Beach James Perkins (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1896. 122 pp. 27 x 18 cm. Blue cloth covered boards with light blue title labels with black lettering on front cover and spine, in a plain glassine dustjacket. Some toning to spine of jacket, with some bumping and wear to spine ends and a small 3 x 5 mm chip missing from center of spine of jacket. Slight rubbing to corners of boards. Publisher's prospectus laid-in at front. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding firm. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.…

Hardcover. First edition. Blue cloth with printed paper title labels, octavo, 122 pp. Tipped-in color frontispiece, facsimiles, folding plate from photograph. Edition of 550 copies printed at the Arion Press Fine in glassine jacket with toning to jacket edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition: one of 550 copies printed. Publication number 183. With eight plates (two fold-out) including two maps and a facsimile journal page. Fine in vivid, blue cloth with printed labels to front cover and spine; original clear dust jacket that has yellowed somewhat with age. Tipped-in frontis-illustration of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill showing the Apollo at the wharves. Large octavo. Comprehensive journal of the 8-month voyage, kept by the owner's son, and published here for the first time; accompanied by descriptions of Beach's career before and after the trip. The first definitive biography of a member of the "Gold Rush Fleet.…

Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. A very fine, clean and tight copy in original wrapper. One of 550 copies published by The Book Club of California. Book is in like new condition. Plain wrapper has one small piece missing from the bottom edge and a couple of tiny closed tears. No bumped corners to book. No signatures.…

Cloth. Condition: As New. First Edition. 122 pages. First Edition. One of 550 limited copies. Prosptectus laid in. Blue cloth. Printed spine and cover title labels. Quarto. Color frontispiece tipped in. Illustrated with eight plates (including two folding). Designed and printed at the Arion Press, San Francisco. Letterpress on Mohawk Superfine paper. Foreword by John Haskell Kembell. The packet ship Apollo, built in 1831, was purchased in 1848 by Moses Yale Beach, the father of the keeper of this journal, Joseph Perkins Beach. She sailed around the horn in 1849, loaded with mining implements other goods to be sold at Gold Rush prices in San Francisco. Abandoned by her crew on landing, Apollo was beached, shorn of her masts, and used as a storehouse, offices and a coffeehouse, before being destroyed by fire in 1851. This is the first definitive biography of a member of the "Gold Rush Fleet". (BCC #183; Kurutz 44). As New copy in the original glassine wrapper. Original Glassine Wrapper (with Brodart protective sleeve). …

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Cloth. Dust wrapper. Illustrations. 550 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem. In the Foreword mention is made of the number of journals kept by those travelling from the East coast to California; some journals were maintained for the entire trip, others o nly for a short time, but they reflected "the personality, interests, and experiences of the writer". Joseph Perkins Beach's Cape Horn journal has elements of significance. His "father owned the ship and that he served as supercargo and captain's cl erk placed him in an important position aboard Apollo". "Since Beach was responsible in part for the sale of the cargo after Apollo reached San Francisco, his account of the last months of 1849 when the cargo was being landed and disposed of is part icularly interesting".…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 132 pages. Fiction: Double Homicide; Lady With a Lure; The Date for the Wedding; Foreign Wife; The Magnificent Phony ( part 2 of 5); Fool's Treasure (conclusion). Articles: Crisis in North Africa - Fez, Morocco - with several photos including shot of assassination attempt on Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Arafa; ; The Face of America - Log Drive; I'll Stay in the Air Force - Maybe; The Rugged John Foster Dulles; Big Brave from Milwaukee - Gene Conley; He Makes His Living Whittling - article and great color photos of John Lacey; Trypsin - Mysterious New Drug; They Gamble on Offshore Oil - drilling in the Gulf of Mexico; Incredible Railroad - the Long Island Rail Road; Ads: Nice American Motors ad features a yellow Hornet Custom Sedan; American Blower ad features nice photo of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan; Two-page TWA ad compares air and rail times/prices; Chevrolet ad features salmon-colored Bel Air Convertible; Whitman's Chocolates; Oldsmobile Holiday Sedan (nice); Republic Steel; Mercury cars (color photos); Lucky Strike - tennis theme; Studebaker trucks; Thor Impact Wrenches; Frigidaire fridges; Champion spark plug ad features driver Jim Bryan; Fantastic color-photo two-page ad for General Motors features the Nomad and Safari; Life Savers; Douglas DC-7 (wedding scene); Allis-Chalmers tractors; Saginaw power steering ad features nice large photo of Mauri Rose, famous race and test driver; Santa Fe passenger rail ad; Jayson shirts; Ray-Ban sun glasses - great one-page color-photo ad; Captain Eddie Rickenbacker is featured in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Falter, John (cover); Spring, Bob and Ira; Riley, Ken; Buckham, Lynn; Stahl, Ben; Kidder, Harvey; Meyers, Robert; Georgi, Edwin; (illustrator).…