Search Results: the log of a forty niner by russ carolyn hale

B.J. Brimmer Company, January 1923. Hardcover. Acceptable/No Jacket. ex linris

Boston:: B. J. Brimmer Company,, 1923.. original cloth-baked boards.. Bookplate on pastedown; slight abrasion to the lower corner of the front board; very good or better.. 8vo,.

B. J. Brimmer Company,, 1923-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Missing. First edition. Ex-library book with pocket and bookplate on inside front board. Minimal markings. Inside pages yellowed. Cover has rubbing and light edge wear.

B. J. Brimmer Co., Boston, 1923. Large 8vo, b&w plates, very good copy in green boards with blue, cloth spine.

Boston: B. J. Brimmer Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. A account of a voyage from Newburyport, Massachusetts to San Francisco by Richard L. Hale and subsequent adventures between 1849 and 1854. Edited from her father's manuscripts by his daughter Carolyn Hale Russ, who has supplied a foreword. With illustrations by Richard Hale, along with plates bearing photographic portraits and journal entries. --- In dark green paper-covered boards backed in navy cloth, with paper labels to cover and spine. --- Despite wear to cover edges, partial loss of spine label, prior owner's signature to front paste-down, and some discoloration to a few leaves volume remains firm and solid.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); 183 pages .

Paperback / softback. New.

Boston: B. J. Brimmer Co., 1923. hardcover. Good. Black and white illustrations. Quarto, (approx. 6 7/8" wide by 9 3/4" tall), blue cloth spine over green boards with paper labels on top cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Top front cover corner bumpped and worn. Goldseekers taking the sea route from the east coast had to travel around Cape Horn of south American to reach California in the days before the Panama Canal. Gold Rush.

Paperback / softback. New.

Boston: B. J. Brimmer Co.. Good. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. General moderate wear & soil, with moderate rubbing cloth at joints, and wear through to boards at lower corner tips; some toning and a bit of thumbing to prelims; foxing to plates, and some facing text pages. "Please return to . . . " note in pencil on front endpaper by Alice R. Snow of Wusthof Beach, Mass. ; Cloth back and paper over boards; spine & cover title labels; illustrated with photographs and other reproductions throughout. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 183 pages; Calling card of Mr. And Mrs. Willis Robert Russ, Jamaica Plain pasted down on front endpaper. Prospectus laid in. Hale's adventures cover a period of more than four years, and take him into the mines again and again. He describes the early methods used to discover gold, and also tells of the incalculable obstacles to prevent the "home banker" from obtaining it. The Log fairly bristles eith thrilling ventures into which… Read More

Cleveland [i.e. Boston], 1923. 183pp. plus plates. Portraits. Cloth backed boards, paper label. Ex-lib. with bookplate and stamps. Good. Adventures of the author's father in California and the Northwest from 1849 to 1854. Published by the Arthur Clark Co. HILL 748. MINTZ 598.

B. J. Brimmer. Hardcover. Good. Good condition with wear and markings. Ex-library.

Boston:B.J. Brimmer Company., 1923. hard cover. Very Good/Good. Boston:B.J. Brimmer Company. 1923. 183pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is worn at the edges and spine, with several small chips and tears, most notably with some small pieces missing at the top of the spine. There is also a length along the front spine edge that has a thin tear several inches long, with another of similar descript on the front flap hinge. Otherwise, the jacket is soiled and age-toned, but in good condition. Book itself shows only some mild shelf-wear. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy with a good dust jacket.

Boston, MA: B. J. Brimmer Company. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Text is clean. Paper covered blue cloth. Cover shows light normal wear. Dust jacket shows chipping at spine ends and tears to front/rear flaps. Date on title page matches copyright page. .

Boston.: B.J. Brimmer Co., 1923.. First edition.. Decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in near fine (light sunning to spine, very light edge wear) dust jacket (in mylar). . Octavo.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

Boston: Brimmer, 1923. First Edition . 1/4 Bnd cloth/paper. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 183pp, b/w drawings, 18 illus. "Journal of a Voyage from Newburyport to San Francisco in the Brig Genl. Worth Commanded by Capt. Samuel Walton. Kept by Richard L. Hale, Newbury, Mass.". Dj with wear along top edge and a few small chips, in Mylar.

Boston, MA: B.J. Brimmer Company, 1923. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 183 pages of text. Hardcover binding in excellent condition, with a small tear and crease to the edge of page 37, and minor browning to the endpapers. The unclipped dustjacket is sunned on the spine, with minor soiling and minor rubbing to the extremities; protected in archival mylar. Contains 19 illustrations. Being a Record of Adventures by Sea and Shore to the California Gold-Fields and the Pacific Northwest, 1849-1854. Illustrated from original sketches by the author. Edited from the original manuscripts; here for the first time published. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

Boston MA: B. J. Brimmer Company, 1923. Numbered. . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Green hardback with brown leather-like spine and corners. Black print on orange paste-on on spine; black print on beige paste-on on front. Top layer on spine is coming loose along the back side - should be easily glued. Bumping and fraying to edges/corners of board. Scuffing to boards; darkening to edges of baords. Boards in Good or better condition. Pages tight but book will lay open (pages detached along inside spine/gutter). Pages clean/unmarked. 183 pages. "This Special Edition of The Log Of A Forty-Niner printed on Georgian hand-made Deckle edged paper, consists of one hundred and fifty-five signed and numbered copies of which this is Number 7 (folowed by author signature" Inside front board is written "15 - " "#98" "155 copies printed". Also on same page is a small ex-libris sticker and a small pasted on page with info about the book. Another POs name is writtern on top of the… Read More

Boston, 1923. 183pp. Three quarter cloth and boards, printed paper labels. Somewhat rubbed, else good. A common book in the regular edition, but this is the first time we have encountered a copy from the edition limited to 155 copies, printed on deckle-edge paper and signed by the author. It chronicles the experiences of her father, George F. Hale, in California in 1849 and the early '50's, and on various voyages up and down the Pacific coast of the Americas. MINTZ 598. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 87. COWAN, p.258. HILL 747. KURUTZ 302.

Boston: B. J. Brimmer Company, 1923. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Rare, limited edition, one of 155 copies signed. 183 pages, b&w illustrations. Green covers w/ light wear to corners, top of spine. Top edge gilt. Soiling to title sticker on spine. Previous owner’s bookplate on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 850767