henry c dane (5 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a collection of western stories from the 1910s through the 1940s. Penguin 654. Contents include The Man From Cherrycow (Dane Coolidge), The Caballero's Way (O Henry), Pecos Bill and the Willful Coyote (William C White), Gonzaleze Again, or The Bravo's Stratagem (Charles W Webber), The Ghost of Billy the Kid (Edwin Corle), The Marshall of Broken Lance (Frank Gruber), Guns Against the Law Badge (Will Ermine), The Drifting Kid Moves On (Harry Sinclair Drago, Shotguns Ain't Particular (E B Mann), The Seeing Eye (Will James) and How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar (Bret Harte). Light edge wear. Crease along the top edge of the front cover. Light browning to the pages. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a collection of western stories from the 1910s through the 1940s. Penguin 654. Contents include The Man From Cherrycow (Dane Coolidge), The Caballero's Way (O Henry), Pecos Bill and the Willful Coyote (William C White), Gonzaleze Again, or The Bravo's Stratagem (Charles W Webber), The Ghost of Billy the Kid (Edwin Corle), The Marshall of Broken Lance (Frank Gruber), Guns Against the Law Badge (Will Ermine), The Drifting Kid Moves On (Harry Sinclair Drago, Shotguns Ain't Particular (E B Mann), The Seeing Eye (Will James) and How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar (Bret Harte). Light edge wear. Small scrape at the top of the back cover. The laminate is starting to peel at the top and bottom of the spine. Spine lean. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Very good overall. A manuscript letter along with an unrecorded handbill of Henry C. Dane. Major Henry Dane was a Civil War veteran who made his way to Australia and New Zealand in 1887 as a lecturer. He began as a wheelwright, then enlisted at age 29 in Cambridge, 4 Oct., 1862, and mustered in as 1st Lieutenant. He received a commission as Captain of Co. "F", Third Massachusetts Calvary Regiment. He was promoted to Brevet Major 13 March, 1865. He resigned his post 15 May, 1865, and became an attorney at law practicing in the District of Columbia. In 1873 he is listed as a partner of Dane & Baker in Boston, MA. In 1880-81 he traveled to Chicago lecturing. He became a resident of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1875 and reviews of his lectures appear in Sydney Morning Herald and National Library Newspaper in 1887,1888, 1891. His letter speaks fondly of his friend Henry Allison of Fitchburg, MA and describes the beautiful trees, ferns, flowers, bays of both NZ and Australia, and is wonderful reception there while lecturing, including the kind people he has met. 'You remember that Sydney was formerly a Convict Colony. Traces of those hard times are plenty all about me. No one ever speaks of it here, for no one knows who may be the son or daughter of a convict. I of course am silent. But still I am gathering facts.' Letter is slightly toned, with original folds. Includes the Sydney franked original envelope. Also included is a copy of the Sydney printed handbill advertising his lectures which he sent to his friend. The handbill lists three lectures at the New Masonic Hall on Castereagh St., August 18, 1887 "Up the Rhine & Over the Alps with a Knapsack," August 19, 1887 "The Great Naval Battles of the American Rebellion" under the patronage of the Honourable Gilderoy W. Griffin, U.S. Consul, August 23, 1887 "The Heroic in Womanhood" under the patronage of His Worship the Mayor A.J. Riley, Esq., MLA. Printed in numerous type fonts on thicker gauge paper, with splitting along all folds (needs conservation). The handbill not found in Trove.