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Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Green cloth decorative boards, small stain on front and rear cover, spine sunned. Previous owners name on half title page , title page, plus a gift inscription in Norwegian ? from same owner. 6 full page color illustrations. Contents clean and tight. PayPal accepted please inquire.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No wear to the binding. No slope, no twist, no distortion from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No musty odor. No water stains. No soiling. No sun fading. No dust jacket. The color pastedown on the front cover shows no scuffs, no scratches.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good++. No Jacket. No Printing Info Available. Light edgewear, top spine end worn. No stamps or writing. 250 pages, color paste down on front cover. Inside covers & endpapers darkened, light foxing. Size: 9 3/4" X 7 1/2". 6 Color Plates (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover brown boards with gilt lettering on the spine and illustrated cover with illustrated endpapers. Includes color and b/w illustrations, 512 pages. No DJ as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 278 Pages With Acknowledgments In Rear; 3 Parts; Numerous B/W Illustrations; 6 Full Page Color Paintings Including Frontispiece, "Yankee Merchantmen Carried The Name Of Salem." Pages Tight; Slightly Yellowed With Minor Foxing On Some Margins; No Markings; End Pages Have Scenes Of Ships On Ocean; Birds And Clouds. Faded Green Hard Covers With Lettering And Illustrations On Front Cover And Spine. Extensive Darkened And Soiled Areas On Spine And Cover Edges; Some Rubbing And Scuffing; Spine Ends And Corners Show Fraying And Wear; Corners Bumped. Part Headings Are: Merchantmen And Traders- Iron Men And Wooden Ships; Stout Hearted Men- The Age Of Blood And Gold; Hunters Of The Deep-The Quest For Fish And Oil; Each Section Has Several Stories By Various Authors Including: Irvin Anthony; Mary Barney; Washington Irving; Ralph Paine; Charles Nordhoff; Frank Stockton; Arthur Hunt Chute; George Dow; Herman Melville; Jack London; William Davis; Captain John D Whidden, Etc. Very Rare Vintage Copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Early reprint of a collection of short works about the West originally published in 1928 under the title "Frontier Days". Large 8vo hardcover in NO dust jacket. Tan boards, black lettering and on the upper board, a paste-down reproduction of the color frontispiece. Lower board has a symbol in the lower fore-edge corner. These boards have some mild soiling and are lightly rubbed. Except as noted, the contents are clean and include pictorial endpapers (with a small bookseller stamp on the rear pastedown), a description of the book (from the absent dust jacket (?)) pasted on the end paper opposite the fly-title page, a color frontispiece, 274 pp + five additional full-page color illustrations. NOT an ex-library copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd printingl brown c w/pictorial inset on front,gilt titles, lite wear at extremities; illustrated end papers; 512 clean, unmarked pages. Color Plates; b&w Drawings,engravings (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. green pictorial c; some sunning of spine; illustrated end papers; 279 clean, unmarked pages. 6 full page color illustrations plus numerous black and white Illustrations (illustrator).

Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Spine and pages toning, frontispiece has 2 small creases, tiny bit of soiling, rubbing to edges of covers w/couple tiny tears; illustrated; 278 pages.

Good plus or better, light general wear, corners bumped. Cloth Lightly bug-chewed. Worn, soiled jacket with tears and chips. Pages browned. Friday, June 27, 2014 Prev owner's name on front fly.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. black cloth cover with decoration in gilt, white, and blue, cover shows minor wear. illustrated endpapers. gift inscription in prelims. pages tanned and clean.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. 250 pgs., c 1928 by Macrae -Smith Co. - this edition circa late 1930's-1940's, Light brown cloth with indian/cowboy pictorial label, illus.endpapers, neat christmas gift inscription date Dec. 25, 1940, contents lightly toned with 5 color illus.(of which the indian on pg.142 is in duplicate!-making total of 6 color illus.) and some b/w drawings, binding is tight.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (frontier and pioneer life, west, united states ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Copyright 1949 by The American Musicolog. 58 + pp. Vol. II, Summer 1949, No. 2 issue only! A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. …

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 235 pages, illustrated throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and tear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853401.

Good to very good condition. Gift inscription. Decorative green cloth binding. Spine cloth is faded and spotted. Spine tips are worn. Cover corners are rubbed. Mild damp stain at bottom edge of back cover. 278 pages plus six color plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, Schoonover, and others. Includes chapters by Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Jack London, J.F. Cooper. Beautiful Hardcover book in NEAR FINE PLUS condition (three pencil point size dots on front edge,one inch wrinkle at top of spine which is slightly faded). .No DJ. Shelf 1097 .Bright and clean.Text clean and very bright; book tight. Gilt lettering and designs.No marks, underlining or notes. Not a book club (BC)copy. No previous owner name, not ex library, not a remainder. Wyeth,Schoonover,et al. (illustrator).…

Dust Jacket ONLY. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket ONLY Good An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean with tears, wrinkles and chips Some stains and rubbing Protected by mylar sleeve Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

H.b. Condition: Good Condition. 278 pgs. Pictorial, colored endpapers; colored frontispiece plus five full-page colored plates of ships, sailoring & seafaring, plus a remarkable number of b&w sketches & etchings throughout. Includes accounts of old China trade, Icebound Whalers at Point Barrow, Gold ships to California; etc. Accounts are offered by such notable authors as Richard Henry Dana; Washington Irving; Charles Nordhoff; Capt. John D. Whidden; Herman Melville; Jack London, among others. Green boards, attractively illustrated on front board, have moderate shelf wear, with a bit of bumping to corners and spine, else serviceable & still good. Spin is sunned/faded badly, spotted, and well worn but still holding; interior of volume is clean except for three ink stains to pgs. 80 & 81, mostly in the margins, except for two stains in text area. Overall cond. is good. Size: 7 1/2: x 9 3/4".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Stated First Edition decorated American trade binding with 11 full page color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth, Charles Hargens, Frank E. Schoonover and more blue chip illustrators. Black and white drawings by Richard H. Rodgers, Clayton E. Jenkins, and others. Black silk cloth boards with blue, gold and green decoration on cover (ships at sea), gold lettering on cover and spine. Scratch to front board; two small spots of wear at top spine edge, slight dulling to spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Decorated endpapers; small previous owner name on front and rear of front free endpaper. Pages and edges are clean. 506 pages. A beautiful book. N. C. Wyeth, (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This 7.50 x 10.00, 512 page book is a colorful and profusely decorated example of 1920's book design. The front cover of brown cloth is decorated with a gold, orange, and blue illustration of frontier imagery and the title lettering is in gilt. The spine title is also in gold with a shield denoting the romance of America's History. The born cloth cover itself is in very good or better condition with some edge wear but the corners are still intact. There is a strip of whitish offset to the back cloth cover from some unknown material. The interior is colorful with the end papers showing a action scene from the old west, indians attacking a stagecoach. There is a one-and-a-half by four inch piece of paper glued to the ffep with penciled notation that this book once belonged to John Brewer in his private library. The interior text really has no condition issues to mention, the twelve full color plates are all present and are done by several period artists. There are numerous black-and-white etchings and decorations throughout. Overall this book is a very nice read featuring short stories by many authors including a number of very well-known writers. 512 pages.…

Pictorial Cloth. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Philadelphia, PA: Macrae-Smith Company. G/No Dustjacket. (1928). . Pictorial Cloth. Sm 4to., 512 pp., cover rubbed, bumped, frayed, hinges broken & seperating, page toning . Color Plates, B&W Illus. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This book is bound in bright green boards with bright red letters on the spine & front cover + bright sailing ships on the edges of the front cover. There is very light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. Decorative endpapers. There is light foxing on the back of the 1/2 title page, 2nd page & on the edge of the title page. The contents are clean, bright & unmarked, the binding is tight. Five of five full-page colour illustration. The white pictorial dust jacket has small chips off the spine tips & cover corners with wear along the edges of the spine + 1 small hole in the upper spine. $1.00 on the flap.…

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 506 pages, illustrated throughout in color and black & white. Gilt titles and decorations on black cloth board, minor edge wear and rubbing, otherwise, very clean and bright copy. Record # 354157.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good+/no DJ. A solid copy with mildly bumped corners and fading to gilt on spine. An occasional smudge to text, but overall contents in very nice shape - bright and with no evidence of foxing. Color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, Schoonover, and others. Includes chapters by Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Jack London, J.F. Cooper, etal.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. 1928 Edition. Many black and white drawings and six full page color plates. Various authors write of Pioneers, Indians, and an article Pike's Peak or Bust by Edwin L. Sabin. Color plate on front depicting a cowboy trading wares with an Indian. Brown cloth hardback. 250 pages. 7 3/4 in. X 9 3/4/ in. Corners lightly bumped. No dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine condition. ; 7 3/4 in. x 9 3/4 in.…

Second printing. Indians, cowboys, bad men, traders, homesteaders, scouts, trappers, soldiers, pioneers and gold-seekers march in an almost endless procession across the pages of this book. Their stories have been told by the men who knew them best - Bret Harte, Mark Twain, "Buffalo Bill", Hamlin Garland, George Bird Grinnell, and many others. There are many stories; Cowboy ballads, poems, biographical sketches and articles of a practical nature. Over 500 pp. brimming with vivid action and glorious adventure, and dealing with the most glamorous period in America's history. A tight, clean, beautiful copy. Only a little evidence of damp stain that may have affected the jacket and cover in the bottom right front corner. Looks like a few small white marks on cover and is not even visible on the jacket. Very good dust jacket with one inch and a half closed tear on back panel. Thick 4to. 9-3/4 x 7-3/4. Pictorial brown cloth stamped in gold orange and sky blue. Beautiful, pictorial endpapers printed in orange and brown. 12 illustrations in full color by Frank E. Schoonover, Manning DeV. Lee, Charles Hargens and Richard H. Rogers. (illustrator).…

(1928). (Small 4to) Very good, no dust jacket. 512pp. Decorated brown cloth. Illustrated endpapers, 12 color plates, illustrations. Slight edgewear along the top of the spine. (Western America, Cowboys, Frontier, Indians of N.A., Pioneer Life).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition stated. Fine, if not very fine hardback. No dust jacket.