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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Subtitled, Letters Written en route to California, West from Independence, Missouri, to the Editor of The Joliet Signal. Beige cloth covers with gold cover printing and an image of a covered wagon; 50 pp; illustrations; illustrated endpapers. Limited edition, this being copy # 42 of 314 printed. This is the Ye Galleon Press edition of the Ingersoll letters that were originally printed by the Black Cat Press in 1937 in an edition of 350 copies. The letters to the editor of the newspaper back home, were almost in a daily diary entry format. Good account of going across the Plains to California just prior to the Gold Rush. [19-XWAX].
Published by Black Cat Press, Chicago, 1937
Seller: Bluestem Books, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited to 350 copies. Some very slight soiling to the covers otherwise A fine, bright, clean and unmarked hardcover. Bluestem Books is an independent brick-and-mortar bookstore established in 1984.
Published by Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, WA, 1970
Seller: Amanda Patchin, Boise, ID, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued. First Thus. Mattes 3-Star. Limited, numbered edition of 314 copies. Endpaper drawing. Have 4 copies. Crisp, clean, new copies.
Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1937 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 64 Language: English Pages: 64.
Published by Black Cat Press, Chicago, 1937
First Edition
Decorative Cloth. Condition: VG-. No Jacket. First Edition This Publisher. Book has owner bookplate, foxed endpapers, cover soiling. Limited edition, one of 350 copies. Book.
Published by Black Cat Press, Chicago, IL, 1937
Seller: Brodsky Bookshop, Taos, NM, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Chicago: Black Cat Press. 1937 . Edited by Douglas C. McMurtrie. Limited Edition, 350 copies. Designed by Alfred Sterges & Norman W. Forgue. An edited collection of letters written by Ingersoll during his journey to California. 8vo. (5.75 x 8.5 in.). Beige, oatmeal-textured cloth over boards. Brown cow skull graphic on cover, brown titling on spine. Light wear, 2 small marks on cover. Beige pages show light toning on the edges. Nicely produced with graphical numbering of each chapter/letter.
Published by Black Cat Press., Chicago., 1937
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First edition. Limited edition of 350 copies. Important reference work. Illustrated. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (small owner name). 50 pps.
Published by Black Cat Press, Chicago, 1937
Seller: Carydale Books, Rhinebeck, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. First Edition. octavo, ca. 6" x 9", bound in tan cloth covered boards with light wear and soiling, contents near fine, pp. 50, very good to Near fine copy. Shipping outside the USA may cost less than that of an average book.
Published by Black Cat Press, Chicago, IL, 1937
Seller: Cat House Books LLC, Pensacola, FL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. 50pp. Decorated boards. First edition. Howes I39: "First separate printing of these letters as published in a Joliet newspaper, 1847-48." One of 350 copies published. Wagner-Camp-Becker 151; "This may be the sole contemporary printed account of an 1847 overland trip to California." Not in Cowan. See also: Heckman 183. Paher, Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography, 943. Mintz: The Trail, 253.
Published by Black Cat Press
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Used - Very Good. 1937. Cloth, octavo, 50 pp. One of 300 copies. Howes I-39. Protected with a clear glassine wrapper. Very good.
Published by Chicago, Black Cat Press, 1937., 1937
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Illustrations by Alfred Sterges. Edited with a 4 page introduction by Douglas C. McMurtrie. Original tan cloth stamped in dark brown with a vignette of a long horn's skeleton on the front cover. Very good. 50 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. One of 350 copies, November 1937.
Published by Chi. 1937, 1937
Seller: T A Swinford, Bookseller, Sun city west, AZ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
cloth. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed 50pp, cloth nice Howes I-39 Rader #943 Mintz #253 Originally published in the Joliet, Ill. newspaper in 1847-48. First book edition, ltd. to 350 copies, a nice overland account.