Tout otis b (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Collectible. FIRST. FINE/nFINE. As new except for brief neat inscription on ffep. Red cloth boards, tight binding, unread. BRIGHT gold tiling on front cover and spine. Full jacket in BRODART. One of the earliest novels built from actual newspaper stories, published in 1928, about the efforts and behind rthe scenes bargaining to begin building the Boulder Dam, to electrify Califoirnia and provide water resources to make the California Imperial Valley the productive farming community of the USA west coast and the whole country. A "Paula Bernie" novel . .an investigative reporter. Scarce and COLLECTIBLE. [B37].…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. 427 pages. 1990 reprint. Ex-library marks, light discoloring and wear; a sound binding; good shape otherwise. Quantity Available: 1. Category: American History; ISBN: 0962713600. ISBN/EAN: 9780962713606. Inventory No: 236424.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. TIPPED IN BEFORE THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER IS AN ALS dated Dec 15 -43 on Otis B. and Estella M, Tout letterhead addressed to "Fred and Family" and signed by both Touts. ALSO LAID IN is a Christmas card from the Touts hand dated "Dec '43" which has on it a color photo of the Touts sitting in front of their fireplace. 4to. (28 cm.) 429p, Profusely (!!) illustrated with black and white captioned photos, including many of the pioneers and early important people in the Imperial Valley, as well as of the author and his wife. Index to Subjects, Index to Illustrations and Index to Names. Brown Buckram blocked in triple blind with the title in raised gilt letters on a gilt cartouche on the front cover and with the title similarly displayed on the spine. Wear to extremities with corners just worn through, top and bottom of spine starting to fray, gilt somewhat dulled, small hole in spine, rubbing along the gutters of the covers, tipped and laid in items in near fine condition, some tape stains on the front pastedown, all photos in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket, perhaps as issued. All in all in extraordinarily fine condition for this heavy book with coated paper stock now nearly a hundred years old. A "must have" for any collector of Imperial Valley books and a rare find with the included ephemera. [Please note: Extra postage may be required for this large heavy volume with coated paper stock. No shipment outside the USA.].…