Pourade Richard Editor (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fine with no markings or wear in a very good jacket but has some obvious light scratching on back and some very edge wear. A vintage 3rd printing in synthetic blue fabric with embossed design. Indexed. Professional academics.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. First Edition. Signed & Inscribed By Author. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrated By The Author (illustrator). Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. ix, 166pp, index, bibliography, maps, bw &col ills, pictorial endpapers. Or gray cloth in jacket. Jacket slightly edgeworn with 2 tears, creases and minor rubbing. Examines the appearance and presence of early man and early cultures in California's southwest especially around San Diego. Includes discoveries in Buchanan Canyon and the Yuha desert and more to support the presence of early cultures in the San Diego area before the last great Ice Age. Size: 4to. Illustrated By The Author (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light brown cloth boards in illustrated dust jacket and slipcase. #415/1973 signed copies printed. Photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography and index. 144 pages. FINE in VERY GOOD dust jacket in NEAR FINE slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Large 8vo. Pp. 247. Contains notes on contributors. Illustrated with b&w illustrations and tipped in color illustrations by Bert Procter. Index. Frontispiece (a Bert Procter painting reproduction) tipped in. Brown leatherette stamped with gilt design on front board and gilt lettering on spine. A particularly pleasing copy, with no detracting qualities whatsoever. Other contributors include , Kenneth M. Johnson, Dan L. Thrapp, Allen Willett, Burt Procter, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, John W. Robinson, Jo Beth Jacobs, and Abraham Hoffman. Articles cover California's Spanish heritage, Mara -- the desert oasis of Twentynine Palms, the day the transcontinental railroad came to Los Angeles, the constitutional convention of 1878 - 1879, Tom Cover, an untold story of three Southern CA heroines, Sunkist's southland, the Owens Valley water controversy, and Frederick Jackson Turner in Southern California. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a very good (light shelf wear) cloth covered slipcase.

Hardcover. xiv, 168 p. illus. (part col. ), col. maps, ports. 29 cm. Sources. Index "A Copley book, commissiond by James S. Copley" From Wikipedia: "John James Peck (January 4, 1821-April 21, 1878) was a United States soldier who fought in the Mexican-American War and American Civil War. Peck was born on January 4, 1821 in Manlius, New York. His father, John W. Peck, who had served in the War of 1812, was among the earliest and most active settlers of Onondaga County.Peck entered the United States Military Academy at age 18 and graduated eighth from a class of 39 on July 1, 1843 along with Ulysses S. Grant and many other soon to be famous military officers. He served in the artillery as a second lieutenant and was stationed in New York until 1845. In 1846 he was promoted second lieutenant and fought in Zachary Taylor's Army of Occupation during the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma and Monterrey. He then joined Winfield Scott's army and landed at Vera Cruz and fought in all the battles of Scott's campaign culminating in the fall of Mexico City. He was brevetted captain for gallantry and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco and again brevetted to major for his services at the battle of Molino del Rey and received the praise of his division commander, William J. Worth. Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War he was said to have been an intimate friend of Generals Lee, Johnston and Beauregard. Returning to the U.S. after the war he served in the quartermasters department and against the Apache Indians on the frontier. Peck resigned from the army on March 1, 1853 and became the treasurer of a railroad project from New York to Syracuse, New York. In 1856 he stood as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Onondaga district. At the time of Peck's reenlistment and appointment as Brigadier General he held the position of cashier at the Burnett Bank of Syracuse of which he was one of the founding members. Peck also served as president of the Syracuse board of education, which position he continued to hold while on active service and only resigned in 1862. The outbreak of the Civil War brought Peck back into the army. He accepted a commission as brigadier general of volunteers on August 9, 1861. He was given command of a brigade defending Chain Bridge and the Northern defenses of Washington at Tennallytown and soon after joined George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac in Virginia. He commanded the 3rd Brigade, (55th NY, 62d NY, 93d Pa, 98th Pa & 102Pa) Couch's 1st Division, Keyes' IV Corps during the Peninsula Campaign. He served in the siege of Yorktown, and distinguished himself in the battles of Williamsburg and Fair Oaks. He was placed in command of the 2nd Division, IV Corps during the Seven Days Battles where he again distinguished himself. On July 4, 1862 he was promoted to major general of volunteers for his services in the Battle of Malvern Hill. When McClellan's forces began evacuating the peninsula, Peck was left in command of a Union garrison stationed at Yorktown. In September he was given command of all Union troops in Virginia south of the James River. In 1863 during James Longstreet's Tidewater Campaign the attention of both armies in southern Virginia turned to the city of Suffolk. Suffolk guarded the western land approaches to the naval yards at Portsmouth and Norfolk which were in Union control. Peck took command of a force designated the Suffolk Detachment, VII Corps. This force would eventually amount to three divisions commanded by Michael Corcoran, George W. Getty and George H. Gordon. Peck received a captured message informing him of the Confederate intentions against Suffolk with enough time to take appropriate measures. Longstreet's besiegers gained some initial advantages during the siege of Suffolk at the battle of Norfleet House cutting off the Union supply route. Yet Peck mounted a counter offensive and retook the lost positions in the battle of Hill's Point. The Confederates lift. Phillips, John, and Nebel, Carl, and Egerton, Dani (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have very light wear. edges of pages have very light wear. front free end paper has stamps. mylar-covered dust jacket is brittle, has some chipping and several tears but looks pretty good in the mylar. Crosby, Joanne Haskell (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 208pp, with 56 illustrations. Special edition number 301 .A Copley Book. Also signed by Sponser -James S. Copley. Bound in beige cloth. Almost mint. Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. xii, 276pp, with 114 illustrations.Special edition number 301. Volume four of a Series on the Historic Birthplace of Californa. Signed and commissioned by James S. Copley. Almost mint. Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: V.g. First Edition. xiv, 170pp with 50 illustrations.Special Edition no. 301. A Copley Book. Foreword and Commentary by Richard F. Pourade. Commissioned and signed by James S. Copley. The descriptive letters of Lieutenant John James Peck, a United States soldier in the conflict with Mexico, and the colour lithographs of Mexico by John Phillips, Carl Nebel, Daniel Thomas Egerton, Casimiro Castro, and Captain D.P.Whiting. Fine copy, a little sunning to slip-case. Signed by Editor.…