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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition. Foreword by Richard G. Cleland. 16 pp. photographs and illustrations. Biography of Major Horace Bell (1830-1918) The dust-jacket is worn with pieces missing. This is the biography of Major Horace Bell, author of Reminiscences of a Ranger and On the Old West Coast.Harrison has followed Bell's youth in Indiana through his perilous Gold Rush trip to California; driving a pack train in wild mining country, fighting as a filibuster in Nicaragua, adventures in Mexico; escape from death when riding as a scout for the Federal Army in Louisiana and his eventful life in Los Angeles, where he started the "Porcupine," newspaper and kept the town going in the 1880s, See Adams: Six-Guns, No. 937. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xvi, 307 p. w/illus., notes & sources, index. An attractive book by well respected small Californian press, coverign the colorful life of Bell (1830 - 1918), covering his youth in Indiana, Gold Rush adventures, military service as a founding member of the Los Angeles Rangers militia, in Mexico and Nicaragua, and later in the US Civil War as a Federal scout. He was a mining pack train driver, and finally a newspaperman running the popular and at times scandalous PORCUPINE newspaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 22 pages, illustrated. An original article from the The American Review of Reviews, 1892. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Review of Reviews; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., xv-+307 pp., plates, index, dj, vg+ 6-Guns #937 account, gold rush, with Walker in Niaragua, Murieta, Civil War service, etc.

; 307 pp.; DJ; F/VG; Major Horace Bell was an early California lawman and active in political events. This biography includes his gold rush crossing, action in Nicaragua as a filibuster and army scout in the Civil War. The jacket is soiled. . Six-Guns=937 Rocq=2955. [kwA_ (Ca) / california calif. sacramento san francisco sf s.f. los angeles oakland yuba city mendocino berkeley stanford carmel san jose san joaquin san diego humboldt alcatraz coalinga carmel catalina / ].

Fine in partially darkened dust jacket. 1st edition. Binding is Cloth.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Tight and unmarked slender trade paperback illustrated throughout. Looks unread but shows foxing to rear cover.A45 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Fine in near very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Library binding, with several ink stamps inside, light 2 inch stain on spine, corners a bit rubbed, endpapers toned. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1914 Hard Cover. 960 pp. A collection of numerous articles on current political and social events, along with letters to the editor, music and drama reviews, books of the month and book review sections, etc. This volume for discussion of women's suffrage, anti-trust legislation, and the United States' relationship with Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.

Condition: New. Editor(s): Lardner, Benjamin V.; Pennelton, Harrison R. Num Pages: 268 pages, b/w photos & tables. BIC Classification: MJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 186 x 21. Weight in Grams: 798. . 2009. . . . .

Second edition (originally published 1892). Text divided into Part I and Part II with sectional pagination; collates as [half-tile], [title], [8], 15-32, [b/w plate], 33-64, [b/w plate], 65-84, [b/w plate], [6], 7-16, [b/w plate], 17-32, [b/w plate], 33-38, [b/w plate], 39-80, [b/w plate], 81-101, [1], [b/w plate]. Hardcover: H 25.75cm x 20.5cm. No dust jacket present. White cloth soiled and foxed with surface abrasions; front board's gilt lettering remains reasonably bright (no spine lettering). Toning/foxing to text block edges and endpapers; occasional fingerprint soiling to interior leaves which otherwise mostly remain clean. Binding is firm. Edition statement on page [5] "The second edition . . . has been published under the direction of Mrs. George L. Dunlap, Chairman of the Children's Building Committee, of the Board of Lady Managers, and the proceeds of its sale will be used for a Memorial Fund." Explanatory Note by Martha S. Hill dated April 1893 so evidently added for this edition. PART I features facsimile contributions by President Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], L.Q.C. Lamar [Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar], Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling (contribution of "Old Johnny Grundy" on p. 31, 1st sequence), Edward Everett Hale, George W. Cable [George Washington Cable], Sarah Orne Jewett, Eugene Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes, A.C. Swinburne [Algernon Charles Swinburne], Julia Ward Howe, Richard Harding Davis, P. Tschaikowsky [Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky], George Meredith, et al. PART II features facsimile contributions by President Clevland [Stephen Grover Cleveland], Mrs. Grover Cleveland, William D. Howells, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Emile Zola, Mary Mapes Dodge, et al.

Condition: New. Editor(s): Lardner, Benjamin V.; Pennelton, Harrison R. Num Pages: 268 pages, b/w photos & tables. BIC Classification: MJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 186 x 21. Weight in Grams: 798. . 2009. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

1953. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 307pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Biography of Horace Bell. (Western America).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Stitched wraps, covered in U.S. Presidential Election ephemera, dated November 14, 1888, illustrated with woodcut portraits of President Benjamin Harrison and Vice President Levi Morton; 137x120mm; pp. [32], handwritten and illustrated in pencil throughout (some blank pages), by numerous contributors, most of them seemingly very young. A bookplate inside front cover lists Flaura Clay, Minnie Baker, and Rosa Lore, of West Alexandria, Ohio, 1889. Covers a little soiled, and lightly chipped along the edges. Some of the handwriting (in pencil, throughout) a little faded, but legible overall. Full of little verses and sentiments from schoolmates and also including childish drawings of cats; Grover Cleveland; a man with a hat and pipe, captioned"I believe Harrison will make a good president, my old woman is for Cleveland though"; two more drawings of human figures, captioned "hurrah for Harrison"; a drawing of a woman with a donkey and an American flag.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. HARRISON, Benjamin. ACRES OF ASHES: A Story of the Great Jacksonville, Fla., Fire, May 3, 1901. Jacksonville, Fla.: James A. Holloman [Night Editor of the Florida Times-Union and Citizen], 1901.First edition. Original printed wrappers, priced 25 cents. 8vo. Spine chipped with tape repairs. Front wrapper features striking Art Nouveau illustration of winged figure with torch against flames. Ex libris Harry Belknap "Fire Library" of St. Augustine, Florida, with his elaborate pictorial bookplate featuring vintage fire apparatus. Contains folding panoramic frontispiece showing devastating views of the burnt district from elevation, with supplementary views of destroyed landmarks including St. Johns Church, St. James Hotel, and various municipal buildings. Text provides contemporary account of the conflagration that claimed seven lives and resulted in $15,000,000 in property damage (only one-third insured). Period advertisements for local Jacksonville businesses interspersed throughout. A remarkable survival documenting one of the most catastrophic urban fires in Florida history, especially poignant with its firefighting collector association provenance. Condition: Wrappers worn and soiled; spine reinforced with period tape; interior clean, light chipping or creasing, general wear, with panorama intact; good overall. Related subjects: Florida History; Disasters; Urban Fires; Jacksonville; Firefighting; Insurance; Photographic Documentation; City Planning; Reconstruction, Bookplates.

Original Wraps. Condition: Good. First edition of Sketches Of The Civil And Military Services of William Henry Harrison by Charles S. Todd and Benjamin Drake. (illustrator). First Edition. Sixteenmo, x, 168pp. Publisher's original printed wraps, loss to front cover. Missing last free endpaper. Intermittent foxing, bumped corners. An exceptionally scare copy in the original printed wraps from 1840. (Howes T-283) (Sabin 96082). Published at the request of the Cincinnati Harrison society.