mckinstry byron (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. very nice copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. INSCRIBED by author and signed 11/14/75. Additional ink note above insc. re gift from. Red cloth lightly edge worn. Dj lightly edge worn, rubbed and bumped. Clean and tight interior.; American Trails Series; 9.6 X 6.6 X 1.7 inches; 401 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. plates, map (illustrator). First edition. 8vo, 401pp., red cloth; cream dj with three nicks at head of spine American Trails Series X. Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. "Diary exceptional on its own account for the thoroughness of overland coverage, penetrating observations of human character and trail geography, and a felicitous literary style. It becomes a classic through interpolations of grandson Bruce, who spent twenty-four seasons retracing every foot of Byron's route - Mattes, 894." Illustrated with 38 images, mostly photographic supplied by the grandson, and a map. This well-done book is engrossing - Mintz, THE TRAIL, 321]. [Not in Wagner-Camp, or Cowan].

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Zustand: New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. photogravures (illustrator). First edition. Small 4to, 401pp., red cloth; clear tape repair to top panel of dj. Inscribed "To my very good friend and / fellow Westerner ." and signed by Bruce L.McKinstry. Laid in is a printed memorial of McKinstry's burial, in 1978. Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. Issued as no. 10 in the American Trails Series. "Diary exceptional on its own account for the thoroughness of overland coverage, penetrating observations of human character and trail geography, and a felicitous literary style. It becomes a classic through interpolations of grandson Bruce, who spent twenty-four seasons retracing every foot of Byron's route - Mattes, 894." [ Townley, THE TRAIL WEST, p.99; "This well-done book is engrossing - Mintz, THE TRAIL, 321].

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. q (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st printing. Full leather with raised bands with gilt title / year of pub on spine. 401pp. Illus. Index. Inscribed (12 line presentation) by the editor and McKinstry descendant to the fine Chicago book binder Ed Lhotka, the author of ABC of Leather Bookbinding, on January 2, 1975. Lhotka died in 2007 at the age of 97. He was a book binder at the great R. R. Donnelley Company in Chicago for nearly 50 years and ". did work for museums and libraries around the country." (Chicago Tribune obit). This copy is fine and elegant, and is bound in red leather with a gold stripe running diagonally across both front and back covers. It represents the trail and features a wagon wheel on both covers. The presentation page appears to be bound in. In the back, also bound in most creatively is the dust jacket of the trade edition. The rear paste down has paper adhering from something that was glued and removed. This is the only "flaw." Laid inside the back cover is a folded US map showing McKinstry's route. Penciled on the recto of the map is "Wagon Trail / Council Bluffs to San Francisco." It does not appear to have been the piece removed from the paste down. The end papers are custom, and affixed to the front free end-paper (fly leaf) is Lhotka's custom bookplate with a drawing showing a hand utilizing a tool on a book spine. This leather copy is slip-cased in red cloth with a printed paper label on the spine of the box. The title is volume X in the Arthur H. Clark Co. American Trail Series. Truly a collector's copy. Signed Association.

McKINSTRY, Byron N. The California Gold Rush Overland Diary of Byron N. McKinstry, 1850-1852, with a Biographical Sketch and Comment on a Modern Tracing of His Overland Travel by His Grandson Bruce L. McKinstry. Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1975. 1st ed. 401pp. Portrait frontis., illus., portraits. Clark & Brunet 180.