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Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford University, Calif., 1950
Seller: DRM books, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 93 pages plus i-xi. "A Chapter in Western Transportation." Book 7 in the Stanford Transportation Series. Illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Dust jacket- Poor. Unclipped. Large to moderate tears, chips. Tattered. Ships in Brodart cover. Boards- tan cloth, brown illustration of camels on front. Brown and gilt lettering on spine. Pictorial maps on end papers. Owner book plate, pencil price on front end paper. Binding- tight. Pages- age toned, clean.
Published by Stanford University Press, 1950
Seller: Erlandson Books, Mesa, AZ, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover. Owners name on end paper and blemish to blank page preceding the title page else Very Good condition. Dust Jacket chipped and worn. Sizable piece missing at the bottom of spine else Good condition.
Published by Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, 1950
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 93pp. Several photos and illustrations. Owner's signature on endpaper. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA, 1950
Seller: Nemona Collectables, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. NAME PENNED INSIDE FRONT COVER. SPINE SCUFFED SLIGHTLY.
Published by Stanford University Press, 1950
Seller: Springer Books, Sequim, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Beige cloth boards in mylar protected illustrated dust jacket. Illustrations, map and biographical notes. 93 pp. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD dust jacket.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
paperback. illus., folding map. 93pp. 8vo, pr. wrs.; (tear to back wr.). (Ann Arbor: Univ. Microfilms, 1970). A xeroxed facsimile.
Published by Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1950
Seller: Darwin Labordo, Books, Sierra Madre, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book and dustjacket are near fine. First edition.
Published by Stanford University Press, 1950
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Good.
Published by Stanford University Press, 1950
Seller: Epilonian Books, Manhattan Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Stanford University Press [Published date: 1950]. Hard cover, 93 pp. No other or subsequent printings listed. Hardcover book in good condition with a dust jacket in acceptable to poor condition. Tan cloth covered boards with brown illustration of a camel and lettering on the front and brown lettering on spine. Light scuffing and spotting along edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has only 4" of paper remaining on spine. Front flap is almost separated with 1" still attached. Several other major chips and tears along edges, insect damage and moderate overall rubbing to jacket as well. NOT price clipped ($3.50). Now in an archival Brodart cover. NOT Ex-library. Includes several nice illustrations. This is the seventh book in the Stanford Transportation Series. [From front jacket flap] By HARLAN D. FOWLERGround desert campfires from Texas toCalifornia one hears of the phantom camels. Sometimes the camel is a great red one with a leather army saddle; sometimes it is ghostly and white, moving across the sands into the distance. It may carry a ghostly rider?perhaps a skeleton lashed to its back. Or it may be young and frisky, a hint that somewhere in the hills a herd breeds and multiplies. Fanciful as these American camels may seem, the stories of their shadowy forms drifting through the deserts ring with more than a little truth. Following the war with Mexico, the United States considered the use of camels to solve the difficult problems of transportation in the arid Southwest. A Navy ship was modified for carrying the heavy beasts and a commission was sent abroad to purchase camels at various Levantine ports. By 1857 two shiploads had been landed in Texas, and in the subsequent years both Arabian and Bactrian camels were used extensivelyfor the carrying of supplies and express and the pioneering of new routes between Texas and California.But with the advancing times the camels' usefulness came to an end and some were auctioned to circuses. Others were abandoned to fend for themselves on the broad deserts of the Southwest.In CAMELS TO CALIFORNIA Harlan D. Fowler brings the complete story to publication for the first time. Quoting from historical documents and drawing on his personal exploration of the Army camps and overland trails, he traces this experiment in transportation from its inception in the mind of Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War, through the procuring and transporting of the beasts, and on to the myths that have grown to the stature of folklore. The camel episode thus becomes one of the most fascinatingChapters in Western history.
Published by Stanford University Press, 1950
Seller: Sunny Day Books, Mayer, AZ, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good. A rare copy of this book. Binding tight. Pages not marked by notes or highlighting. Some dings to the corners and spine. A nice copy. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily.
Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford University, CA, 1950
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 93 pages; Price clipped dust jacket with light rubbing, some darkening and wear, book is in otherwise fine condition.
Published by Stanford University Press., Stanford., 1950
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 93 pps.
Published by Stanford University Press,, Stanford, CA, 1950
Seller: Sabino Books, Oro Valley, AZ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hard cover as new. 91 pp. illus. biblio. notes 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California, 1980
Seller: Springer Books, Sequim, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Light green cloth boards with title and six camels stamped on front cover. Illustrations, portraits and maps. Bibliography and index. 173 pages. FINE.
Published by University of Oklahoma Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0870621319ISBN 13: 9780870621314
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Stanford U. Press, 1950
First Edition
First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.
Published by The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California, 1980
ISBN 10: 0870621319ISBN 13: 9780870621314
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 173 p. 16 illustrations, maps, and portraits. First edition, limited to 772 copies. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. "Fowler had previously published Camels to California (Stanford, 1950), and this narrative continued the tale by following the important of bactrian (two humped) camels as opposed to the dromedary (single humped) camels used by the U.S. Army in the West. The bactrian camel, greater in size than the dromedary, was a native of eastern Asia, and was imported to San Francisco for civilian use in 1860 and was utilized on the Comstock Lode of Nevada. They were also used throughout Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Washington, and British Columbia." Prospectus laid in. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt stamping. A fine copy. Clark, R. & P. Brunet: The Arthur H. Clark Company, #88.
Publication Date: 1980
First Edition
FOWLER, Harlan D. Three Caravans to Yuma: The Untold Story of Bactrian Camels in Western America. Glendale: Arthur Clark, 1980. 1st ed. Illus. maps. 173pp. Fine, with the publisher's prospectus.
Published by Stanford University, 1950
Seller: Andrew L. Christenson, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. authors signature on half title page; ink note and previous owners names on blank pages prior to half title page Account of the Edward F. Beale wagon road expedition in 1857 from Texas to California using camels as pack animals. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1950
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
First edition. 93pp. Illustrated with 18 plates. Yellow cloth printed in brown. Spine ends lightly worn, very minor general shelfwear, else a near fine copy. Lacking dust jacket. Traces this experiment in transportation from its inception in the mind of Edward Fitzgerald and Jefferson Davis, through the procuring and transporting of the camels, and on to the myths surrounding the whole episode.
Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1950
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Small 4to. Yellow cloth with brown lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 93pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/good only. Jacket quite edgeworn, with many edge chips. Tight, nice first edition of this tale of a bizarre 1857 attempt to bring camels to California on a route through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Handsomely signed and inscribed by the author in blue ballpoint on an inner flyleaf: "Compliments / of / Harlan D. Fowler / Christmas -- 1952." Laid in is a glossy pictorial 3¼" X 1½" "Joy at Christmas" gift tag on which he pens, "To / Netty and Stanley / From Dorothy -- Harlan." Fowler (1895-1982) was a noted aeronautical engineer and inventor best remembered for the still-used Fowler flap. Signed copies of this title are quite uncommon.
Published by Pacific Press, 1948
Seller: John Hopkinson - Bookseller, Cremona, AB, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st edition signed copy unmarked tear in cover.