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Edwards Philip. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards. Grabhorn Press, 1932.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Endpapers darkened

Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.

Philip Leget Edwards. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards: The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1932.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Number 4, Rare Americana Series. Small quarto bound in cloth with paper-covered boards. Color frontispiece. Condition: part of leather spine label is gone; corners slightly bumped; else very good. Pages: [x], 47.

Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.

Edwards, Philip Leget. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards: the Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837.. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$44.99 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Original cloth-backed decorative boards, labels to front and spine. Gilt titles on labels a bit dulled, board extremites faintly sunned, endpages toned/foxed. Tight and square. ; quarto; 47 pages

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

EDWARDS, Philip Leget. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards: The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Reprint. Quarto. 47pp. Introduction by Douglas S. Watson. Illustrated frontispiece. Binding with light toning and wear, some offsetting on the endpapers,a very good or better copy.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Edwards, Philip Leget. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards: The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 26 x 19 cm. 47pp. Marble boards in plain brown paper dust jacket. 1/500 copies. Color frontispiece. Some discoloration to endpapers from where the jacket flaps lay. Number 4 in Rare Americana Series. Howes E66. Graff 1216.

Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Edwards, Philip Leget. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards: The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837.. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, California, 1932.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: "First Rare Americana Series, Number 4". 500 copies printed. [iv], 47 pages; frontispiece; bound in marbled boards with paper label on the cover. Fine press copy of Edwards account of a cattle drive to Oregon from California in 1837 under the guise of 'The Willamette Cattle Company'. Leaving with 729 head of cattle, upon reaching Oregon 630 head were still alive laying the foundation for the herds of cattle in the Pacific Northwest. Fine handsome copy.

Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

Philip Leget Edwards. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards: The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837. Grabhorn, 1932.

Price: US$57.50 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: This is number 4 in Rare Americana series printed the by the Grabhorn Press. A quality production on heavy, laid paper. Full color frontispiece. The binding of green cloth spine over patterned paper boards is clean and unworn, with undamaged title labels to spine and front face. Everything is square and tight with sharp, unbumped edges and corners. Some browning to the pastedowns and ffep, but otherwise the contents are clean and bright, with no ownership inscriptions or other markings of any kind. No jacket, probably as issued. A wonderful contemporary view of a cattle drive in 1837.

Seller: Nineveh & Tyre, Cedar Rapids, IA, U.S.A.

Edwards, Philip Leget; Watson, Douglas S. (Introduction). The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards; The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: One of 500 copies, quarto size, 53 pp., Number 4 in the Rare Americana Series. Philip Leget Edwards (1812-1869) was an educator, lawyer, and legislator, and was part of the Willamette Cattle Company. During his time there he wrote this diary documenting his travels from California to Oregon in 1837, at the time "a vast undertaking when the only trails were those made by occasional trappers like Michael La Framboise, and the herds consisted of more than half-wild cattle" (quote from introduction). This edition was published by the Grabhorn Press, one of the most highly renowned private presses in America in the twentieth century, run by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter green cloth with marbled paper boards, green paper labels with gilt lettering on front and spine, fore- and bottom edges uncut, frontispiece a coloured facsimile of a lithograph of San Francisco in 1837 by John F. Vioget, title page in orange and black, one headpiece in sepia by Arvilla Parker, title and caption title printed in black and sepia; set in monotype Baskerville on Van Gelder paper, quarto size (10" by 7.5"), pagination: [i-vi] [1] 2-47, one of 500 copies, unnumbered. ___CONDITION: Just a shade below fine, the marbled paper clean and with only a slight stray mark, straight corners with minimal rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; head and tail of the spine barely beginning to rub and toning to the free endpapers (from the glue used for the pastedown endpapers); overall an about fine example. ___CITATION: Grabhorn Press Bibliography, no. 172. ___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.

Philip Leget Edwards. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards: The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837. The Grabhorn Press; San Francisco, CA, 1932.

Price: US$64.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: This 7.5 x 10.125 inch, 47 page hardcover book is the beautiful 1932 edition of this title by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco. This copy is in at least near fine with only a slight yawing of the front board as a condition issue to mention. There is very little edge or corner wear and the marbled-paper boards and the paper labels on front and spine all present and in fine condition. The interior shows offset browning to the front and rear end papers but beyond that the text is in fine condition with no markings or damage to note. This book has the subscriber's prospectus for the rare 'Americana Series' laid in. The text contents gives an account of this pre-gold rush effort to drive California cattle to Oregon in 1837. The book is highlighted by a very good four-page introduction by California scholar Douglas S. Watson, who gives a good account of Philip Edwards, his life in California, and the cattle drive itself. 47 pages.

Seller: JDBFamily, Chico, CA, U.S.A.

EDWARDS, PHILIP LEGET.. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards. The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837.. Grabhorn Press, 1932.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Boards and green cloth back, a near fine copy. First edition thus. Limited to 500 copies and printed on Van Gelder paper. Heller & Magee 172. Six Score 36: "Narrative of the first recorded cattle drive in California. Edwards' diary was originally published serially in Themis magazine in the 1860s. Aside from its cattle interest, which recounts bringing some 630 head of cattle from California to Oregon, the book is also a California and fur trade item." Herd 747: "Scarce. written in the form of a diary and contains details of the earliest cattle drive." Howes E66. Cowan p. 192. Graff 1216. Wagner-Camp 48 (note). Merrill's Aristocrats.

Seller: Darwin Labordo, Books, Sierra Madre, CA, U.S.A.

Edwards, Philip Leget. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards. The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837.. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: One of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. 48pp. Colored facsimile from an 1837 lithograph of San Francisco. Cloth-backed marbled boards, paper labels on spine and front cover. Fore-edges of endpapers with offsetting. A fine copy. Treasurer of the Willamette Cattle Company, Edwards arrived in San Francisco on February 29, 1837. He had originally come to Oregon in 1833 with Captain Wyeth's party. This day-by-day narrative ends on September 18, somewhere near Mt. Shasta, as the company attempts to reach the Willamette Valley with 729 head of cattle. His account of the six months spent in the San Francisco Bay Area is among the most important early descriptions. Also considered one of the first western cattle accounts. [Grabhorn: 172].

Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

No Author Noted. The Diary Of Philip Leget Edwards, The Great Cattle Drive From California To Oregon In 1837. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, CA, 1932.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Text is clean. Front free endpaper lightly discolored. Edge of rear free endpaper wrinkles (discolration shows that it has been this way for quite sometime. ) Cover shows only light wear. Dust jacket shows edgewear along top edge, small wrinkle to lower corner of back cover. ; Rare Americana Series; Vol. 4; 47 pages

Seller: Dan Glaeser Books, Modesto, CA, U.S.A.

Edwards, Philip Leget. THE DIARY OF PHILIP LEGET EDWARDS: The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: Original green cloth and marbled boards, octavo (7.5 x 10 inches), pp (i-iv), 47. Colored frontispiece lithograph facsimile of 1837 view of San Francisco. The original diary is in the collction of the California State Library. First Series of Rare Americana, No. 4. Graborn Press Bibliography 172. Free endpapers darkened, as usual, slight wear to spine ends, but very good

Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.

EDWARDS, Philip Leget.. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards. The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837.. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: 47 pp. Large 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed marbled boards. First edition. Boards rubbed at corners; light use. Rare Americana Series, Number 4.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Edwards, Philip Leget; Introduction by Douglas S. Watson. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards: The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: 47pp. Small slim quarto [25.5 cm] 1/4 pale green cloth with marbled paper over boards, and a green paper title labels stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Color frontispiece illustration of Yerba Buena, from a lithograph by John J. Vioget. Top edge trimmed, other edges deckled. Very good. The free endsheets are heavily darkened. With the publisher's original bill to the subscriber in a Grabhorn Press envelope tucked in. Number 4, Rare American Series. From the Introduction- "Aside from the historical importance which Henry R. Wagner in his 'Plains and the Rockies' assigns to it, the story of the great cattle drive from California to Oregon in 1837 presents a picture of early western life, of hardships and obstacles overcome, told in forceful yet simple language, which gave it a lasting place in the literature of the American conquest of this continent."

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Edwards, Philip Leget. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards: The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1873. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original cloth-backed marbled boards; paper title labels mounted on spine and front board. Endpapers foxed.

Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.

EDWARDS, Philip Leget. Diary of Philip Leget Edwards. , 1932.

Price: US$82.50 + shipping

Description: EDWARDS, Philip Leget. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards: The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press,1932. One of 500 copies. Tall 8vo. [6], 47, [1] pp., frontis., headpiece. Orig. cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper labels. Fine. HOWES E-66. Publisher's shipping label laid in. Colored frontispiece of Yerba Buena (now San Francisco) in the spring of 1837 after a lithograph by John J. Vioget. From the Grabhorn Press Rare Americana Series, No. 4.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.

Edwards, Philip Leget. The DIARY Of PHILIP LEGET EDWARDS. The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837. Rare Americana Series, No. 4.; Introduction by Douglas S. Watson. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$93.50 + shipping

Description: [6], 47, [1 (blank)] pp. Color frontis, after a lithograph by John J. Vioget. Headpiece in sepia by Arvilla Parker. 8vo. 10-1/8" x 7-3/8" Browning to endsheets. Prior owner book label to front paste-down. A VG+ copy. Green cloth spine over brown & blue marbled paper boards. Printed green paper title onlay to front board 1st edition thus (Adams HERD 748; Howes E-66; Magee 172). 1 / 500 cc. SIGNED by Ed Grabhorn.

Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.

Edwards, Philip Leget. THE DIARY OF PHILIP LEGET EDWARDS THE GREAT CATTLE DRIVE FROM CALIFORNIA TO OREGON IN 1837. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: [4],47pp. Tinted frontis. Quarto. Cloth backed marbled boards, printed label. Some light foxing on endpapers. Fine. Narrative of the first recorded cattle drive in California, originally published serially in THEMIS magazine in the 1860's. The present edition, limited to 500 copies, was issued as Number 4 in the Rare Americana Series published by the Grabhorn Press. HOWES E66. REESE, SIX SCORE 36 (note). WAGNER-CAMP 48 (note).

Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

Edwards, Philip Leget. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards. The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837. First Edition, Dust Jacket. Illustrated. The Grabhorn Press, 1932. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Edition. Original marbled paper-covered boards over cloth spine, printed label on front cover. Both end papers heavily foxed, but with original plain paper dust jacket. Illustrated with a color frontispiece.

Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.