rich virtulon (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Duodecimo, cloth and boards. Original published price was $10. In 1832 the sickly Rich left Vermont to travel thru lower Ohio, Indiana and Illinois in search of better health. He studied law in Indianapolis, was admitted to the bar in Zanesville, OH, became a justice of the peace, re-located to Lapeer, MI where he practiced law and again became a J.P. Printed from the MS, this journal contains intermittent remarks on members of the bar and bench in the Old Northwest Territory. [CC, LIV].

Zustand: Good. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only, Please See Below For Further DetailsCONDITION ? GOOD Some wear/marks to cover, foxing to fore edges/pages, pages in good condition, shipped from the UK.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 6 x 8 inches. xix, 81 pages. Condition is Very Good; Light wear to edges of covers, text and illustrations are very clean, binding is tight. STK.

First edition, published as a keepsake by the club from the original manuscript. 12mo. xix, 81 pp. Map, frontispiece portrait of Rich, plates. Rich traveled from Vermont to Illinois. Cloth-backed marbled boards (rubbed), gilt spine title, endpaper maps. Very good copy with a piece of Caxton Club ephemera laid in.

hardcover. Ed. by Virtulon Rich. illus. 81pp. 12mo, 1/2 cloth. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1965. vg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. Cloth, no dj. Quarter-bound beige cloth with marbled paper sides. 81 numbered pp. Minor shelf wear; light rubbing at corners of boards. Else a bright, clean copy.

Hard Cover. Zustand: New. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Limited First Edition. Quarter bound in brown cloth over marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, maps on endpapers. Illustrated with photographs of Rich's bound manuscript, a section of manuscript itself, and a portrait. Edited with an Introduction by Dwight L. Smith. This is the first printing of Virtulon Rich's journal of his travels West from his home in Vermont to the Ohio Valley. Rich's manuscript was re-discovered in the Los Angeles bookshop of Bennett and Marshall in 1963. They had purchased it some years earlier for a Mr. Spicer who claimed to be a descentant of Rich's. The editor, Dwight L. Smith was assisted in his work by members of the Caxton Club and by the staff of the Newberry Library. The President of the Newberry Library at the time was Hermon Dunlap Smith, who was also a former President of the Caxton Club. Dwight L. Smith was a prolific author and editor of works on early American history and Westward expansion. He was the author of "Era of the American Revolution: A Bibliography," Indians of the United States and Canada: A Bibliography," and "American and Canadian West." He edited numerous works in this field, including "John D. Young and the Colorado Gold Rush," Survival On Westward Trek: 1858-1859: The John Jones Overlanders," "The Colorado River Survey: Robert B. Stanton and the Denver, Colorado Canyon & Pacific Railroad," and many others. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean; still in original sealed shipping box. NEW. B&W Photographs. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. xix, 81 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Edited with an Introduction by Dwight L. Smith. Small octavo. 81pp. Spine sunned, boards with moderate edgewear and a bit of rubbing on the lower board, very good. Signed by 97 members and friends of The Caxton Club and presented to Yale University Librarian James T. Babb, on the occasion of his addressing the Caxton Club, concerning collections of the Yale University Libraries, on October 20, 1965. The signatures are on four tipped-in leaves, with a calligraphic gift inscription.