Dequille Dan (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1969 first edition hardback in good condition. FFEP is missing. Otherwise in very good condition. No marks, clean and bright, tight binding, orange cloth boards with just light shelf wear. In its original, price-clipped dust wrapper with chipping to edges, no major flaw. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st of this ed., xli+436+ index, frontis., plates, illus, dj, vg+ 6-Guns #2457 Howes W-710.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. An early tourist's guide to Nevada, with a focus on the Comstock Mines but expanding to cover the rest of the state. From the introduction: "The central idea in the preparation of this little book has been to give, as concisely as possible, such information in regard to the silver mines of the Comstock as the visiting tourist is likely to require. In doing this it was thought best to begin by briefly introducing the whole State of Nevada." Faded blue paper wraps, with creasing to corners and loss to the top and bottom of the spine. Slight toning throughout, with a small loss to the upper margin of one leaf (p.60), not effecting the text. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. x, 11-158pp. 7x5".

Original Gilt Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. PP xvi + 569 + 1 with numerous full page engraved illus. Foot of spine worn, minor finger soiling to boards else a very good copy of an early edition. An authentic account of the discovery, history, and working of world-renowned Comstock Silver Lode of Nevada.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Paper covers. 158 pages. Large lower corner of front cover and entire rear cover missing. Pages are yellowing but they're not brittle. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited to 50 copies of which this is number 49. Signed by the editor. The leather is scarred along the top edge on the front cover. Blind stamped on the first free endpaper Size: Octavo. Signed by Author(s). Book.

7 x 5, printed stapled wraps, 158 pp. Covers have light wear, soiling and creasing, contents have light creasing else very good. FIRST ED.

Printed wraps. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A contemporary account of of Virginia city in its heyday by the friend and colleague of Mark Twain. Scarce in the original wrappers. weight: 0.5 lb. Good plus, a dampstain to back cover, light toning, light wear and creasing to spine, in a custom slipcase. 17.5x12.3 cm. x, 158 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. first edition. decorative cloth cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, slight loss at the spine ends and corners. name and label of former owners on the front endpaper. pages tanned and clean, with just a couple of pages shaken. profusely illustrated.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Original stapled wraps. Outer wraps slightly browned, trace edgewear. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 158 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, original printed wrappers, very good condition with a tiny chip missing from bottom corner of the front wrappers and small chip from bottom of spine, previous owner's name on title page, neatly done. Written by Dan DeQuille, Mark Twain's friend. An early Nevada imprint and important book on silver mining and the Comstock Lode. Hard to find in nicer condition.

Introduction by Richard E. Lingenfelter. 165 pp. Illustrated from photographs. 8vo, publisher's full leather. No. 52 (curiously) of the Editor's Edition limited to 50 copies only, signed by R. E. Lingenfelter. 3" crack to front joint neatly repaired; some scuffing at extremties.

Original printed wrappers. Light chipping and soiling, generally very good condition. 158 pp. Paher 2221: "As an introduction to Western Nevada for the tourist, the author compiled this handy guide stressing its geographical features and its industries. There is an informative history of the initial Comstock discovery and the 'rush to Washoe', other historical events, routes and distances, a directory of western Nevada towns with interesting historical summaries of each, a sketch of Lake Tahoe and its bays, and Nevada's resources, especially mining and agricultural." Howes W711.

Printed wrappers. First Edition. x, 158pp. Original grey wrappers. Bookplate of James A. Guilfoil and date on the inside of the front cover. Chipping to spine and edges, front cover partially split, two faint spots to back cover. Internally clean. A very good copy. Howes W711. ; Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited. First Edition. One of 210 copies, printed by the L-D Allen Press. XVI, s. Rare volume avidly sought by both avid skiers and philatelists. A contemporary account of the exploits of John A. (Snow-shoe) Thompson, who from 1856 until 1876, on skis carried the mails in winter across the Sierra between Placerville and Carson City. This is #21 in the series. "This biography of Snow-shoe Thompson, 'The Skiing Mailman of the Sierra,' is reprinted from the Overland Monthly of October, 1886." Preface by Carroll D. Hall, Curator of Sutter's Fort State Historical Monument. Decorated boards. Linoleum block illustration on title, printed in green. Text printed in black and red on French Arches paper. Cream-colored board backstrip. Dan De Quille is the pen-name of William Wright. 3/4" x ½" white sticker with felt number on ffep. Original glassine wraps with two very tiny chips at top corners. Early California Travels Series Chronological Summary: 12, 169.

Virginia, NV (1889). 7x5", library buckram, 158pp, EX-LIBRARY, usual markings else ok without original wraps. FIRST EDITION.

Celebrated as a prominent historical figure from the Comstock, Wright is also revered in West Liberty Iowa, where he met and married Caroline Coleman, and where many of his family still lived until at least the mid-1950 s. Wright died there in 1898, having spent most of his adult life elsewhere. The provenance of these papers: William Wright to daughter Mell (Wright) Evans, to her daughter Irma (Evans) Morris, to her son Evans Morris, to his sister Marjory (Evans) Anderson, to a bookseller s son in Columbus, Ohio, to the present owner. Along with original manuscript material - pictures one and two above, plus marginalia in two periodicals used as source material for the story pictured in part by the manuscript leaf included here, perhaps never published, are many photocopies of original material, including six letters from Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). The originals were eventually sold or donated by the family, including most if not all of the Clemens letters to the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. Also present: Three or four files of manuscript and photocopy family correspondence, including a carte de visite (cdv) photograph of his wife, Caroline Coleman Wright, and a brief genealogy, relating to William Wright from other family members, scholars, and some friends. Copies of some scholarly papers on Wright. Virginia City promotional pamphlets and a few copies of the second version of The Territorial Enterprise, revived in 1952 by Beebe and Clegg. Lots of newspaper clippings with Wright interest, mostly from the 1940 s and 50 s. The papers are enclosed in seven or eight file folders. When stacked up, the stack measures about four inches.