Introduction Ward Ritchie (12 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Approx. 6 1/8" wide by 8 7/8". Title is given as it appears on the title page. On the front cover the wording is merely Moxon, Carey S. Bliss. ; 33 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover copy in fine condition. No DJ as issued. Includes slipcase in very good condition with faint age toning to edges and light rubbing.

Cloth/Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Slipcase. First Edition Thus. One of 1000 copies of a limited edition reproduction with additions. Book is near fine- black cloth spine faded to gray, no wear or marks. Slipcase lightly used, with fading and slight discoloring but no frays or splits.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No Jacket. 131p. Cover spine sunned, slipcase edges sunned. One thousand copies printed in Los Angeles, California, October 1963. Reproduced in facsimile. (9-1/4"x6").

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG+. Light wear to slipcase. Book is in excellent condition with minimal wear. Interior is clean. No writing or markings of any kind.

Hardcover. 131p., introduction, appendix, printed on multi-colored paperstocks as per the original, illustrated with photos and a folding map of the old portion of LA, very good copy in cloth-backed papered boards gilt. Lacks the slipcase that accompanied this reprint. An attractive copy: perfectly sound, clean and (except for a dealer's penciled codes to front free endpaper) unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited First Edition. One of 1000 copies printed. Fading to spine and edges of slipcase, otherwise a fine copy in a fine slipcase. No previous owner markings or bookplate. Slipcase has no wear except the fading. A reproduction of the original 1872 directory. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Fine. First Edition. 1000 copies for trade edition. x, 156 pages; illustrations (title pages); indexes; bound in black cloth with paper label on the spine, impression design on the front cover. Introduction by Lawrence C. Powell. Contains: The early years; Anderson & Ritchie; War and post War years; Selective Checklist, 1932-1960; Books printed before 1932; books designed for other presses; bibliography. Fine clean copy.

Hard Cover with Slipcase. Condition: Like New. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Hardcover with dark-blue leather spine with red title panel and gilt lettering on spine; boards covered in blue-weave cloth; all edges lightly speckled with blue paint; limited edition 914/1500; signed by Shore and Ritchie. Book in like-new condition; still with original glassine wrapper. Slipcase in very good plus condition with a little scuffing and spotting. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed by Illustrator(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. Limited edition. 1/1200 (first volume); 1/1500 (the next two volumes). [12], 120, [10], 121-269, [8], 270-439pp. Original full cloth with gold lettering on spines. Books housed in original decorative paper covered slipcases. Illustrated title-pages. Each volume contains the original printed bookmark issued by the publisher. Exquisite limited edition of a work originally printed in 1881 and portraying pioneer life as it then existed, not only among the American pioneers, but also the California Spaniards. Some minor age-wear on slipcases with slight rubbing along edges. Slipcases in overall good to good+, binding and interior in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase. 1st Edition. Xii, 170 Pp. Tan Cloth. First Edition. One Of 100 Of A Special Signed, Limited Edition, Signed By Apostol And Ward Ritchie On The Colophon. Fine In Fine Slipcase. [There Was Also A Much Shorter Softcover Trade Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Privately Printed Limited Edition. Three uniform hardcover volumes, each in its own slipcase. No dust jackets. Books are in fine, unread condition, with title bright in gilt on spine. Slipcases are near fine with a whisper of wear at corners. Beautifully designed set lovingly produced by the Advertisers Composition Company as Christmas presents for their employees in three subsequent years. Each book has an illustrated bookmark laid in. Reminiscences of a Ranger (1881) includes anecdotes of Bell's experiences as a Los Angeles Ranger pursuing Joaquin Murietta in 1853, a soldier of fortune in Latin America, a Union officer in the Civil War, and a Los Angeles newspaper editor. Throughout, he gives special attention to the fate of Hispanic Californians and Native Americans under the United States regime. 8vo. 439 pages total.