Herbert Carolan (10 results)

Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 241pp + several photo plates. Wear along edges. Good sound reading copy.

hardcover. Condition: very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 241 pages, illustrated. Moderate wear to the blue covers; bookplate inside; pages toned; a good solid book overall. No jacket. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 201488.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. Near Fine condition. Bright, clean, square, and tight. Inner hinges are perfect. Bound in the original blue cloth, lettered in bright orange on the spine and front cover. Top edge tinted orange. Previous owner's name on pastedown endpaper. Pages are clean and crisp. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with 25 photos. Describes auto tours to the Pacific Northwest; the Chicago Exposition; Alaska; Nevada, San Diego, Tijuana, national parks and deserts, Tombstone, Colorado River and Boulder Dam, Joshua Tree, the high Sierras, the gold country of the Sierra Foothills, the Redwood Highway, and various other excursions within California. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xv, 241pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Condition: FINE. First printing. Includes accounts of trips to Alaska, Chicago, the Pacific Northwest, the Southwest, Mexico, and especially many trips of excursions around California, including the Mother Lode country of the Sierra Foothills, the high Sierras, the desert and more. Illustrated with many photographs. Presentation copy INSCRIBED by the author to Howard L. Rowe, Madera County Superintendent of Schools and dated in 1941. 241 pp. Near fine in blue cloth with orange lettering, but lacking the dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Blue cloth with orange lettering. 241 pages. 25 plates. Stamped "Complimentary Copy" and additionally INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "Coronado Beach Hotel, Compliments of Herbert Carolan, May 24/1940." Very good. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1936 signed presentation copy, G.P. Putnam's Sons (New York), 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches tall blue cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, orange lettering to front cover and spine, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, 241 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with very slight bumping to tips. On the blank front free-endpaper, nicely inscribed and sign by the author to his cousin. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP04~ [2.0P] Contents: Introduction; Automobile Trip to the Northwest Pacific; Trip to Southern Arizona and New Mexico; By Motor from San Francisco Exposition and Return; The Southern Mines or Mark Twain-Bret Harte District of California; A Summer Jaunt to Alaska; Independence; Oil and Moving Pictures and Large Cities Near By; Welcome of the Central Coast on the Pacific: Further Metropolitan Features; Across Central and Southern Nevada, San Diego Exposition and Some National Parks; Conclusion.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Signs of shelf wear. Light creasing. Clipped price corners. Very Good. Original Price on Dust Jacket: $2.50.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 25 b/w halftone photographs. Dust jacket (unclipped; small circular paper label on spine). Very good. 241 pages. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper to: "Mr. Dexter, California State Superintendent of Schools, Sacramento, California, July 31st, 1940, Compliments of Herbert Carolan." Also includes trips to Arizona, New Mexico, Las Vegas, Washington, Colorado. Inscribed by Author(s).

8vo. xv, [3], 19-241, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates. Blue cloth, orange lettering front cover & spine (minor shelfwear, very light rubbing), w/ d.j. photo cover art of road through the Redwoods (minor chipping to upper right corner, small closed tear head of spine), NF/VG- copy, inscribed by author Dec. 13, 1939. First edition, inscribed, of this interesting memoir of automobile trips through the Pacific Northwest, Arizona and New Mexico, as well as visits to the 1933 Century of Progress Chicago World's Fair, and the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, CA in 1935. Carolan (1865-1942), was the son of James Carolan (d. 1912) a California gold rush 49er, and was a doctor, and later wealthy San Francisco stock and bond broker.