Chester Ingersoll, Douglas C. McMurtrie [ed.]. Overland to California in 1847. Letters Written en Route to California, West from Independence, Missouri, to the Editor of the Joliet Signal.. Black Cat Press, Chicago, 1937.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited to 350 copies. Some very slight soiling to the covers otherwise A fine, bright, clean and unmarked hardcover. Bluestem Books is an independent brick-and-mortar bookstore established in 1984.

Seller: Bluestem Books, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.

Ingersoll, Chester. Overland to California in 1847 Letters Written to California West from Independence Missouri to the Editor of the Joliet Signal. Black Cat Press, Chicago, 1937.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book has owner bookplate, foxed endpapers, cover soiling. Limited edition, one of 350 copies.

Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.

Ingersoll, Chester. Overland to California in 1847: Letters Written en route to California, west from Independence, Missouri, to the Editor of the Joliet Signal. Black Cat Press, Chicago, IL, 1937.

Price: US$40.55 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Chicago: Black Cat Press. 1937 . Edited by Douglas C. McMurtrie. Limited Edition, 350 copies. Designed by Alfred Sterges & Norman W. Forgue. An edited collection of letters written by Ingersoll during his journey to California. 8vo. (5.75 x 8.5 in.). Beige, oatmeal-textured cloth over boards. Brown cow skull graphic on cover, brown titling on spine. Light wear, 2 small marks on cover. Beige pages show light toning on the edges. Nicely produced with graphical numbering of each chapter/letter.

Seller: Brodsky Bookshop, Taos, NM, U.S.A.

Ingersoll, Chester.. Overland to California in 1847. Letters Written en Route to California, West from Independence, Missouri, to the Editor of the Joliet Signal.. Black Cat Press., Chicago., 1937.

Price: US$44.00 + shipping

Description: Limited edition of 350 copies. Important reference work. Illustrated. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (small owner name). 50 pps.

Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

Ingersoll, Chester. Overland to California in 1847 Letters written en route to Californai, west from Independence, Missouri, to the Editor of the Joliet Signal. Black Cat Press, Chicago, IL, 1937.

Price: US$55.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 50pp. Decorated boards. First edition. Howes I39: "First separate printing of these letters as published in a Joliet newspaper, 1847-48." One of 350 copies published. Wagner-Camp-Becker 151; "This may be the sole contemporary printed account of an 1847 overland trip to California." Not in Cowan. See also: Heckman 183. Paher, Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography, 943. Mintz: The Trail, 253.

Seller: Cat House Books LLC, Pensacola, FL, U.S.A.

INGERSOLL, Chester.. Overland to California in 1847: Letters Written en route to California, west from Independence, Missouri, to the Editor of the Joliet Signal.. Chicago, Black Cat Press, 1937., 1937.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. Illustrations by Alfred Sterges. Edited with a 4 page introduction by Douglas C. McMurtrie. Original tan cloth stamped in dark brown with a vignette of a long horn's skeleton on the front cover. Very good. 50 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. One of 350 copies, November 1937.

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.