Downie major william (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 412 pages, navy boards with gilt stamping. The covers show some slight discoloration. The contents are bright and complete. Very Good in a slightly soiled and edge chipped dust jacket.

New edition. 8vo. [xii] + 412pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece and illustrations. Original blue cloth. Gold d/w. lettered in white, rubbed to edges. ISBN 0910118221 US$22.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 410 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.93 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 407 pp. Professionally rebound hardcover in three-quarter leather with new gilt type & rules & decorative green-&-gold decorated endpapers laid in. End papers are vibrant with light bleeding of leather dye on edges (green color). Pebbled cloth boards with stamped "Hunting for Gold" appears to have been restored from the original. Original text block is complete & has been bound in; original frontispiece has edge wear & light staining & has been reinforced with a second piece of paper. Boards in excellent condition with bright stamped gilt on front & spine with solid binding, minimal wear & rubbing. Pages are near fine with light wear on title page & copyright page spreads, balance of pages are bright & clean, light toning, no marks. Black & white images throughout. A beautifully preserved, finely rebound copy of a scarce piece of Western Americana & California Gold Rush history. See photos, ships same day or next day. …

Facsimile Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's deep blue cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 412pp. A very handsome copy in clean. bright cloth, in a gold dustjacket with some light wear to extremities, rubbing at the spine ends, and a single, straight scratch running down the front panel. A very good copy. Downie, originally born in Scotland, was a prominent figure of the mid-19th century gold rushes in California and British Columbia, pioneering several new routes to the goldfields on the Fraser River, and claiming to be one of the first men to find gold in 1849 in Sierra County, CA, before the settlement there was re-christened Downieville. The true first, ghost written with Downie's input by Waage, was published in 1893.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 407 p. 29 cm. Frontispiece portrait and 45 other b&w plates as well as numerous in-text line drawings. Green cloth with gold print. Bevelled edges, blank impressing. Corners bumped, spine ends softened, slight edge wear, and spine lean. Tape-repaired front endpapers and frontispiece, former owner's label and ink signature. William Downie joined the California Gold Rush of 1849 and, having acquired the gold fever, spent the next 50 years hunting for it in various parts of the wild west. Hunting For Gold is Downie's personal memoir of his treasure-seeking adventures as far north as Alaska and as far south as Panama. Written in the 1890s, when he was in his eighties, his account is of interest for anyone inspired by the Gold Rush and the areas in and around Downieville, California, named after William himself.…

First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated from photographs and wood engravings, plates, portraits. Howes D-448 ("aa"): "Unassuming but valuable reminiscences of an inveterate miner and pioneer." Graff 1143. Soliday II, 357: "The author was the first white man to cross from the coast to the Frazer River. His narrative is of the kind to furnish the novelist with first hand material. It deserves a place among the best of pacific Coast pioneer works." Streeter sale 3016: "Major Downie's recollections of the first two eventful years of prospecting and mining on the Yuba belong to the contemporary accounts of this period." Wheat Gold Rush 6. Smith 1023. Very good. Original black pebbled cloth boards with leather corners, rebacked in matching black cloth, floral endpapers, gilt title on upper cover. (#5769).…