Lavender Editor David (19 results)

Paperback. Condition: VG. Paperback. VG. 468pp. Extremities lightly rubbed. Illus.; index.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. MAGAZINE. NICE COPY. stapled binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Clean hardcover stated First Edition in unclipped dust jacket. Gray paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover, black cloth spine with silver lettering. Slight fading to edges. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. No names, writing or bookplates. Beautifully illustrated with historical photographs. Foreword by Larry McMurtry. 220 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Recollections by Dee Brown, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., David Lavender, Wright Morris, Clyde Rice, Wallace Stegner, Frank Waters.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good in Good DJ. 8 1/2 x 11, 416 pgs, index, b&w and color historical photos and illustrations. The epic story of the exploration and conquest of the West from 1763, when England won domination over territory stretching as far as the Mississippi, to the twilight of the frontier in the early twentieth century.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, First Thus. BRAND NEW Copy w/a whisper of wear to corner tips. Map of Proposed Wilderness Areas in Colorado the front endpapers. Monograph. A socio-political and philosophical treatise on conservation in contemporary Colorado. Raising issues on: How much do we protect?; What about water rights?; How should timber & mining industries should fit in?; and, What about motorized traffic? An essential and basic discourse within the specifics of Colorado with raminifactions to the world at large. John Fielder (Editor-Photographer) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with an address label on the front cover. Complete issue.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Out of print.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Thus. Text/NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed green linen boards/VG w/trace edge rubs & surface wear. DJ/VG; intact w/archival tape reinforcement. PO sticker to fEP, & book shop label to front cover verso. Volume in Mainstream of America Series. Intellectual history of the exploration and conquest of the Pacific Northwest. Spanning two centuries, historian David Lavender (1910 - 2003) follows the concept of "Manifest Destiny", the spirit propelling English and Spanish quest for a northwest passage to the Orient, Russian fur traders on the Aleutians, the Lewis & Clark expedition, the rise of great fur companies, draw of the "Oregon fever" and how gold, silver & copper lured thousands more to the new land. All this led the way to railroads, steamship lines to service the mushrooming settlements all the while subjugating of Native Americas, then to rise of fishing, farming & lumber industries, then to the successive development of massive modern power & reclamation projects, and rise of environmental conservationists as wild lands of Paul Bunyan disappeared.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1963) 426 pp. Original yellow cloth covers, very bright and clean. Corners and spine ends a bit bumped. DJ lightly soiled; spine darkened. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents nice. Marian Ebert (illustrator).

dj. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1965. 4to, 416 pp. Numerous full color and b/w illustrations throughout. Quarter blue cloth, teal paper boards, gilt lettering to backstrip and decoration to upper cover, color illustrated dust jacket. Dust-jacket moderately worn, pages age toned. § The story of the West as stirring American epic. …

Hard Cover/Slipcase. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Embossed maroon linen boards w/gilt lettering/Fine. DJ/None as Issued. Black slipcase w/pastedown illustration of Jedediah Smith on horseback by Harvey Dunn/NF w/small losses to pastedown edges. Illustrated endpapers. Text by noted historian of the Western United States, and twice recipient of the Pulitzer, David Sievert Lavender (1910 - 2003). 14 chapters augmented w/illustrations, maps & photos: !, Beyond the First Mountains 1763-1779; 2, Whose West? 1779-1795; 3, The Trans-Mississippi Mystery 1792-1807; 4, Barren Beginnings 1804-1813; 5, War & Depression 1810-1821; 6, Seven-League Boots 1821-1833; 7, The Southwestern Barriers 1825-1844; 8, The Great Surge 1832-1846; 9, New Empires 1846-1848; 10, The Miseries of Richness 1848-1854; 11, The Great Prize 1852-1861; 12, Clearing the Way 1854-1870; 13, High, Wide, & Ugly 1870-1890; and 14, New Values 1890-1914.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition in unclipped dj in mylar.The American Trails Series. Inscribed to a friend of the author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover/Slipcase. Condition: Collectible - Near Fine. None as Issued. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed bi-color blue boards/Fine. DJ/NF. Illustrated endpapers. History of America West. Text by noted historian of the Western United States, and twice recipient of the Pulitzer, David Sievert Lavender (1910 - 2003). 14 chapters augmented w/illustrations, maps & photos: !, Beyond the First Mountains 1763-1779; 2, Whose West? 1779-1795; 3, The Trans-Mississippi Mystery 1792-1807; 4, Barren Beginnings 1804-1813; 5, War & Depression 1810-1821; 6, Seven-League Boots 1821-1833; 7, The Southwestern Barriers 1825-1844; 8, The Great Surge 1832-1846; 9, New Empires 1846-1848; 10, The Miseries of Richness 1848-1854; 11, The Great Prize 1852-1861; 12, Clearing the Way 1854-1870; 13, High, Wide, & Ugly 1870-1890; and 14, New Values 1890-1914. First Edition, First Thus.…

dj. First Edition. First Edition. Price-clipped. Small price sticker to the front inside dust jacket flap. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. Volume 2 only; book's front cover has slight bow, light toning to pages, bookplate w/small inscription inked on FFEP; plain white paper DJ is lightly toning but darker on spine, 2 small chips to bottom edge, small tears w/creases, crease to front flap, small rub marks to spine; 4 fold-out illustrations; 166 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 2 hardcover books. Limited Edition Copy #211 of 600. Red cloth over boards, gilt design on covers and spines. Clean, square copies. Text unmarked throughout each. Pages bright, bindings tight. Vol 1 has fold-flap map at front, also loose folded map of North America included at back of book. Hint of shelfwear. tb/am w/Osbornes.…

1990, 1st edition. (Oblong 8vo hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 220pp. Photographs. Previous owner's name. Contributors include Dee Brown, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., David Lavender, Wright Morris, Clyde Rice. Locale: United States. (Western America, Memoirs, Writers).

Pictorial commentary Ralph K. Andrist. Pp. 416, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (several full page), index; demy 4to; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards slightly bruised, a couple of tiny puncture marks to lower board; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split; the upper free endpaper faintly marked; American Publishing Company, Inc./Bonanza Books, New York, 1982. *First published in 1965.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Two volumes. Limited #39 of 600 copies. Original red cloth gilt. Foldout map endpaper in volume 1, laid-in folding map. Bookplates each volume. The two plain white paper DJs are slightly toned, and the titles have been inked to the spines. ; quarto; 88;166 pages.…