Robert W Blew (10 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Westerners Los Angeles Corral, Keepsake 32, March 2001. Paper covers, 93 pp. In very good condition. Brown paper covers have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations Contents include: Foreword; California's Gold Rush Guide Books of 1849: A Sesquicentennial View by Thomas F. Andrew; Mining Implements of The California Gold Rush by Powell Greenland; Letters Home: Mail Delivery During the Gold Rush by Eric A. Neslon; Women in the Gold Rush by Gloria Ricci Lothrop; The Impact of the Gold Rush on Law in California by Gordon Morris Bakken.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Fast shipping with free delivery confirmation. Size: Octavo. Book.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very good. 48p. Centerfold has color photographs of the covers of all indexed volumes. Limited edition of 450 copies. Color plates. (9-3/4"x6-3/4").

Wraps. Condition: Very good. 93p. Includes articles on the California Gold Rush of 1849, specifically on guide books, mining implements, mail delivery, women, and its impact on California law. (9-3/4"x6-3/4").

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fast shipping with free delivery confirmation. Size: Octavo. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Westerners, Los Angeles Corral, 1999. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Softcover in matte tan wraps. One of a limited edition of 450 copies. Book is As New, crisp, clean, and unread. An index to the contents of 20 Brand Books, plus a center section in color of all 20 book jackets. 8vo. 48 pp.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good. VG green pictorial softcover. 1978. Pages all clean/unmarked. Lightest scuffs. Solid. 93 pp. SCARCE title. Photos. "The perceptive German wife and mother who recorded events of her long journey across the Atlantic in 1910 and described the turbulent times of the Mexican Revolution during the rebel takeover of Durango, Mexico in 1911.".…

Third edition (as stated upon title page). 214 pages. Hardcover: H 18.75cm x L 12.5cm. Original purple cloth heavily faded to brown with strong staining/mottling; some wear to board corners; shallow cloth loss at frayed spine ends, spine's gilt stamping quite dulled but still discernable; tears to cloth at heels of front and rear joints. Edges well toned; some toning/foxing as well as light soiling to endpapers; mostly light but occasionally moderate foxing to interior leaves. Binding is firm. Only a good copy but an uncommon book of which OCLC locates copies at ten member institutions of both this Memphis 1875 imprint and a preceding 1874 Nashville imprint. With frontispiece b/w portrait of author with facsimile signature and guard sheet, Preface by the author, and Introduction by R.A. Young. Primary text comprised of thirty-eight chapters titled consecutively as "Letter I" to Letter XXXVIII" with moral essays/stories directed at older youths. Reverend Robert W. Blew was the Memphis, Tennessee-based publisher of the weekly journal "Western Methodist" in which he authored a column "Letters to the Children" under the pseudonym "Uncle Bob" and this book's parabolic missives all appeared previously in that publication. Blew fell victim to the 1878 Memphis yellow fever epidemic as did his wife and all six children with a seventh child having passed in 1868. Boyle & Chapman appears to have been a rather short-lived firm as OCLC cites company imprints from 1871 to 1876.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Extensive guide to fox hunting and the proper care of hounds, delightfully illustrated with 12 colour plates. Seventh edition.In publisher's original red cloth binding with gilt detail.With 12 hand-coloured plates by, among others, prominent artist Henry Alken, best known for his sports illustrations. Includes a frontispiece by equine artist John Frederick Herring Jr. Collated, complete.With the bookplate of John Ponsonby to the front paste down.From the knowledgable Robert T. Vyner and edited by William Charles Arlington Blew, author of Light Horses: Breeds and Management (1894). This work extensively details the particulars of caring for hounds in relation to fox-hunting. Includes chapters on the importance of the correct kennel, diseases and their cures and also on accomplished sportsmen and relevant hunting anecdotes. In original publisher's red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing, resulting in minor loss of cloth noticeable to the joints and spine tips. The occasional mark to both boards. Bookplate of John Ponsonby to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound with the odd unopened page. Pages relatively bright and clean with spotting heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good. Henry Alken; J. F. Herring, Jr.; E. Corbet; W. Smith (illustrator). book.…