Isbn: 9780916617660 - the Autobiography of John Russell Bartlett (7 results)

cloth. 6 x 9 inches. cloth. 256 pages. First edition. John Russell Bartlett, a major American bibliographer and artist of the Southwest, had a remarkably multi-faceted career. He was for a time a bookseller, Chief of the United States Boundary Commission that established the border with Mexico following the Mexican-American War, Secretary of State of Rhode Island for 17 years, and, for many years, John Carter Browns personal librarian. Bartletts Dictionary of Americanisms saw three editions in the nineteenth century, and was again reprinted in 2000. His Personal Narrative about his years on the Boundary commission is a classic document of Western Americana. Jerry Mueller has annotated and amplified Bartletts original memoir, adding 30 illustrations. Printed at Stamperia Valdonega, Arbizzano di Verona, Italy, and bound by Legatoria Zanardi Gropu, Padova, Italy. Designed and composed by Mark Argetsinger, Rochester, New York. Distributed for the John Carter Brown Library. Bartlett, John Russell (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by John Carter Brown Library, 2006. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. No dust jacket.

Condition: Fine. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Bound in publisher's red cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Corner bumped. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page, else unmarked. From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. This edition is derived from the 1854 Personal Narrative of Explorations & Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua. New in shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bright red cloth with gilt title and cameo. No ownership or other markings. Front cover has a small number of very tiny spots along upper 2 inches, else as new. Ships within 24 hours.

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