Delavan James (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Clean, binding tight. 97 pages. Pub. date 1976.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Clean hardcover in good plus condition; mild shelf wear and rubbing. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Notes on California and The Placers: How to Get There, and What to Do Afterwards, Delavan, James, Biobooks, 1956, 156P, ex-library hc no dj, w/library marks/stamps, usual xlib abuse, clean text---7.00.

hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket as issued. Crisp, unread, unmarked copy.The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited ed. Green cloth hardcover with gilt titles and cover illustration, limited to 487 copies. This copy apparently bound upside down with cover markings pointing the opposite direction from the text. A near fine copy with minor bending at the spine tips. Clean and tight as if unread. 98 pp., limitation page at rear. A collection of Delavan's letters back to the Michigan Expositor detailing his experiences in California during the gold rush.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Slight curve to book; slight bumping and moderate wear to corners; slight toning to, and adjacent to, spine; faint marking and smudging to covers. Year, etc. written on front flyleaf -- interior otherwise clean, bright, unmarked. Solid boards and binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Blue cloth. Bottom corner are scufffed a bit at tips, spine is slightly toned. otherwise a very nice copy, clean and attractive, with a tight binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited ed. No reference to printing, limited to 487 copies, very good + green cloth hardcover (no dust jacket) shows bumping to bottom corners and some other light trace wear, else tight and clean. 98 pages. Still a pleasing copy of this collection of letters of historical significance to the Expositor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The green cloth boards have slight corner rubbing and slight spine tip wear. The hinges and the spine are very good. 97 pages. The inside pages are bright and look unmarked. One of 487 copies. Kurutz 182.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. Shelf wear to binding on corners, edges & spine. Some light soiling to boards. Foxing to top & fore edges. Ink spots to bottom edge. Limited edition of 700 copies.

Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued. First Edition. For those who could afford the high cost, the Panama route to California in 1849 was the fastest way to the gold fields. James Delavan wrote many letters with the last one dated May 10, 1856 describing in great detail mining and many other subjects. Green cloth binding with gold lettering and decorations. High quality production, limited edition! Printed in Linotype Caledonia on Warren's Atique 66 paper on a hand fed, 10 by 15 Chandler & Price platen press in an edition of 487 copies. 98 pages.

Illustrated. Foreword by Jos. A. Sullivan. #44 in the California Relations Series. One of 750 copies.

Hardcover. First edition thus. Illustrated. Limited edition of 700 copies. Important reference work. Fine copy. 156 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This copy new and unread. Letters from this Jonesville, Michigan doctor who succumbed to Gold Fever. He never returned to Michigan, eventually winding up in Virginia City. There is an historical introduction by John Cumming, and the book was printed by him on his private press with hand-set type. Limited edition of 487 copies. No dust jacket, as issued.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 97 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. 700 copies printed by Lederer, Street & Zeus, Berkeley, California. Cloth, The author recounts hearing of the gold discovery in California and his experiences while traveling from the East Coast, through the Isthmus of Panama and up the coast to San Francisco.

Large octavo. 156 pp. One of 700 copies. First published in 1850. Fine.

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Limited edition of 487 copies. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 97 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 335 pages. 12.50x10.00x1.75 inches. In Stock.

First ed. NF.