Strate David K (18 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. Kansas Heritage Center, Dodge City, KS. 1984. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: New. No DJ. Printed card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 193 pp 8vo. The author's letters have lain dormant in newspaper files since 1863. They are not available as a source of eyewitness accounts of the Civil War period along the trail in Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. He saw the plight of Bleeding Kansas and life at Forts Leavenworth, Riley, Larned, Lyon, Union, and Wingate. He talked with William Bent and Lucien Maxwell and left descriptions of their homes. These are vibrant accounts of travel through the West. A clean pristine copy.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. some underlining.

Cloth - Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 147 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrated beige cloth boards. Illustrations and maps. Notes, bibliography and index. 147 pp. Small round water stain to edge of front cover. NEAR FINE.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Hardcover/The Far West letters of Joseph Pratt Allyn / No jacket / Decorated boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Pictorial hardcover that is stuffed with illustrations regarding the diary and Far West Letters of Joseph Pratt Allyn. Edited by John Nicolson and David K. Strate, and bound handsomely as is the wont of the California Book Club, being publication #187 of the now 200+ volumes they've printed. Tall quarto format, clean and remarkably bright of interior. Eleven photographic plates in black-and-white, including of the author of the letters, dated 1863.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Simple, plain white paper wraps, scuffed a bit and lightly worn along edges, over pictorial hardcover that is stuffed with illustrations regarding the diary and Far West Letters of Joseph Pratt Allyn. Edited by John Nicolson and David K. Strate, and bound handsomely as is the wont of the California Book Club, being publication #187 of the now 200+ volumes they've printed. Tall quarto format, clean and remarkably bright of interior.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Wraps. Condition: Good+. Text block clean and tight with moderate wear to cover. 193 pp. w/index Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. B&W Photographs & Drawings; One Folded Map (illustrator). Paperback.

Softcover. Kansas Heritage Center. 1984. Dodge City, KS. Softcover (trade paper). Octavo. Illustrated with archival photographs and drawings. Indexed, with 5-page bibliography. 193 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. ***please read*** Slight shelf wear - pencil note on flyleaf - no marks on text - 147 pages - my shelf location - 29-d-42*.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Meets the good condition guidelines. Has wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

unknown_binding. Condition: Used; acceptable. Autograph of author. first 6 p. detached but present.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st American Edition Thus. Travel letters of an observant and intelligent Judge. 450 copies printed by the Greenwood Press California Book Club publication No. 187 Promotional Material laid in. Near Fine, in Original plain D. J. Size: 8vo. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First edition. 192 pp. Quarto. [26 cm]. Pictorial paper over boards. Title marked in pencil on non-original white paper dustjacket. This is a printing limited to 500 copies. This is publication number 187. Contains the letters of congressional attache and Associate Justice Joseph Pratt Allyn of Arizona in its fledgling years as a state.…

Hardcover. Condition: As new. First edition. xxiii, 192 pp., frontispiece and 10 monochrome plates, 8vo, original decorative boards with paper spine label. 17 letters written by Joseph Pratt Allyn (1833-1869) to the Hartford (Connecticut) Evening Press from various points in the West during the years 1863-1866 on his way from St. Louis to California. Edition of 450 copies.…

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Illustrated boards. Illustrations. 450 copies printed by The Greenwood Press. From the Introduction: "What emerges above all from this collection of letters is Joseph Allyn's extraordinary resilience and his unusual insight into the course of future events and alertness to what has not yet been experienced and developed. One can only regretfully reflect on what he might have seen, done and written had he lived longer than thirty-six years". His letters are followed by editor's notes explaining certain references in greater detail. The author visits the State Capital in Sacramento in 1866 and writes, "A rapid sail on a commodious steamer through a succession of bays and up the (Sacramento) River brings one to the capital of the state of C alifornia". "Sacramento, like San Francisco, was the victim of accident in the selection of its site".…