Root frank william connelley (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large hardcover. Stamped leatherette over boards, green and metallic red text on cover, black text on spine. Fold out map in front is missing, map in back is present and crisp. Binding tight, square, corners sharp. Pages and text clean, no writing. Previous owner's name and details in green ink on endpapers. Hint of foxing. Light shelf wear and minimal staining to covers and text block. tb/AM. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. minor wear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Includes dust jacket. dj price-clipped and in mylar sleeve, shows minor wear and tear. pages clean.

hardcover. Zustand: near fine. very good(-). Numerous black & white illustrations, folding map. 630 pages. Thick 8vo, tan pictorial cloth, battered d.w. Columbus: Long, 1950. A near fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Signed. First Edition. First edition. SIGNED by the author on a slip of paper affixed to the title page. Decorative brown cloth cover shows minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, joints starting. Loose/torn hinges. Pages are lightly tanned with minor foxing/smudges and a few pencil marks in the margins.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown cloth, very good. First edition. Guns 1897: The original is very rare and is considered the standard history of the early stage lines. It has some information on stagecoach robberies, Will Bill Hickok, and Joseph Slade. Dobie p. 79: A full storehouse. Basic. Howes R434: aa. Graff 3562. Cowan p. 541.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition (NAP). WITH FOLDOUT MAP AT REAR. Thick Quarto (9 in. x 6 in.). Illustrated with photographs, drawings, full-page illustrations, in-text figures. Black and Tan cloth covers, decorated with vignettes: top of front board depicts a graphic of galloping mounted Indians, bows drawn, chasing a mounted pioneer; bottom, an eight-team stage chasing buffalo across the plains. Gilt title superimposed over Indian bow, quiver, drum as well as a U.S. mail bag, pistol, and rifle. Some tearing along front joint; front and rear hinges with meshed mull showing in places, but still holding well -- overall still solidly bound. Frontis photo, tissue-guarded, of both authors.Detailed General Index, to rear as well as a so-called "Roll of Honor" listing the first 500 subscribers of this book. 627 pp. plus List of Subscribers. Large, 20 in. x 8 in., fold-out map (Map ( Roy D. Marsh (1901) Showing Lines of the Great Overland Stage Route, The Santa Fe Trail, Butterfield Overland Despatch, Mormon Route of 1847, and the Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express" Frank A. Root was the "Messenger-in-Charge of the Express, and Agent of the Post-Office Department to look after the transportation of the mails over the Great Stageline across the Plains and Mountains to California, and late publisher of the Atchison Free Press, Athicson Champion, Waterville Telegraph, Seneca Courier, Holton Express, North Topeka Times, Gunnison (Colo.) Review-Press, and the Topeka Mail..…

Hardcover. First edition in a slipcase. 630pp. Octavo [23 cm] Light brown pictorial cloth with gilt titles. Frontispiece portraits of the authors with tissue guard. Illustrated plates, portraits, folding map (at the rear). Good plus. The extremities are moderately rubbed and bumped. The rear endsheet is split along the hinge, the hinge is going, and the text block is cracked sporadically throughout. With the marbled paper covered slipcase, in very good condition, with moderate edge wear and a thin 2" long abrasion to the side panel. Adams Six-Guns, 1897. Wright-Howes, R 434. Flake 7417. According to Adams Six-Guns, "The original is very rare and is considered the standard history of early stage lines. It has some information on stagecoach robberies, Wild Bill Hickock, and Joseph Slade.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Three quarter leather and decorative boards, very good condition. Unusual in this rare publisher's special binding. First edition. Guns 1897: The original is very rare and is considered the standard history of the early stage lines. It has some information on stagecoach robberies, Will Bill Hickok, and Joseph Slade. Dobie p. 79: A full storehouse. Basic. Howes R434: aa. Graff 3562. Cowan p. 541.…

1st Edition. First edition. Presentation inscription by Root on a leaf tipped to the front endpaper. Illustrated with frontispiece and folding map. xvii, [1], 630 pp. 8vo. First edition of a valuable narrative of the overland mails. The map, by Roy D. Marsh of Topeka, is titled "Map Showing Lines of the Great Overland Stage Route, the Santa Fe Trail, Butterfield Overland Despatch, Mormon Route of 1847, and the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express." This copy with a nice presentation inscription by the author, dated 1920, to Ira Rand, the son of Pony Express rider Theodore Rand: "To Ira Rand, Atchison, Kansas, who is one of my 'passengers' on 'The Overland Stage to California,' and is a son of my friend, the late Theodore Rand, who was one of the fearless 'Pony Express' riders on the Plains in the early sixties. Hoping you may have a pleasant journey over the noted trail on the historic 'concord' stage-coach, is the earnest wish of Sincerely and truly yours, Frank A. Root, the author." Howes R434, "aa"; Adams, Six -Guns 1897; Streeter Sale 3117; Flake 7417; Eberstadt 103:249; Graff 3562; Reese, Best of the West 230 Publisher's cloth, upper cover pictorially blocked in black and lettered in gilt pictorial cloth, light shelf wear Illustrated with frontispiece and folding map. xvii, [1], 630 pp. 8vo First edition. Presentation inscription by Root on a leaf tipped to the front endpaper.…