Kemble, Edward Cleveland (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ as Issued. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover in very good condition, faint shelfwear to edges of boards, close to near fine. No DJ as issued.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Spine is slightly sun faded. ; Features illustrations. Has orange linen covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt illustration on cover. Cover protected by mylar cover. Very Good+ with No dust jacket a.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in., 17pp. Exlibrary copy with call numbers stamped to lower front board. Mild shelfwear, binding solid and strong, rubber stamp to copyright and last page of text, interior text clean. Good copy.

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Folding plate.Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in glassine wrapper. 168 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. One of 1000 copies printed. Original publisher's orange cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Small decoration of a Smith "Acorn" printing press on front cover. Custom beige paper dust jacket with cut-out windows revealing the front cover decoration and spinal lettering included. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." 168 pages, complete. A few black-and-white illustrations, complete. List of Illustrations in front. Appendix, Selected Bibliography, and Index in back. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning, a small spot of discoloration on front free endpaper, and a former owner's small sticker tipped in on back pastedown. Covers are very clean and intact except for fading along spine and top edges and some staining or dampstaining at head of spine. Corners are sharp and not bumped. Binding is tight. A Very Good book in a Fine dust jacket. "Special Publication Number 37" of the California Historical Society. A collection of journalistic writings and a few poems by Edward Cleveland Kemble (1828-1886), an American newspaper editor, author, and journalist. By the time he was 18 years old, Kemble had joined the newspaper industry. He eventually became the owner of a newspaper, the California Star. Kemble's writings herein offer a glimpse into his life and are also an important record of events in early California history. Most of the writings in this book originally appeared as articles in the Sacramento Daily Union. Titles of main contents: "How a Comet Struck the Earth," "Twenty Years Ago: The Brooklyn 'Mormons' in California," "Yerba Buena--1846" [five articles], "The Battle of Natividad" [three articles], "With Fremont: The Night after the Fray; March of the California Battalion; A Christmas on the Santa Barbara Mountains; The Close of the Campaign," "Yerba Buena--1847: The goodly Vine and its Golden Fruit," "San Francisco--1848: The peaceful Eve of the riotous Golden Morn; The first Drops of the Golden Shower; The first Party to the Gold Mines," and "Five Poems: Blowing Up the Wind; May Rhymings; September Rhymes--Sunshine; Crow; Rio Sacramento." Appendix subtitles: "The Sam Brannan Press" and "The Kemble Collections." Front colophon on copyright page: "Designed and printed in an edition of 1000 copies by the Howell-North Press, Berkeley, California.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. cover shows minor wear, fading, bumped corners. pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, 8 by 5 1/2 inches, 17 pages. Covers with nice pastedown illustration has only very very slight wear. Small stamp of previous owners name on front endpaper, otherwise contents are clean. Reproduced from the San Francisco Daily Union of 1871. Kemble was San Francisco's first printer.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Near Fine. 168 pp, orange cloth-covered boards in clear dust jacket. Very little wear on dust jacket. Slight fading on edges of boards. Pages clean, bright throughout. Sound binding. A very nice copy. Limited. Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 in - 9 3/4 in tall. Year: 1963.…

Condition: New.

Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Limited edition of 300 copies. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Hardcover. First edition Limited to 300 copies. Brown cloth and paper over boards with pictorial label on front cover, 12mo, pp iv, 17. 3 color plates. Edition of 300 copies (100 for sale). Presswork by Lawton Kennedy A fine copy in worn glassine jacke.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. iv, 17 pp. Limited to 300 copies, 100 of which are for sale.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 168 pages, 8vo. Designed and printed in an edition of 1000 copies by the Howell-North Press, Berkeley, CA. Signed and inscribed by the editor on second page leaf, thus: "To ---- ----, with best wishes of Fred B. Rogers, 9/16/63". Presentation copy to members of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. Orange cloth boards. Shelfwear: light rubbing along edges, moderate fading along edges and spine. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: very good. 1st Edition. 17pp. Octavo in cloth backed boards with 3 colour plates. very good Collection of articles from the 'Sacramento Daily Union'.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth with mylar-sleeve. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 168 pages; Description: xiii, 168 p. illus., port., facsims. (part fold.) 25 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p. 161.Subjects: California --History --1846-1850. San Francisco (Calif.) --History. Series: [California Historical Society] Special publication no. 37. Limited edition. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth with mylar-sleeve. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 168 pages; Description: xiii, 168 p. illus., port., facsims. (part fold.) 25 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p. 161.Subjects: California --History --1846-1850. San Francisco (Calif.) --History. Series: [California Historical Society] Special publication no. 37. Limited edition. 1 Kg. …

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 410. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1962 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 410.…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.