Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Front free end paper of Vol. I is inscribed & signed in ink by Dale Morgan. Very slight musty odor, lightly foxed endpapers, tape stain on fore-edges of endpapers to both volumes. News article clipping glued to fep of Vol. I, otherwise textblocks are very clean and tight, and appear unread; No remainder marks. Dark red cloth spine and red paper boards are immaculate, with illustrated front covers; Dust jackets are sun-toned but unclipped, with tape stain on both jackets; Vol 2 jacket has a closed tear and a chip at the head of the spine, both jackets shelf soiled with overall light edge wear; Vol. I is 457pp. Vol. II is pages 458-825 with rear folded map. One of 1,000 sets. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: TWO VOLUMES 22 x 15 cm, 457; [ii], 458-825, colophon, folding map [California-Oregon Trails 1846] pp., Illus. with 5 b/w folding maps [4 of which on 2 sheets printed 2 sides]. 8vo. One of 100 specially bound copies signed by the author on the half title in volume one. "An important overland work of the first magnitude. Contains an abundance of information on the emigrants of 1846 never before published in book form" (Mintz p. 97). Volume One contains the Shiveley Guidebook and eleven diaries; volume two contains mostly letters. The maps in the rear on two sheets are the rare T.H. Jefferson map. Lacking the slipcase. Mintz 336. Quarter black morocco over marbled boards.
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 825 pp. Illus. with 5 b/w folding maps [4 of which on 2 sheets printed 2 sides]. 8vo. One of 100 specially bound copies signed by the author on the half title in volume one. "An important overland work of the first magnitude. Contains an abundance of information on the emigrants of 1846 never before published in book form" (Mintz p. 97). Volume One contains the Shiveley Guidebook and eleven diaries; volume two contains mostly letters. The maps in the rear on two sheets are the rare T.H. Jefferson map. Lacking the slipcase. Mintz 336. Quarter morocco over marbled boards
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$788.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED by the author. Two Volumes. 8vo. [8], 9-457; 458-825 pp. Index. Two folding sheets displaying four maps in rear pocket of Vol. I; one fold-out map & errata sheet in Vol II; black & white illustrations. Black leather spines over marbled paper covered boards; housed in publisher's slipcase which shows a hint of wear. A fine set. 'An edited compilation of primary sources from the first year of significant migration to Oregon and California, divided generally by geographic area and trail. These volumes are perhaps the richest gathering of material relating to the beginnings of overland travel.' - Saunders 44. Volume I is principally made up of overland diaries, which for the most part have never been published. Volume II presents letters written along the trail by such notable figures as Edwin Bryant, William H. Russell, James Frazier Reed, Tamsen Donner, Charles T. Stanton, Virginia Reed, James Applegate and more, shedding new light on the Donner tragedy, the pioneering of the Hastings and Applegate Cutoffs, and other events of the year. (Mintz pg. 97).
Seller: Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA, Monterey, CA, U.S.A.