dave cook rockies frontier general de collier william ross edwin victor (12 résultats)

1st edition. xv,224pp, (6x9 inches), b&w plates, frontis photo of Cook. Very Good, Hardcover but no jacket. Red boards, corners bumped, a few little spots, some wear to edges. Pages are tanning, but clean and bright, no tears or creases, no markings. Gold mining, rustlers, warfare, vigilantes, train robbers, the cattle business, et al.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Original cloth. PO name, slight bumping/foxing. The DJ in mylar has some closed edge tears, toning and minor chips. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

First edition, first printing. Illustrated from contemporary photographs taken by Joseph Collier. 224 pages. Offsetting from laid-in clipping to front endsheets, else fine; in a very good minus dust jacket: worn, edge-torn, age-darkened, rubbed, soiled, reinforced from verso with cello-tape. Cook traveled to Colorado in 1858, and later became a soldier, city marshal of Denver, sheriff of Arapaho County, United States marshal, general of the Colorado Militia and founder and chief of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1936 - Hardcover, dustjacket is chipped and has closed tears, 1/4" chip at crown of spine, VG/G. Biography of Cook from his begining in law enforcement, guarding supply trains during the Civil War, to his death in 1907. During his career he arrested more than 3000 criminals, among the more than 50 murderers.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [3], v-xv, [1], 1-224 pp. Purple cloth with navy lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and a few additional plates of black and white photographs by Joseph Collier. A Near Fine book with mild darkening to the gutters in a Near Very Good dust jacket with a small closed tear on the spine panel and a few additional traces of edge wear.

hardcover, Etat : Good, Rufus Rockwell Wilson Inc. NY 1936, matching dates, 8vo. cloth, 224pp. G $.

Purple Cloth. Etat : Light edge and Corner Wear. Etat de la jaquette : Chipped Dust Jacket. First Edition. Off-setting front endpapers from previously-placed newsprint. Portrait frontispiece and 13 additional illustrations from photographs byJoseph Collier. 224pp. See Six-Guns 466. Size: Octavo.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Illustrated by Joseph Collier (illustrateur). First Edition. From the introduction, "Yet, General Cook was one of the great human factors in the dramatic rise of the Rocky Mountain empire which we know as the Border Region. To this frontier, beset with perils unsurpassed, he brought safety for the settlers." Six Guns Number 466. Ships same or next business day. Spine is skewed and loose. Moderate edge wear, small bumps on corners and spine ends. Fabric on spine and head edge of front board is faded. Some soiling to boards and edges of pages. Pages are tanned, occasional creases from dog-ears throughout. Text is clean. No dust jacket. Protected in archival cover. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 224 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. First edition. 224pp. Frontis portrait, 13 illustrations from old photographs. Maroon cloth lettered in black. A fine copy with slightly chipped and spine-darkened pictorial dust jacket (jacket is scarce!). Biography of this famous Colorado detective from the beginning in 1859 when he went to Colorado during the gold rush, to guarding supply trains during the Civil War, to his death in 1907. Cook became city marshal of Denver, was sheriff of Arapaho County, was a United States marshal, General of the Colorado Militia, and founder and Chief of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association. During his 40 year career he arrested more than 3000 criminals, including 50 murderers. Includes "an extended account of the capture of Musgrove and his gang, as well as other outlaws" (Six-Guns). Most of the historic photographs in this work were hitherto unpublished and taken c. 1880 by Joseph Collier, the first photographer to carry dark-room tent and chemicals by pack train into the heart of the Rockies. [Six-Guns: 466]. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Joseph Collier (illustrateur). 1st Edition. 224 pp., frontis, photographs. A fine, tight, unmarked copy in a very good clipped dust jacket with spine and edge chipping. David J.Cook traveled to Colorado in 1858, and later became a soldier, city marshal of Denver, sheriff of Arapaho County, United States marshal, general of the Colorado Militia and founder and chief of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association. Six-Guns #466.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Biography of this longtime soldier and lawman in Colorado beginning with his arrival in 1863. _____ "A history of this famous Colorado detective, with an extended account of the capture of Musgrove and his gang, as well as other outlaws." --Six-Guns 466. _____ Henkle/Co=235___ Wilcox/Co=p.25_____ Wynar/CO=7003 _____ Illustrated with excellent archival photos. _____ The jacket is in pieces with internal tape, heavily worn and missing the top third across the back panel. _____.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. This is a very good copy of the First American edition without dust jacket. The pages are age-toned; contents fine. The corners and the head and tail of the spine are lightly worn; else fine. 8vo (224 pages; black and white photographs; photographic frontispiece).