Purcell Roy E (44 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Towns highlighted in the volume are Reno, Elko, Carson City, Mining, Politics, and Ranching. 1/2 title page has a notation of winner of the 1987 Bookmobile contest. Roy E. Purcell (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A larger pictorial-boards softcover with an "opened-only-a-few-times" look & feel. Ever-so-slight up-turns to the card-boards' corners; otherwise this is a clean and unmarked copy. Plenty of historical Las Vegas photos together with informative text. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi bag envelope. We ship (tracking included) promptly from Roswell, Ga. Proudly serving satisfied book customers for over thirty years. 181-stated pages. Maps and illustrations by Roy E. Purcell (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Flat signed by the author on the title page. Dust jacket is price clipped. Book pages are clean with no marks. Bookseller Inventory BS/BS 13437 09/2022. Purcell, Roy E. (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Chipping along the spine of Vol II. Pages have no marks or page folds. Bookseller Inventory BS/BS6202072018. Purcell, Roy E. (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. Roy E. Purcell (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Later Printing of 1956. Intimate glimpses into 275 Ghost Towns in Nevada, California and Utah. xi, 291 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Interior is bright, clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and square with a single, faint, hairline crease to the spine. Clean, bright wrappers, without marks. Weight, 556g. Size: 22.5cm. Roy E. Purcell (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No ISBNs found. Volume I (1981) subtitled "Reno * Elko* Carson City * Mining * Politics * Ranching"; Volume II (1982) subtitled "Tonopah * Las Vegas * Ely * Gambling * Entertainment History." Both quarto trade paperbacks as-new unread, the two volumes paginated in sequence pp. 1-444 including separate indices, in each case followed by publishers' ads. Paher's best-known (and reportedly best-selling) book was "Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps." Unfortunately, we sold our signed copy of that one a couple of years back. Price for this pair now reduced from $60. Cover etching by Roy E. Purcell (illustrator).…

Oversize Tradepaperback. Condition: Very Good +. Clean unmarked copy, solid binding, nice copy. Illustrated with photographs, and maps, 222 pages. Roy E. Purcell [cover art] (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Jacket. 1st. Fine in a fine jacket with no wear or markings - looks new. Inscribed in ink by the author on the half-title page: "Inscribed for Jackie - Wishing you many hours of happy reading enjoyment - Your friend, Stanley Paher.". Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Collection of Nevada stories and anecdotes - Tonopah, Las Vegas, Ely, Gambling, Entertainment History. 439pp, photo illustrated. Bright, clean, unmarked copy, almost as new. Also, laid-in, is a photocopy of a 23pp booklet on the Mizpath Hotel in Tonopah, Nevada. Weight, 634g. Size: Quarto. Roy E. Purcell (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd printing. Quarto; B&W illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Condition: edges of DJ chipped; DJ price-clipped; inked gift inscription on half-title page; else near fine in very good+ DJ. 181 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Folio, hardcover, good ex library, in VG brown and pink pictorial dj. 48 pp. pictorial endpapers showing sweeping view of Valley. Map shows ghost towns in Death Valley. Foreword by I. Edwards. Each new gold/precious metal strike lured saloon men, room keepers, small merchants and rea l estate promoters. A shack and shanty mining town was born but the prospectors moved on. On the front cover is "The Descent" in Marble Canyon. On pack is "The Prospector" Bot etchings are adaptations of Death Valley photos taken in about 1906. Roy E. Purcell (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Trade paperback. 128 pages. Illustrated. Maps. Index. A solid copy. Roy E. Purcell (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Trade paperback. 128 pages. Illustrated. Maps. Index. Address stamp. A solid copy. Roy E. Purcell (illustrator).

Stapled. Condition: Very Good+. Edition Not Stated. Purcell, Roy E. (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: About 'As New'. First Edition, First Printing. Maps and illus. by Roy E. Purcell. OCLC Number: 239978. 181 p. illus. 32 cm. This copy appears 'as new' - hard to believe that it is 40 years old. Weight, 810g. Size: 12" Tall. Roy E. Purcell (illustrator). Book.

PF. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Limited Edition set each number 446 of 500. Both books are flat signed on the Limited Edition page. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press on Carnival paper using Zapf Aldus type. Both books enclosed in a slip case. Linen cover with an illustration on the front cover of each book. Final page of each book has a fold out illustration. Purcell, Roy E. (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Limited Edition. Fine and bright condition with the special limitation page - Number "12" and containing an Original etching "Colorado Steamer" bound into the book. Signed in ink by Paher and Roy Purcell. Also the Original etching is titled and signed in pencil by Roy Purcelll and numbered "12/190" with tissue guard. Contained in an original matching publisher slipcase with gilt steamboat picture on front cover which shows wear but is still about very good minus shape. Roy E. Purcell (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Used. green cloth binding with gilt text to spine and upper. Map end-papers, 181 pages. Pages clean, binding tight, no defects noted. Color pictorial dust jacket is not price clipped and shows only the very smallest shelf wear to extremities. Spine is slightly sunned. Roy E. Purcell (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st American Edition. The Life and History of Death Valley. Illustrated with photographs & Drawings.Introduction by E.I. Edwards. Signed and Inscribed by the author. Laid in are two large paper items : Captain Gibson: The Last of the Death Valley teamsters, and Death Valley Teamsters:A description of a long-line animal team and the men of the desert who drove them. Together with a personal note to the original owner of the book. All in Near Fine condition. Size: Folio. Roy E. Purcell (illustrator). Yes.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Olive cloth with black lettering. Map endpapers. 181 pages. Photos. Index. Light wear to jacket, spine faded. Contents clean and tight. Roy E. Purcell (illustrator).

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Lg 4 to, 48 pp. "natural" linen, dark brown titles. Photos from ca. 1906 on endpapers. LIMITED EDITION #32 of 200, SIGNED BY AUTHOR under limitation statement. Original SIGNED ETCHING bound in before title page. Slipcase, all edges worn, covers rubbed: Very Good. Roy E. Purcell, Artist. Additional sketches, photographs throughout text (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 63 pp., photographs, illustrations. A fine, unmarked, unblemished limited edition copy, in a fine unblemished slip-case. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with no inscriptions. This deluxe edition of Central Arizona Ghost Towns is limited to 100 copies with special buckram binding this being #30. An original etching of "The Mule Packersr" by Roy E. Purcell is bound into the book. COLLECTOR QUALITY. Roy e. Purcell (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Very Good+ dust jacket. Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1971. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the half title page. SEE OUR PHOTOS. Near FINE condition in a bright and shiny Very Good+ dust jacket. The price clipped jacket has a few short closed edge tears that have been neatly reinforced with clear tape on the blank side. Square and reasonably tight. Sharp corners. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NOT a library discard. Well illustrated with over 200 historic portraits, photographs, and numerous maps. Map endpapers. Bibliographic essay. Complete index. Bound in the original black-stamped brown cloth. Complete with dust jacket. Oversize Hardcover. 9.25" wide by 12.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage for international shipments, but only the standard charge for priority or media mail. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good+ dust jacket. Illus. by Purcell, Roy E. (maps and illustrations). Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Purcell, Roy E. (maps and illustrations) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. FIRST. Limited to 200 copies. Bound in is an original etching of "Colorado Steamer" also signed by Purcell. Fine condition, in gold buckram with gilt titles and illustration on front cover, in Near Fine brown leatherette slipcase. number 60. Signed by Author(s).