Colton Rev (68 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 1948, 4to, xiv, 261pp, index, illustrated. Light wear, else VG. First California Edition, limited to 1000cc. Number 16 in the California Centennial Editions. Colton was the first alcalde of Monterey under American control and one of the founders of the first American newspaper in California. His earlier book - DECK AND PORT; OR, INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS - was an interesting narrative of a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia in October of 1845, to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and ending at California about nine months later. He then wrote THREE YEARS IN CALIFORNIA, 1850, (see Zamorano 80 and Howes 625)) of which this book is a reissue, relating his experiences in that state.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. solid hardcover 1890 edition cover shows light wear binding tight overall good.

Hardcover. Ex-library, with the usual ownership markings and withdrawn stamp; covers lightly rubbed; corners worn; ends of backstrip chipped and small section of top end lacking; 2.5-inch split at bottom of front hinge; pages lightly edge-browned with occasional light foxing; frontispiece toned with browned tissue guard; previous owner's name on title page; otherwise very good condition. Covers embossed, with gilt pictorial decoration on front cover. . 366p. Illus. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Two engravings: "Constantinople" and "Athens".

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Binding loosened in front (the stitching is a bit loose). Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Tight, clean copy with rubbing to board edges, light pulling to head and tail of spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

313 pp. plus ads. 8vo, publisher's cloth. Old ink ownership signatures; foxing throughout; cloth frayed at extremities but tight and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1852 - Hardcover with red boards in Good conditon with wear to extremities, bumping and cloth tears to corners, rubbing to covers. Pages are flat and discolored due to age, foxing throughout. Binding is good. Previous owner's name in ink to first page. AL SKU-222483 Antique.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. G/none, used hc, 437 pages + 8 pages of other books the publisher offers for sale. Brown embossed cloth over boards with a gilt church illustration on upper, and gilt text on spine; cover shows overal scuffing, bare and crushed corners, minor chips and shelfwear to head and tail of spine. Interior pages are mostly clean but there are a few that have pencil marks and notations, and pages are yellowed; the ffep and front paste down have pencilled notations; tissue between author's sketch and title page; tender front hinge. Binding is tight and square.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Undated. Small volume bound in green cloth with elaborate designs in gilt to the front cover and spine. Spine ends worn and all corners bumped. Otherwise the book is clean, tight and unmarked. All edges bright gilt. Dark brown paste-downs and endpapers. Frontis with small tissue guard intact. Four page preface, then the Byron poems. 298 pp., 4.25" x 5.75".

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Second Edition. (w/o dj) A clean tightly bound hardcover copy without jacket. Front and back covers loose. Showing head and foot wear to the spine and edges of the boards. A really nice copy overall.

ed. hardback very good condition in a very good dust jacket.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Small quarto, red cloth with spine lettering and the image of a gold miner pan in hand on the front board in gold stamping in clear mylar wrapper, marbled endpapers, xvi, 261 pp., map, decorative capitals printed in red, seven full-page color plates, two in-text illustrations, large fold-out reproduction of th "Declaration of Rights in the Constitution of California and the Signatures of the Members of the Convention," index Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. First California Edition. 1000 copies printed by the Gillick Press, Berkeley, California.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Binding is split and the cover is in poor condition, internally clean, page edges are untrimmed Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Complete 2 volumes bound in one. Three quarter tan calf leather cover over marbled boards has heavy wear to corners. Front board detached. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages have modest foxing but overall in very good condition. An excellent candidate for repair or rebinding. .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. California Centennial Edition, First California Edition, 1/1000 copies. 261 pages, untrimmed; pictorial red pebble boards with gilt stamping. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex library copy with some of the usual markings. No jacket; mild shelfwear - but nothing severe. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Gray/green cloth on boards with bright gilt lettering to front and spine with drawing of the Old Meeting House on front, top edge bright gilt, brown endpapers. Ex-libris plate on FFEP but no name. A collection of papers by the Reverend, assembled by his brother. Now protected with archival quality mylar.

Hardbound. Publishers embossed dark cloth. 366 pp. + 6 pp. ads at rear. Engraved frontispiece. Previous owner's signature. A nice tight copy. VG-, small piece missing from top of spine, small library label at base of spine and bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Special Edition. Mark in gutter by title page; California Centennial Edition red cover with gold panner illus in gold ; Maps, duatones; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 261 pages.

London: 1822. Volume !! Front board detached. 184p. Bound is REMARKS ON THE TALENTS OF LORD BYRON AND THE TENDENCIES OF DON JUAN (50p.); LINES TO SANDT, THE ASSISSIN OF ROTZEBUE (2p.); TO THE MEMORY OF THE ABBE EDGEWORTH./TO CANOVA/DON CARLOS (pp53-56) and the THE CONFLAGRATION OF MOSCOW (fourth edition with extensive additions. 1822. (30p.). Octavo in leather with minimal foxing. From the Library of L. H. Cress New York acquisition No 346. Poetry.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Vintage Edition. Octavo. Original blindstamped blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering and illustrations on front cover and spine, ad pastedowns and free end papers. Very good, spine ends and corners bumped, wear to gutters of spine, spine discolored, pages agetoned and foxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Navy cloth cover has wear to corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Antiquated notes on front paste down and end sheet related to book and antiquated handwritten plate on front end sheet (one of which notes it was presented by a niece of the author). Pages are clean and pristine. .

456 pp. plus pub. cat. Complete with frontispiece and 12 plates. 8vo, publisher's cloth. Later edition. Some scattered inoffensive foxing; spine sunned with light wear to extremities; tight and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. . as pictured First edition,1850 titlepage , library rebound in oatmeal cloth , no spine lettering . very good condition hard cover, vintage library bookplate MacArthur Library Biddleford Maine , no other marks , gently read clean pages.

16Mo Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Revised. 493pp. Brown boards, golden black-labeled lettering on spine. Text is clean on unmarked natural pages. Hinges are secure with slight separation, textblock is square with bumped corners. Good condition for its age, moderate++ overall shelf/timewear, boardwear, spottage and abrading on boards and spine, spine label is chipped, faint numbers written on inside front, insect damage on lower foredge corner of pages and board, foxing and blush throughout.

First Edition. Very Good (covers nice, gilt bright; tiny nick title page; contents clean & tight, ink presentation front blank page). 8vo., embossed cloth brown cloth; stamped in gilt;198 pages.

Embossed Cloth. Condition: G. No Jacket. None Stated. 288 pp, b/w frontis, the page edges are gilded, the book and contents are solid and tight, the pages are clean with occasional foxing, the former owner had written his name 5 times on the verso of the frontis, the inside hinges are lightly worn, but tight, the covers are tight and have some wear and soil, the front cover is gold-embossed and has Byron's name daigonally embossed in green, the 1/4" top of the spine cloth is gone, a horizontal tear in the spine cloth is reglues, there are 2 small holes in the cloth also, the balance of the covers have some wear and soil, the book is not dated, but appears to be in the 1850's area + or --.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Two volumes bound in one, original black half leather with marbled boards, 267 & 186 pages plus 56pp (Remarks talents Byron) & 30pp (Conflagration Moscow) covers rubbed otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom.

Full Calf. Condition: Fair. Sixteenth Edition. xiii + 267 + v +184 + 56 + 30pp + index. Some looseness at hinges but all holding together. Some foxing, mainly to end pages otherwise interior in nice clean condition. top inch of leather of spine missing. Marbled end-papers, most of fep cut off, missing blanks etc prior to Title page (see pic),