Dyer john text (3 Ergebnisse)

Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Textblock is very clean and tight. Small light pink stain along spine on front cover, light edge and spine wear, moderately creased bottom front cover corner, light character soiling. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kent Gunnufson (photographs by) (illustrator). Paperback. …

Wraps. Zustand: Very Good+. Author's ink signature on half title page. Very clean and tight. Light wear along the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kent Gunnufson (photographs by) (illustrator). Signed by Author. Paperback.

Soft cover. Zustand: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: None as Issued. First Edition, First Thus. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace wear to illustrated soft cover. Photographic essay of the Colorado Rocky Mountains with text by travelling Methodist clergyman minister and prospector John Lewis Dyer (1812 -), better known as "Father" Dyer. Father Dyer, at the age of 49 and with failing eyesight, walked from Iowa to arrive in Breckenridge, Colorado in 1841. His autobiography, The Snow-shoe Itinerant : An Autobiography of the Rev. John L. Dyer, Familiarly Known as "Father Dyer" of the Colorado Conference, published in 1890, describes this part of the world. Kent Gunnufson photographs Summit County with b/w film, where "the mountains reach into the clouds. the waters are cold and blue; the air is crsp and clean; and the snow is light and deep", and over which Breckenridge reigns as county seat. Fine copy. Kent Gunnufson (Photographer) (illustrator).…