enduring desert von edwards e i (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Zustand: Good. One folded sheet advertising the forthcoming book. This is an advertisement for the book, not the book itself. This item was mailed to Gardiner Johnson.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Quarto. 306pp. A trifle toned on the spine, near fine in slightly soiled, near fine slipcase.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. near fine copy in slipcase.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Excellent bibliography of books concerning the Californian desert. In VG order throughout. Smart pale green cloth with bright black and gilt titling to spine. Complete with slipcase, this a little toned and worn. 4to. 306pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Edwards as follows: "To Everett and Anna Marie | good friends-- | Fellow Bibliographers. | Eddie" and dated 9/27/69, i.e., to Everett and Anna Marie Hager. Also flat signed beneath the title on the half-title page as follows: "E.I. Edwards esq.". LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES. Laid in is the publication announcement, as well as an unopened letter postmarked June 27, 1984 from the A.K. Smiley Public Library addressed to Mrs. Everett Hager with the handwritten notation. "E.I. Edwards obit." written across the top of the envelope. 4to. (27 cm.) xiii, 306p. Index. Tan cloth with the title in gilt on a black field on the spine. No noticeable wear to extremities, covers clean and bright, gilt bright, else fine with no internal markings. Box ever so slightly shelfworn. Elza Ivan "Eddie" Edwards (1897-1984) was born in Idaho in 1897. Later he moved to California where he opened an accounting advisory service for medical offices. Edwards? hobby was Death Valley history and he was the author of several books including The Valley Whose Name is Death, Desert Voices: A Descriptive Bibliography (1958), and The Enduring Desert. He was an active member of the Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners and served as Sheriff in 1966. In 1964, he and his wife, Beryl, retired and moved to Yucca Valley, California. Edwards died in 1984. [from the finding aid to his papers] This is the descriptive bibliography of titles about the American dessert. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 306; fine in original tan cloth, spine stamped in gilt and black. Foreword by Russ Leadabrand.