And Holmes Opal Laurel (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Linen type boards with gilt illustration on front lower corner and gilt lettering on spine. Binding is tight. Corners are sharp. Content is clean, no markings. Title pages have photographs of mining camps. Edges of pages have pencil markings, otherwise clean. Minimal shelf wear. DJ is in good condition. Includes: Table of Contents, Notes, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. 466 p. 8.75 x 11.5 x 2 inches. 4.39 lbs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Fourth Printing. Book is divided into four parts: PART I: The Gold Rushes: Fact or Fiction: The Blend of History and Legend; Gold: What It Is and Where It Is Found; The California Gold Rush; The Overland Journey; Other Gold Rushes. PART II: Life in the Camps: The Camps and Their People; Transportation; Food, Clothing, and Lodging; Camp Culture; Entertainment; Girls of the Line; Sports; Camp Angels. PART III: Crime and Justice: Some Problems in the Camps; Race Prejudice; Crime and Frontier Justice; Frontier Judges; Lawyers, Juries, and Jails; Bad Men; The Vigilantes. PART IV: Special Characters and Situations: Rages to Riches and Riches to Rags; Display of Wealth; Four Adventuresses; Brave Men and Cowards; Duels; Feuds; Hoaxes; Tall Tales and Lost Treasures. Contains over 250,000 words of text and illustrated with nearly 300 pictures, many of them photographs. Fourth Printing.…

Condition: Near Fine. First edition. xiii, 466 pp. Illus. with 227 b/w photos and drawings. 4to. A very good+ copy, light foxing on half-title and along fore edge, in a near fine dust jacket. Cloth with gilt titles and decoration.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. CG1 - DJ is mylar protected. A tight, clean, sound copy with minor overall shelf wear primarily in the form of some light foxing on the outside paper edges. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus it is price clipped. A book in the New History veign that seeks to dispel many of the fraudulent Hollywood myths that have come to be associated with the history of mining in the early American West. This book considers the gold rushes, life in the camps, crime and justice, and the special situations and unique events that came out of this period. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Endnotes, illustrations, indexed, 466p. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK BOOK IN NEAR FINE CONDITION,DUST JACKET IS VERY GOOD TO NEAR FINE,FIRST PRINTING MAY,1968,SECOND PRINTING AUGUST 1968.

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Original gilt decorated and lettered brown cloth. 466 pages. "Containing over 250,000 words of text, the book is handsomely illustrated with nearly 300 pictures, many of them published here for the first time." Neat previous owner name on the flyleaf otherwise both book and jacket are in bright, as new condition. A superb copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 406 pages with b/w photos. Cloth with dust jacket. Signed by both authors. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover in dust jacket. dj. First edition, first printing. Sunned edges ffep and rear free end paper and pastedowns, else fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st printing. 4to cloth with gilt-stamped image of miner & donkey on lower front cover. 466pp. Illust. Notes. Index of Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Index. If your bookseller were to pick a half-dozen best general survey books on Western mining, this would be right there at the top. Fine in dj with some stain inside the dj not affecting outside of dj.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fifth Printing. Fifth printing of a wonderful book detailing mining in the Old West. The Book is in very good condition in mylar cover. Pages are in fine condition. Large format book requires extra shipping. Inventory #000669. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Oversized, Heavy, Hardback. No Dust jacket. Signed by authors on half title page. Very Good Condition. Tight sound copy with owners name and address label on inside front cover, bumped corners, minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No Signature.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An account of the West covering four apects of life: the Gold Rushes, camp life, crime and justice, and the stories that became tales and legend. Signed by both authors. 466 pp. Owner's name on fep. Jacket has small tears and small piece of tape on back top of spine. Jacket is in Brodart jacket protector. All dust jackets are in Mylar acid-free protectors.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Signed by Author.…

Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. 466 Pages including index. Signed by both Vardis Fisher and Opal Laurel Holmes. Previous owner's name on first page, otherwise book is AS NEW. Signed by Both Authors.