Harris Benjamin Edited (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Norman, OK: University Press, 1960. 1st edition thus, F/VG. Book has light wear to spine ends. DJ has wear to upper edges & corners, tape repairs to upper rear panel near fold, 2 light stains at bottom of rear panel, surface wear to rear panel, 1 closed tear on rear panel. Black and white illustrations, 1 map. Includes footnotes, appendix (members of the Duvall party), bibliography and index. The Texas Argonauts left their home state in January, 1849 (one of the first parties to reach the gold fields from Texas) and arrived in the following September. Part of their journey was spent in northern Mexico (from ElPaso to near Tucson. Important memoir by Harris, which apparently was never published in his lifetime. He died in 1897. #31 in the American Exploration and Travel Series. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Very Good In A Like Jacket Owners With A 3Cm Closeable Tear To The Top Front Edge Name To Fep Pp 128 Index.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. 250pp. Fine in very good or better dust jacket with a crease on the front flap, sunning at the spine and nearby panels, as well as rubbing to the perimeter of the jacket and a small tear. A collection of the Rayford W. Logan lectures presented at Howard University starting in 1970 from various noted history scholars. This volume is Inscribed to Washington, D.C. educator and politician Barbara Lett-Simmons by several contributors, including John Hope Franklin, Benjamin Quarles, Louis R. Harlan, and Joseph E. Harris. An uncommon title, rarely found signed. Signed.…