Howard Lamar Editor (36 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stated First Edition. Ex Library, Standard Library Stamps, Check Out Tab, Reading Copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Fifth Printing. 294 Pages Indexed. Pages 105-124 bottom corner is crimped otherwwise beautiful tight square book with very attractive cover. In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Her travel journal was written at a crucial time, when the Mexican War was beginning and New Mexico was occupied by Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West. Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house and town to town, she became adept in Spanish and the lingo of traders, and wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of places she went. She gave birth to her first child during the journey and admitted, "This thing of marrying is not what it is cracked up to be." Valuable as a social and historical record of her encounters- she met Zachary Taylor and was agreeably disappointed to find him disheveled but kindly-her journal is equally important as a chronicle of her growing intelligence, experience, and strength, her lost illusions and her coming to terms with herself. Includes a map showing the route.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. tight, sturdy spine, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. Stated First Edition. A review copy with publisher's card laid in. Normal wear including slightly bowed boards. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. First printing. Unclipped ($24.95) Mylar protected dust jacket. Clean and solid with a slight spine slant and the head of the spine is a bit concave (both conditions are common in books this thick). A slight nudge to the spine's foot. The DJ has a very faint amount of creasing to the spine's head. One flap corner has a small chip. Not a remainder.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. First Edition. (1977) 1,306 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on black cloth spine. Binding lightly soiled w/ light discoloration along bottom edges. Boards a bit bowed. Faint musty odor. DJ has modest edge wear. Illust. w/ b/w photos and drawings.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bright And Clean, No Names Or Marks, New In Very Good Dj With Light Edge Rubbing And Small Tears And Sunning To Spine Now In Protective Mylar. Heavy Book May Require Extra Shippine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Text and images unmarked.

First printing. 4to 11 1/4" x 9" x 2 1/4" thick. Black cloth and orange boards stamped in gilt. xv, 1324 pages. 2,400 alphabetical listings. 300 contributors. 600 illustrations and maps. Text is clean and bright. "Withdrawn" stamp on flyleaf. Tightly bound. Small inconspicuous tape pull on front board. Small tape pull on rear pastedown. Appears hardly used. Dust jacket. near Fine/ near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Archival photos (illustrator). First Edition, 2nd Printing. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/top edge of front endpaper neatly trimmed --- to remove prior owner's name? Bi-color boards/NF w/trace surface wear. DJ/None. 1987 First Edition, 2nd Printing. Encyclopedic reference/resource devoted to the changing cultures of the American West with passage of time. 1306 pgs, with acknowledgments to contributions from some 200 scholars. Entries include prevalent folklore & legends, major writers of western fiction, and biographies of western figures.

Condition: New. New dust jacket. CAAS Memoir XXVI. Volume I. Shrink wrapped! (Connecticut, History, Towns, Social Life, Manners, Customs).

Condition: New. New dust jacket. CAAS Memoir XXVII. Volume II. Shrink wrapped! (Connecticut, History, Towns, Social Life, Manners, Customs).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Stated First Edition - first printing. Book is clean and tight. Dust Jacket covered with mylar. Nicks/tears along dust jacket edges with one-inch tear at top inside front dust jacket and scotch tape along the top jacket spine. 1306 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING as such. "The encyclopedia, a thoroughly revised and expanded version of Howard Lamar's acclaimed twenty-year-old 'Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West,' consists of more than 2,400 entries in alphabetical order by more than 300 contributors, along with over 600 illustrations and maps (four times more than in the original editon). Among the topics covered are: the formative period of each state; the diplomacy of American expansion; important discoverers and mountain men; major Native American tribes, their leaders, and culture; pivotal women such as Sacagawea, Annie Oakley, and Willa Cather; African Americans, Asian Americans, and Mexican Americans on the western frontier; novelists, artists, and filmmakers and the real and fictional people they turned into mythic heroes or villains; politicians from Benjamin Franklin to Ronald Reagan; major cities and landmarks; and conservation and wildlife issues." 1,324 pages. AN AMERICAN WEST RESOURCE MUST! Some sway to spine, not uncommon in this title due to text length/weight/size. Bumping to top of DJ spine. Some shelf rubbing to DJ cover, elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy. *Note: Extra shipping may be required in accordance with 6.4 lb. weight of the book and destination. LBCMD1.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 236 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Boards. Condition: Very Good in Very Good DJ. First printing. 4to, 1324 pp., b/w illus. Light soiling to page edges, light edgewear to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. A As New volume, being clean and tight, no markings except for a neat previous owners name on ffep, dated 1964. A complete "Munster Roll" of the Navy's ship Portsmouth of June 1846 at rear. Dust jacket has price on front flap. Gently sunned and rubbed spine paper, with light shelf wear to extremities (tiny chips and shallow edge creases.) A journal by a yeoman/common sailor records an account of his time aboard the Portsmouth. 246 pages. Mylar protected jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 302 pp. Original brown cloth covers, very bright and clean. DJ lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. Approx. 1/2" closed tear from top edge of front panel. Spine a bit sunned. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. EDITOR INSCRIBED (to the first owner) first printing (complete number line), hardcover in excellent, near-pristine condition (slight handling, slight corner bump, slight crease on front endpaper), with VG dust jacket (Slight handling, hint of gloss wear, protected by a clear, removeable cover). 1324 pages. Only slow bookrate/media USA shipment available. [6.7 lbs]. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; Second Printing. 8vo; 246 pages; Price clipped jacket with minor rubbing.

Soft cover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace wear to corner tips. Story of the discovery of the Oregon Trail, main overland route connecting the Missouri River to the Oregon Country, which came to light with the 1930s recovery of journals kept by Robert Stuart (1785-1848). Stuart's detailed records narrate the trip eastward from Fort Astoria to St. Louis in the winter months of 1812 - 1813. It is said that Washington Irving's (1783 -1859) Astoria (1836) drew from this journal. Scholarly historical study.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 254 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a very large and authoritative book "surveying the entire range of America's frontier experience, from the colonial era to the space age." Condition: a fine copy in a price-clipped but otherwise fine dust jacket. B&W illustrations & maps. 1306 pages.

paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 570 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. A reissue of the 1958 edition. A yeoman's account of life on a man-of-war. His journal presents a lively and uninhibited account of the seizure of San Francisco. An essential source for the history of California and of the U. S. Navy. Number 4 in the Yale Western Americana series. 246 pages, Muster Roll of the Portsmouth, index. Light wear to the folds and edges of the dust jacket. No names, writing, or marks in book. Dust jacket and book are in Near Fine condition. ; Standard Book Size.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second printing [stated]. xxi, [1], 246, [6] pages. Color frontis. Footnotes. Maps. Appendix 1. The Pacific Squadron in 1846. Appendix 2. Muster Roll of the Portsmouth. Index. Minor soiling noted. Howard Roberts Lamar (born November 18, 1923) is a historian of the American West. In addition to being Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University since 1994, he served as Acting President of Yale University from 1992 to 1993. The second USS Portsmouth was a wooden sloop-of-war in the United States Navy in service during the mid-to-late 19th century. She was designed by Josiah Barker on the lines of a French-built privateer, and built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, directly across the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was described as an improvement over USS Saratoga built in the same shipyard a year earlier. Portsmouth was launched on 23 October 1843 and commissioned on 10 November 1844, with Commander John Berrien Montgomery in command. Portsmouth had an important role during the Mexican-American War, seizing the port of Yerba Buena (today's San Francisco) from Mexico. She had set sail on 25 January 1845 from Norfolk, Virginia, on a cruise around Cape Horn to join the Pacific Squadron under the command of Commodore John D. Sloat. Upon arriving off the Departamento de Las Californias coast, with Lieutenant Benjamin F. B. Hunter as her Sailing Master, she was initially engaged in watching the movements of British vessels there to prevent the possibility of Great Britain acquiring the region during any conflict between the U.S. and Mexico. After the declaration of war with Mexico, a detachment of Marines under the command of Second Lieutenant Henry Bulls Watson rowed ashore on 9 July 1846, marched to the pueblo's main plaza, and raised the American flag, thereby seizing the city. In the square there is a US Flag and a commemorative plaque set by the Daughters of the American Revolution.