Axe Ruth Frey (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. Private owner's name label on front free endpaper. ; Printed at the Shagbark Press, limited to 500 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 73 pp. 8vo. Red paper boards with titling embossed on cover as well as orange cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975. Size: Octavo. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 4to. Pp. 18. Frontis. photo portrait by Edgar Kahn. With an additional photo of Wagner by Don Hill. Bound in stiff printed wraps featuring black lettering on front cover, and a blue laurel wreath. Top corner bumped at spine, and a slight ink line on each of the three preliminaries, perhaps a printing error. Else, a Fine copy. While a larger edition of 2,000 was printed, this edition printed by Lawton Kennedy was limited to 200 copies. A fine memorial tribute to the great scholar of Western exploration. Streeter looks at the hats Wagner wore, including collector, cartographer, mining engineer, bibliographer and historian, whereas Camp provides a biography of Wagner, and his effort to revitalize the California Historical Society. The essay by Axe examines the life of Wagner's wife, Blanche Collett Wagner, who died a mere seven weeks after Henry Wagner. Where would we be without Wagner's groundbreaking research into early maritime and overland exploration? Now housed in an clear, removable archival sleeve with acid-free backing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Jacket not issued. First Edition. half orange cloth over maroon paper covered boards. Gilt to front board and spine. Square Tight Binding. Clean interior. Little wear. A superior edition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket, as issued. First Edition, Limited 500 copies. New Haven, Connecticut: William Reese Company, 1988. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. 1988. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Henry R. Wagner from 1931. Overview of Wagner's Life and Writings (pp. 5-27) by Stephen A. Colston. 193 items listed, with annotations, plus 39 "outcroppings" i.e secondary items. Bound in the original maroon boards, with an orange cloth spine. Stamped in bright gold on the spine and front cover. . First Edition, Limited 500 copies. Hardcover. New/No dust jacket, as issued. 8vo. 73pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition!!! Limited edition; 72 of 450 copies. Book has a penciled-in check mark to the margins on page 121, previous owner's name printed on front endpaper, dating 1938.otherwise book is in very good condition, bright and presentable, with a solid binding, and a unbroken spine. A very nice copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original cloth. Limited edition #248 of 440 copies. Very near fine. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 26 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Tan cloth titled in green. First English language edition limited to 450 copies, this being # 48. Covers lightly soiled, edges rubbed. Bookseller pencilled notes else unmarked. Sound and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 136 pp. Soft cover. Black and white plates. Very Good.

(WAGNER, HENRY, R.). AXE, Ruth Frey. The Published Writings of Henry R. Wagner. Original cloth-backed boards. New Haven: William Reese Company, 1988. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition of This Translation. First Edition of this translation. Limited Edition, No. 36 of 450 copies. Front colophon: "This first edition is limited to 450 copies of which this is copy Number 36." Signed by the translator on front free endpaper in black ink: "Sincerely, Ruth Frey Axe." Original publisher's beige cloth binding with green lettering on spine. 6 3/4" x 9 1/4." 282 pages, complete. Reference "Notes" in the back. Contains a tipped-in, three-page facsimile of the original German edition's front and back cover illustrations and title page. The original German edition was titled, "Nach dem Sacramento," and was first published in 1855 in the Swiss town of Aarau. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for slight bumping to lower-right corner on fore-edge. Binding is tight. A Fine copy. The English translation of Carl Meyer's collection of autobiographical travelogues (or "travel-pictures") from his tour to California beginning in 1849. Translated from the original German by Ruth Frey Axe. Introduction by Henry R. Wagner. Carl Meyer was of German-Swiss descent. It is unclear what his exact background was, but according to Wagner's Introduction, he may have been a wealthy mining engineer who wanted to travel for enjoyment. Meyer's travelogues detail his observations of life in California at the time but also contain many philosophical thoughts about man and nature. His account begins with his departure from New Orleans in 1849. The following is a sampling of the rest of his itinerary: traveling through the Isthmus of Panama, a visit to Mission San Juan Bautista, traveling through Pacheco Pass, arrival to San Joaquin Valley, mining at Mariposa mines, a visit to Stockton, a visit to San Francisco (where he stayed until 1851), mining in Trinidad County, interactions with the Yurok tribe, a ten-month stay in Sacramento, traveling through the Isthmus of Nicaragua, and landing in New York. The publisher of this book, Saunders Studio Press, was operated by Ruth Thomson and her husband, Lynne Saunders, in Claremont, California during the 1920s and 1930s. A particular subject of interest to them were titles on bookplates. Signed by Translator. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed and inscribed the the publishers, Ruth and Lynne Saunders, to the previous owner on the front free endpaper. Claremont, California: Saunders Studio Press, 1938. First edition thus limited to 450 copies of which this is copy number 206. Hardcover. 6 ½ x 9 ½ . 282 pp. Very good in a good dust jacket. The dust jacket is protected in mylar. Moderate toning and soiling to the dust jacket with chipping, creases and closed tears to the extremities. The text appears unmarked. The binding is solid. …