Isbn: 9780803236745 - dreams to dust: a diary of the california gold rush, 1849-1850: diary of the californian gold rush, 1849-50 (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.

hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. Annotated edition. Cloth, d.j., in an acetate cover. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy in hardcover with near fine jacket.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages; Description: xxxi, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Parke, Charles Ross, 1823-1908 --Diaries. Pioneers --West (U.S.) --Diaries. California --United States --Description and travel. Summary: With a high sense of adventure and even higher hope of profit, Dr. Charles Ross Parke joined the gold seekers streaming toward California in the spring of 1849. A resident of Whiteside Country, Illinois, he formed a small company and headed west to the Great Platte River Road. Other forty-niners kept diaries of daily events on the trail, but Dr. Parke's is unusual in its scope and detail. Edited and annotated by James E. Davis and published for the first times, Dreams to Dust: A Diary of the California Gold Rush, 1849-1850 reveals an anthropologist's curiosity about Indians and their culture, a young man's eye for the ladies, a sociologist's sense of the roles people play, a politician's instincts for the art of governance, and a doctor's view of the cholera pandemic along the trail. 1 Kg. …

Annotated edition. Dustjacket slightly shelf worn with small tear on top outer edge of front cover. The book is clean, bright, unmarked and tightly bound. A very nice copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages; Description: xxxi, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Parke, Charles Ross, 1823-1908 --Diaries. Pioneers --West (U.S.) --Diaries. California --United States --Description and travel. Summary: With a high sense of adventure and even higher hope of profit, Dr. Charles Ross Parke joined the gold seekers streaming toward California in the spring of 1849. A resident of Whiteside Country, Illinois, he formed a small company and headed west to the Great Platte River Road. Other forty-niners kept diaries of daily events on the trail, but Dr. Parke's is unusual in its scope and detail. Edited and annotated by James E. Davis and published for the first times, Dreams to Dust: A Diary of the California Gold Rush, 1849-1850 reveals an anthropologist's curiosity about Indians and their culture, a young man's eye for the ladies, a sociologist's sense of the roles people play, a politician's instincts for the art of governance, and a doctor's view of the cholera pandemic along the trail. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. 8vo. [xxxiii] + 280pp. B/w. illustrations. Original boards. Pictorial d/w. with black title patch lettered in white to spine, slightly rubbed to edges. ISBN 0803236743 US$15.

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