Enduring Desert by Edwards E I (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition in near fine shape with no markings and slightest of wear in a lightly used publisher slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hard cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Sleeve inlcuded. Cover boards are in great condition with no visible flaws apart from some light handling wear. Spine is shaken, but binding is secure. Inside is clean, bright, and unmarked.

cloth, slipcase. 4to. cloth, slipcase. xiii, 306 pages. Foreword by Russ Leadabrand. Describes hundreds of reference works and literature which deal with the deserts of Southern California. With a checklist of books containing only incidental reference to the desert regions, and a partial record of journals, diaries, narratives, letters, accounts, etc., of pioneers crossing the Colorado and Mojave deserts. Bumped corner, else near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

Condition: Good. One folded sheet advertising the forthcoming book. This is an advertisement for the book, not the book itself. This item was mailed to Gardiner Johnson.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Quarto. 306pp. A trifle toned on the spine, near fine in slightly soiled, near fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No jacket. Nice, in mildly worn slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 25.5 x 17 cm., xii, 306 pp., two coloedr title pages, index, light tan cloth with black painted spine label and gilt lettering, slip case which is very good with minor bumping to one corner and slight dust damage.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. near fine copy in slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 306 pages; In a near fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, no dust jacket, with slipcase; slipcase is VG, some bumping to edges and dust markings; light wear to edges of boards of book; previous owner's private library sticker on rear paste-down; no internal markings. B373. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Excellent bibliography of books concerning the Californian desert. In VG order throughout. Smart pale green cloth with bright black and gilt titling to spine. Complete with slipcase, this a little toned and worn. 4to. 306pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Enduring Desert: A Descriptive Bibliography, by E I Edwards, Published by The Ward Ritchie Press, 1969. cloth in slipcase, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author. for the student, researcher, librarian, collector,writer with a love of books on the desert and desert places. see my other signed books by the author "very good condition" BX65. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Edwards as follows: "To Everett and Anna Marie | good friends-- | Fellow Bibliographers. | Eddie" and dated 9/27/69, i.e., to Everett and Anna Marie Hager. Also flat signed beneath the title on the half-title page as follows: "E.I. Edwards esq.". LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES. Laid in is the publication announcement, as well as an unopened letter postmarked June 27, 1984 from the A.K. Smiley Public Library addressed to Mrs. Everett Hager with the handwritten notation. "E.I. Edwards obit." written across the top of the envelope. 4to. (27 cm.) xiii, 306p. Index. Tan cloth with the title in gilt on a black field on the spine. No noticeable wear to extremities, covers clean and bright, gilt bright, else fine with no internal markings. Box ever so slightly shelfworn. Elza Ivan "Eddie" Edwards (1897-1984) was born in Idaho in 1897. Later he moved to California where he opened an accounting advisory service for medical offices. Edwards? hobby was Death Valley history and he was the author of several books including The Valley Whose Name is Death, Desert Voices: A Descriptive Bibliography (1958), and The Enduring Desert. He was an active member of the Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners and served as Sheriff in 1966. In 1964, he and his wife, Beryl, retired and moved to Yucca Valley, California. Edwards died in 1984. [from the finding aid to his papers] This is the descriptive bibliography of titles about the American dessert. Signed by Author(s).

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine slip case. As new. 306 pps.

Full Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full beige cloth with black label and gilt lettering on the spine, small red ink pen mark to the front cover, price sticker residue on the front endpaper. xiii + 306pp. In original slipcase. The best bibliography on the California desert, with numerous annotated entries. Box is scuffed and soiled with light wear at the extremities. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD book in a FAIR PLUS slipcase. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.

First Edition. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 306; fine in original tan cloth, spine stamped in gilt and black. Foreword by Russ Leadabrand.

First edition. Xiii, [1], 306 pp. Publisher's light beige cloth with black spine label lettered in gilt. Original slipcase. With bookplate of the prestigious Copley Library and signed by a member of the Copely family (and with their bookplate). Very good.

Hard cover. Condition: Near fine. First edition. 10 1/4'' X 7 1/4''. 306pp. with index. Signed by Edwards and Leadabrand. Minor spot on spine. Slipcase.

EDWARDS, E. I. The Enduring Desert: A Descriptive Bibliography. Original cloth, publisher's slipcase. [N.P.]: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1969. 4to. First edition. Fine.

Condition: Slipcase toned, else fine. E. I. Edwards. The Enduring Desert: A Descriptive Bibliography. Los Angeles: 1969. First edition. Quarto. 306pp. Publisher's tan cloth, spine lettered in black and gilt, with card slipcase. .