Ruxton George Frederic (24 results)

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Condition: New. Life in the Far West (Paperback or Softback).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Condition: New.

Leather 16mo 312 pages Book like new condition, full dark blue leather, gilt embossed spine and front board. Tuesday, December 8, 2020 A volume in the Frontier Classics Library series (NRA).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN 0873800982. Hardback. No dustjacket, bound in turquoise cloth with red gild lettering on spine. Facsimile Reprint edition. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs and bumps to edges and corners of covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rebacked, hardcover, in slipcase. Front endpaper missing. 1859. Some staining throughout and some marks on title page. A couple pages torn, but do not affect text. Binding firm. Exterior slightly shelfworn. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.).

1976 Ruxton, George Frederic LIFE IN THE FAR WEST Glorieta, NM: Teh Rio Grande Press, c1972 second printing 1976 235pp 8vo map bound in at front upper edges of textblock wrinkled, else fine bright copy.

235 [4, ads] pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth. First American edition. Howes R-554; Wagner-Camp 173. A bit shaken, with moderate foxing throughout; cloth chipped at head and tail of spine, with fading and wear to cloth.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Octavo. First American edition. Original black blind tooled cloth. Wear to edges, chip loss to bottom third of spine, cover in modern tape repair. Slightly shaken with several gutters cracking, several leaves almost detached. Marginal soiling. A reading copy. Howes R-554; Wagner-Camp 173.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Harper & Brothers, Publishers; New York, 1849. Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good, professional Japanese tissue repair to original blind stamped full blue binding, gilt lettering on spine, some rub/handling marks to boards/spine, some shelf wear, lightly bumped board corners, some sunning to pages, moderate scattered foxing/age spotting throughout, previous owner name in ink on front pastedown else unmarked, binding solid and sturdy, dusty/pulpy text block edges, without Dust wrapper. In a Near Fine, custom blue cloth clamshell case with minimal handling marks and slight fading to spine. A nice copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 235pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Fair/no dust jacket as issued. 1855. Early American printing. Brown boards with gold lettering on spine. Cracked with separation on the first blank page and front endspapers. Loose but still complete and barely holding. Two former owners names and dates ( 1857 & 1910 on front endpapers) A pencil ghost on first blank page on acquiring the book and price paid. Moderate foxing on the pages. Moderate chipping and fraying and edgewear. Soiling to page ends and bumping to corners. Harper & Brothers. A scarce book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Blind-stamped decorative cloth. 235pp + 4pp ads. Signature of owner, Robert A. Bacon, three times, twice in pencil (ffep & t.p.) & once in ink (t.p.). Also ink stamp of Frederick Thompson, Mill Valley, on front paste down. In the middle of the facing endpapers, front & back, is a dark residue. Their location matches the size & very rough shape of the central motif of the cover blind-stamping. There is what appears to be a quite old blind-stamp seal on the lower title page. Moderate general foxing. This title is a classic of the frontier, & was republished in facsimile years ago in the Time-Life Classics series. An internet search leads to the Thompson family of Mill Valley & the Bank of America. Good. Howes 554.

235 [4, ads] pp. 12mo, original cloth. First American edition. Howes R-554. Wagner-Camp 173. Old ink ownership notes on front endsheets; endsheets darkened; foxing throughout; rubbing and wear to the cloth.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 235 pages. Rebound in a 3/4 leather and cloth binding with raised bands and gilt stamping with the original printed front wrapper bound in. Moderate foxing throughout. Very good. (062).

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 235 pp + ads, bound in origina black cloth. Spine is faded and has some old repairs, chip in cloth at rear joint, light scattered foxing. Contemporary ownership inscription on the front free endpaper: "Joseph L. Philbrook, North Hampton, N.H., Jan 19th 1850." Ruxton was the first traveler to write extensively of the mountain men of the Rockies. After having visited Veracruz, Mexico to observe the Mexican-American War in 1846, he traveled north to Santa Fe and then on to Bent's Fort in Colorado. From January through May 1847 he hunted along the front range of Colorado, visited with mountain men and endured an extremely cold winter. Wagner-Camp 173: 1: "This series of sketches first appearsed in Blackwood's Magazine numbers 63 and 64, June-November 1848.Of particular interest is an account of the Walker expedition of trappers to California, which Ruxon may have heard from Mark Head, probably one of the independent trappers accompanying Zenas Leonard." Howes R-552, Graff 3623.

Leather-bound. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Octavo. 7 1/4 in. x 5 in. Rebound in teal calf, wtih gilt lettering to spine. Four raised bands (five compartments) with gilt lettering to compartments two (title) and four (author). Stone-marbled endpapers. Contains rather gruesome blow by blow accounts of white retribution (ambushing, shooting and scalping) against a gathering of Indians preparing to leave on another attacking, scalp-gathering war party. One or two tiny, barely noticeable dents to leather boards. Pages clean, bright and supple.

Condition: Good+. 1849 first British edition. Original brown half leather, with leather spine and corners and marbled paper over boards. Shelf wear and rubbing to the spine edges and corners, with the corners worn through. A few scuffed and rubbed spots to the leather and marbled boards. The hinges are sound and the text block is tight. The pages are clean and tightly bound. And excellently-preserved history of the fur trade and the early American West. ; A beautiful leather the binding, with title in gold on spine.; 312 pages.

hardcover. 235pp. 12mo, modern buckram, lea. label; (foxing). N.Y., 1849. First Amer. edn. Howes R-554. Wagner-Camp 173:1. Sabin 74502.

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextrnrnIn this classic of western Americana, George Frederick Ruxton, who died in St. Louis in 1848 at the youthful age of twenty-seven, brilliantly brings to life the whole heroic age of the Mountain Men. The author, from his intimate a.