Ursula Spier (9 results)
Published by Hesperian (1961) San Francisco 1961
- Hardcover
Seller: Prairie Archives, Springfield, IL, U.S.A.Prairie Archives
Contact seller4-star sellerGood plus or better, light general wear, binding a bit loose. Cloth Worn jacket with tears and chips, large piece missing top back corner.
Published by Hesperian House
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Atlanta
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 12.45
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
More imagesPublished by Hesperian House 1961
- Hardcover
Seller: Quailcottage Books, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.Quailcottage Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. "Economic Interpretations; The Adjustment of Images; The Scene." More short writings on California from as diverse a group as Will Rogers and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Slight pencil mark on bottom edge. Minor tear to DJ near bottom of spine. Hinges and spine excellent, no…mars to boards.
Published by Hesperian House, San Francisco 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Two volumes. Small 4to. Green cloth, pictorial dust jackets. xxii, 521pp; xviii, 564pp. Map endpapers. Near fine/very good. First edition of this large anthology.
Published by San Francisco, Hesperian House, 1961 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerSan Francisco, Hesperian House, 1961, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Two volumes, map endpapers, it mentions Steinbeck and his The Grapes of Wrath, page 6, includes a brief Steinbeck biography and his short story, Johnny Bear, pages 163-183, Goldstone & Payne B118, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Jack London, Georg…e Sterling, Ina Coolbrith, Frank Norris, Mary Austin, James M. Cain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Fante, Robinson Jeffers, William Saroyan, Jack Kerouac, and others. Near fine.
Language: English
Published by Hesperian House, San Francisco 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Springer Books, Sequim, WA, U.S.A.Springer Books
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Green cloth boards in mylar protected dust jackets. Map on end papers. Indexes. Volume I has 521 pages and Volume II has 564 pages. Very light shelf wear to books and jackets. FINE in FINE dust jacket.
Published by Hesperian House 1961
- Hardcover
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.Books From California
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good.
Published by Heritage House, San Francisco, CA 1961
- Hardcover
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Russian Hill Bookstore
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 46.47
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2 Volume Set, 8vo. Out of Print. Jackets unclipped. Edited by Robert Pearsall and Ursula Spier Erickson. Volume I: The Indians, Two Spanish Rosaries, The Rough & Ready Epoch, Culture A-Coming, Machines. Volume II: Economic Interpretations, The Adjustment of Image…s, The Scene. Shelfwear to DJs: light scuffing along edges and covers, light spine fade, a few small tears alon edges, small tear on Volume II near bottom edge of spine. DJs in mylar. Both volumes are tightly bound with clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volumes are in Very Good condition.
More imagesPublished by Hesperian House, San Francisco 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Near Fine(+). First Edition. Two quarto volumes in yellow and pale green pictorial jackets; 564, 521pp: maps; 24 cm. Maps to endpapers. Perhaps the most interesting and broad-reaching anthologies of California writing. "In this unique anthology, for the first time the whole restless and colorful carnival of… California writings is presented, from moody Indian legends to upbeat poems like Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 'they were putting up the statue.' . with selections from . the Diegueno, the Yokuts, the Shoshonean Indians, who sing of the seasons." Dust jacketContents: Volume I: Part I. The Indians. Part II. Two Spanish rosaries. Part III. The rough and ready epoch. Part IV. Culture a'coming. Part V. Machines. Volume II: Part VI. Economic interpretations. Part VII. The adjustment of images. Part VIII. The scene. Volume I: Part 1, the Indians: Creation with serpent / The Diegueno. The Coast Range and the Sierras / Dancing song for a Yokut Wedding / The Yokuts. Sacramento Valley Drainage / The Maidu. Coyote's gift of Light / The Gallinomero. Girl into Woman / The Mohave Shoshones. Coyote's Daughter's Husband / The Karok. Girl and Coyote in Flood Time / The Chamahuevi. The Ambition of a Wife / The Yaudanchi Yokuts. Why the Authority is Divided / The Washoe. Rise and Fall of the Prairie Falcon / The Gabrielano. Cruelty in a Marriage / The Luiseno Shoshones. Harvesting Song / The Shoshones. The Chief of the Dead / The Tachi and Miwoks. Part II, Two Spanish Rosaries: The Santa Barbara Coast / Juan Crespi. Francisco Garces, O.F.M. / Pedro Font. A Few Fathers are Complaining Somewhat / Junipero Serra. Moment on a Journey / Junipero Serra. The Legend of the China Poblana / The Legend of La Llorona / Deeds of Senor Juan Urdemales / O Blanca Virgen / Anonymous. A Bell of San Gabriel / James Steele. Your Excellency Perhaps May Laugh / Nicolai P. Resanov. California Sport, and A Theme to Contemplate / Zenas Leonard. The Ballad of Ramon Castillo / The Ballad of Jesus Cadenas / Adelita / Anonymous. The Excellence of its Climate / Richard Henry Dana. Meanwhiile in Washington / Four Presidents. "Doctor" Marsh and "Captain" Sutter / John Bidwell. Part III, The Rough and Ready Epoch: The Saints Can Be Supported There / Anonymous. The California Tragedy / J. Quinn Thornton. Where to go in the Gold Country / Anonymous. The best bad things / H.R. Helper. The end of a journal / George W.B. Evans. Doctor Crane's swan song / John B. Crane. El Canelo / California / Bayard Taylor. Cow counties clippings / Two editors. Sandy Ago- a soliloquy / Melancholy accident-death of a young man / "John Phoenix". Secession of the sunny South / Conventioneers. The ballad of Joaquin Murietta / The real Claifornia bank robbers / The California Stage Company / Anonymous. Stay East, young man / Horace Greeley. Horace Greeley's ride / Horace Greeley, Artemus Ward and Samuel Clemens. Twenty-four years after / Richard Henry Dana. Confederacy and the Comstock Lode / Asbury Harpending. The Copperhead's Thanksgiving / Visalia Expositor. Evening / Edward Pollock. Up and down California / William H. Brewer. California country ball / Anonymous. The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens. Bells of San Gabriel / Charles Warren Stoddard. Field-notes / Clarence King. Part IV, Culture a'coming: What the engines said / Bret Harte. From a passage to India / Walt Whitman. Junction of the two roads / The Alta Californian. The Heathen Chinee / The Society upon the Stanislaus / Dickens in Camp / What the Bullet Sang / The Angelus / San Francisco from the Sea / A Secret of Telegraph Hill (Novella) / Fate / Bret Harte. My New Year's Guests / Rollin M. Daggett. A Song of Later Comers / Anonymous. Chinatown and Women's Country / Orso / Henry Sienkiewicz. Three Larceny Lyrics / Black Bart Bolton. Industries and Indians of South California / Helen Hunt Jackson. The Gringo Nation / Horace Bell. The Bandit Sontag / Eva Evans and One Unknown. Eleven Railroad Spikes / Various Hands. The Old Pacific Capital / Rob.
