Bertha Townsend (17 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. An American Soldier: The Life of John Laurens, Drawn Largely from Correspondence Between His Father and Himself. Book.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Hard cover published by Edwards and Broughton Co. in 1958. No dust jacket. Blue covers with gilt lettering on spine. Corners of covers are bumped some, and edges have some rubbing. Title page has a half page note to a prior owner from his aunt, stating that the subject was his direct ancestor and added some information about him. Book is in very good condition. 9-10 inches, 266 pages, 1.4 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 266 pages.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Hard cover and dust jacket published by Edwards & Broughton Co. in 1958. Blue covers with gilt lettering on spine. A prior owner of the book was a descendant of John Laurens father, Henry Laurens, and wrote notes and added photographs from the title page to the foreword page, 5 pages in all. The notes were about the Laurens family, Mepkin Plantation, and the family cemetery, and the photographs are of the cemetery and one is of the Mepkin Gardens. One of the pages in back part of the book have a photograph of the Biggins Church (ruins) and the prior owner wrote notes about it underneath the photograph. Book is in good condition. The dust jack has a plastic cover, which has been taped on the inside, and is missing pieces at top front corner and at top of the spine. DJ has tears at the corners and at bottom in back, has some scuffing, and is in good condition. 9-10 inches, 266 pages, 1.5 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 266 pages.

(LAURENS, JOHN). TOWNSEND, Sara Bertha. An American Soldier: The Life of John Laurens Drawn Largely from Correspondence between His Father and Himself. Raleigh, NC: Edwards & Broughton Company, [1958]. 1st ed. xvii,266pp. Portrait frontis., plates, portraits, map endpapers. Orig. cloth. Near fine. Correction to text signed by author. Life of the South Carolina officer. Signed.

Hardcover. 8vo. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. This first edition has boards bound in blue cloth with straight edges and pointed corners. Spine is uncreased with straight edges and gold lettering. Text block is square with toned top and fore edge. Binding is intact. 266p. Map illustrated end pages are lightly toned. Upper edges of tipped in frontispiece and title page there are damp stains, foxing and indention from paper clip. Gutter of pages 48-47, as well as pages 190-191 is cracked with binding exposed but remains intact. Some penciled underlings and notations present through out some pages. Aged Blue Dust Jacket is unclipped and lightly toned with creased and rubbed edges. Bug eaten sections across lower spine, back hinge and back upper edge. Blue and red detailing and lettering remains vibrant. Jacket is protected in mylar with straight edges and light surface scratches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards has light edge rubbing. DJ has edge wear, fading and closed tears at spine, several small holes where flap meets back. Price clipped. ; Drawn largely from correspondence between Laurens and his father. 9.0" tall; 266 pages.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Walter L. Huber, Ansel E. Adams, Lee L. Stopple, Charles E. Townsend, J.N. LeConte, Robert L. Lipman, J.E. Haynes, Marion Randall Parsons, Fred Herz, E. L. Macaulay, Bayard H. Jones, C.O. Schneider (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1926. First Edition. Vol XII, No. 3, for 1926. This was published during a several-year time period when the Sierra Club did not stipulate the month of an issue, just the volume, the number, and the year monthly designations for such an infrequent publication having always been somewhat unnecessary in any case. Original printed wrappers, 9 1/4" x 6 1/4", 120 pp. + unpaginated photographic plates and ads, including hachure maps of Yosemite Valley and Kings River Canon (canyon), and a fold-out with bi-scale elevations of the same two locales. also, a plate with an illustration of the 14' tall monument, of galvanized iron with a brass base, installed at the top Mount Shasta in 1875 (destroyed by lightning in 1905). Very Good plus, really quite close to near fine; the major flaw being the common one that circuit binding (yapp binding) was used, in which cover edges were intentionally extended out beyond page edges, but over time the extended part becomes pressed inward somewhat (see scan). Early owner's signature at top of contents page. Otherwise, just occasional very small points of cover wear. A very handsome copy. See scans. Binding sturdy, contents fine. See scan of contents page for the lineup of stellar club writers and their always engaging and adventurous topics. In addition to the graphics mentioned above, this issue is chock full of photographic plates by the club's best photographers, as well as others. Six very early Ansel Adams shots headline those, but there are also one or more shots each by Walter L. Huber, Ansel E. Adams, Lee L. Stopple, Charles E. Townsend, J.N. LeConte, Robert L. Lipman, J.E. Haynes, Marion Randall Parsons, Fred Herz, E. L. Macaulay, Bayard H. Jones, C.O. Schneider, and several uncredited shutter artists. SC2.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good Plus. Walter L. Huber, Ansel E. Adams, Lee L. Stopple, Charles E. Townsend, J.N. LeConte, Robert L. Lipman, J.E. Haynes, Marion Randall Parsons, Fred Herz, E. L. Macaulay, Bayard H. Jones, C.O. Schneider (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1926. First Edition. Vol XII, No. 3, 1926. Original printed wrappers, 9 1/4" x 6 1/4". Photographs. Edge wear to wraps, contents near fine. Clean, binding sturdy. Overall, better than very good. Photographs include six very early Ansel Adams beauties. Remaining plates include photographs, one map and one diagram of a monument. Articles include: The High Trip of 1925 (Bertha Clark Pope); Kings River Canon [Canyon] and Yosemite Valley (F.E. Matthes); Kings River Canon [Canyon] in 1868 (E.C. Winchell); First Ascent of Mount Powell (Walter L. Huber); Mount Shasta (Ansel F. Hall); The Trails of Yellowstone (Horace M. Albright); Reading Up on the Yellowstone (Francis P. Farquhar); The Medicine Bow Mountains of Wyoming (Fritiof M. Fryxell); Spring in the Tyrol (Marion Randall Parsons); and a variety of regular and special departments. Illustrated as always with plenty of black-and-white photographic plates, here by Walter L. Huber, Ansel E. Adams, Lee L. Stopple, Charles E. Townsend, J.N. LeConte, Robert L. Lipman, J.E. Haynes, Marion Randall Parsons, Fred Herz, E. L. Macaulay, Bayard H. Jones, C.O. Schneider . SC1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. DJ in archival cover, chip, light wear.

Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. xi, [2], 266 p. Includes: illustrations, bibliography. Endpaper map of operations at the Battle of Yorktown. Footnotes. Good in fair dust jacket. DJ has wear, soiling, tears and chips.

(LAURENS, JOHN). TOWNSEND, Sara Bertha. An American Soldier. The Life of John Laurens Drawn Largely from Correspondence Between His Father and Himself. Raleigh, N.C., [1958]. Illus. facs. frontis. endpaper maps. xiii, (3), 266pp. Fine in d/j.