Mary jane megquier (16 résultats)

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. Introduction to the first edition by Robert Glass Cleland. ; 8.50 X 5.50 X 0.60 inches.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Near Very Good. 1st Edition. Unmarked, Clean And Solid. Black Covers With Gold Inset On Front Cover Showing Two Men Kneeling And Panning For Gold. Gold Lettering On Spine. Dust Jacket With Small Cuts And Tiny Bits Missing From Edges; Dj Now In Protective Mylar Jacket.…

Hardcover. Black cloth, gold lettering, no dj, lightly rubbed, ex-lib. California; 20132.

Etat : VERY GOOD. First printing. According to family tradition, Mary Jane Megquier was the first white woman to cross the Isthmus of Panama during the Gold Rush, She left her home in Winthrop, Maine to accompany her husband, a physician, to San Francisco. Illustrations. 99 pages. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press. Very good+ in a good+ dustjacket (prev owner's name stamp on front endpaper, peeled spot on spine on dj, chip on front.).…

Hard cover. First edition. Stated first edit. From manuscripts in the Huntington Library. Very good in very good dust jack.

Etat : VERY GOOD. First printing. According to family tradition, Mary Jane Megquier was the first white woman to cross the Isthmus of Panama during the Gold Rush, She left her home in Winthrop, Maine to accompany her husband, a physician, to San Francisco. Illustrations. 99 pages. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press. Fine in a slightly edgeworn dustjacket (price-clipped, a few small chips missing).…

Hardbound. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition, so stated. Description: Includes a frontis plus seven additional black and white plates. From the jacket blurb: ''According to family tradition, Mary Jane Megquier was the first white woman to cross the Isthmus of Panama during the Gold Rush. Whatever the truth of the tradition, the reader of the letters will remember her as the typical pioneer woman of the Great Migration. With unfailing courage and a saving sense of humor, she met fires, floods, vigilantes and housekeeping trials with undaunted spirit. From her tiny dwelling overlooking the busy bay of San Francisco her letters to her children bring to life the noisy, turbulent city, with its disasters and troubles matched by gay social affairs, theaters, concerts, dances, and occasional whiffs of scandal.'' BINDNG/CONDITION: black cloth with gilt spine text, paste-on vignette on the front board; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good- dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall). 99 pages.…

Black cl, applied pictorial ca. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Letters of a Maine physician's wife who established boarding houses in San Francisco provide eyewitness accounts of SF fires, floods, Gold Rush. Vivid descriptions of three sea voyages, Maine-California via Panama, Nicaragua. Edited by Robert Glass Cleland. ix, 99 pp. Fronti, lithographs (illustrateur). …

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Inscribed "Cordially and sincerely, Robert G. Cleland March 29, 1949." The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier From San Francisco, 1849-1856. Slight edgewear and stains to boards. Doctor and wife head for California during the Gold Rush. Inscribed and Signed By Author.…

Hardcover. First edition. 99 pages. Edited by Robert Glass Cleland. Illustrated. The wifeof one of the first American physicians to open an office in San Francisco. Life of San Francisco society in the early days of the Gold Rush. Orig. black cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. First edition.

dj. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 99 pps.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and suprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 99 pages; Description: ix, 99 p. Illus. , port. 24 cm. "From manuscripts in the Huntington Library." Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Megquier, Mary Jane, 1813-1899 --Correspondence. Voyages to the Pacific coast. Frontier and pioneer life --California. California --Gold discoveries. Series: Huntington Library publications 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and suprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 99 pages; Description: ix, 99 p. Illus. , port. 24 cm. "From manuscripts in the Huntington Library." Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Megquier, Mary Jane, 1813-1899 --Correspondence. Voyages to the Pacific coast. Frontier and pioneer life --California. California --Gold discoveries. Series: Huntington Library publications 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 8 vo. Black cl, applied pictorial cartouche. DJ in mylar wrap. POS label on front pastedown. Letters of a Maine physician's wife who established boarding houses in San Francisco provide eyewitness accounts of SF fires, floods, Gold Rush. Her letters vividly describe 3 sea voyages, Maine-California via Panama, Nicaragua. Edited by Robert Glass Cleland, Illustrated by lithographs, frontis portrait. ix, 99 pp. …