, the Sierra Verdes, to name a few. Descriptions of the land, encounters with Indians and wild animals, many hunting expeditions. Nicely illustrated by the author's "comrade and companion staunch and true." There are eight woodburytypes. Invented in 1865, a woodburytype is a photomechanical method of reproducing carbon prints by producing a lead mold from a gelatin relief. Regarded as the photomechanical process most akin to photography. HOWES C105.
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 372 pages, frontis, illustrations, marbled page edges, new cloth, very nice copy in slipcase! Graff 566, Howes C105, Rader 583, "Hunting experiences and frontier life in Kansas and Colorado among the Mohave and Apache Indians in the Colorado River Valley."
Seller: Old West Books (ABAA), St. Robert, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$744.00 + shipping
Description: An attractively bound example of the first edition of this illustrated account of life on the American frontiers in the nineteenth century. The first edition of this work by J. S. Campion, in which he described the 'personal adventures' and 'strange scenes' he has encountered during time spent on the frontiers of Kansas and Colorado, and among the Mohave and Apache Native Americans found in the region.With discussion of trips to Mexico, Arizona, the Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Verdes.Illustrated with eight mounted Woodburytypes. Collated, complete.With a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated November, 1877.Retaining the original half title, with endpapers renewed.A wonderful account of life on the frontier. Rebound in quarter morocco, with cloth covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with the odd instance of spotting. Small tide mark to fore edge of first nine leaves. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom