John ross browne (551 résultats)

paperback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company , Chicago ,1951. First edition Vintage Pulp magazine in Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.75"], 130 pages, illustrated. Includes "Excalibur and the Atom" by Theodore Sturgeon, "With This Ring" by Dallas Ross, "The Spoilers of Lern" by Clee Garson, "Everybody Loves Irving Bommer" by William Tenn, "The Man With the Clutching Hand" by Paul W. Fairman, "Very Cold for Conquest" by P. F. Costello, etc. A very good copy with small edge tears and light dust soiling , text lightly toned. See Photos Mag 30 / E. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Reprint Edition. Promontory Press, New York. 1974. Hardcover. Facsimile reissue of the 1871 edition. America's Pioneer Heritage Series. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to tail; toning of pages. DJ: Very Good; NOT price Clipped ($10.00); light tanning to spine and flap edges; bumping to spine. Brown grained boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. 535 pp 8vo. This book recounts the author's 1863 treacherous journey through Arizona and New Mexico as well as his subsequent travels to Virginia City, the Comstock Lode and the mines of northern Nevada. He aptly describes the differences in lifestyles of the inhabitants of AZ and NM barely scraping by to those of the prosperous miners and people in Nevada. Told with wit and candor and accompanied with over 150 of the author's drawings. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. Copy #26. Light wear only. A few notes in the margins.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. This is a nice rare nonfiction booklet about the true accounts of Gold Mining at Bodie Bluff California together with some account of The Alkali Waters of Mono Lake "The Dead Sea of the West" called Vintage Reading, conducted by R. & V. Buday. The booklet has a cluff mark where price sticker once was, otherwise minor wear and in good condition with tight binding, some nice black and white photographs and 72 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Ross Browne and Eleanor Campulli (illustrateur).…

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. 520 very good, creases, store stamp inside paperback.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Illustrierter Hardcover. Etat : Sehr gut erhalten. 319 S. Size: 425 g. Buch.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. Buday Books, which was located in Gilbertsville New York, issued a series of reprints titled "Vintage Reading". The book offered here is one of the "Vintage Reading" series, published in 1993. It is a compilation of several titles, the main ones (listed on the cover) are as follows : "True Accounts of Gold Mining at Bodie Bluff, California" ; "The Alkali Waters of Mono Lake - the Dead Sea of the West in the Sierra Nevada". Of note is the inclusion of an 1893 short story by 19th Century Nevada author, F. Hayden Carruth ("The Cash Money of Sunset City"). The book is generously illustrated with reproductions of old engravings, halftone photographs, and a few detailed line maps, which are nice and clear. The book is now Out of Print ( OP ) TABLE OF CONTENTS : - A Trip to Bodie Bluff, California -and- "The Dead Sea of the West" - by John Ross Browne (1864) - Biographical Sketch of John Ross Browne - The Many Lives and Times of Bodie, with Notice of its Present Circumstances - Mono Lake - The Not-So-Dead Sea of the West, and What the Intrepid Traveler may Find - Adapted from the Accounts of William V. Wells (1860), L. P. Brockett (1881), G. Thomas Ingham (1888), William M. Thayer (1891), and Contemporary Sources. With Special Material and Photographs from California Department of Parks and Recreation - and The Friends of Bodie. - A Short Story : "The Cash Money of Sunset City" .- by F. Hayden Carruth (1893) - Index to Proper Names - Postscript : Go All the Way West, Young Man CONDITION -- Near Fine -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive with near-negligible signs of handling : Slight yawn to front cover and slight surface rub to rear cover. No writing, no underlining or marginalia, no signatures. …

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. First Edition. UK edition. Chipping to the top and bottom of the spine with some rubbing and light tearing along the edges. Chipping around the edges of the front cover. Browning to the back cover. Browning to the page edges with some chipping and creasing to the corners. The pages are browned with some small edge tears to a few pages. Contains 'Death of a Spaceman' by Miller, 'The Double Spy' by Moore, 'Ring Once for Death' by Arthur, 'The Draw' by Bixby, 'Operation Lorelie' by Salton, 'Keep Out' by Brown, 'Sorry, Wrong Dimension' by Rocklynne, 'Call Him Savage' by Pollard (Howard Browne),'The Cuckoo Clock' by Barefoot, 'Appointment at Noon' by Russell and 'Leonardo in War. and in Peace' an art feature by Castenir. Cover by Clarence Doore. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Doore, Clarence; Schroeder, Ernest; Kossin, Sanford; Barth, Ernie; Ashman, William; Castenir, Ralph (illustrateur).…

Etat : New.

Etat : New.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Mining Adventures: California And Nevada, 1863-1865. Book.

Etat : New.

paperback. Etat : New.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Etat : New.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Etchings of a Whaling Cruise [microform]: With Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar, to Which is Appended a Brief History of the Whale Fishery. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. xxii, 42 pages : color illustrations, portrait, facsimile. Publisher's binding sturdy, corners sharp, mild sunning to edges; contents unmarked and attractive. One of 400 copies. 420 grams.

Etat : New.