Walter Havinghurst (21 results)

Condition: Good. Rev. and expanded ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Second printing of the first Bison paperback in glossy covers illustrated with a vintage event poster from Buffalo Bill's Wild West. 246 pp book is crisp and unmarked save for pencil note at head of title page that tells where the former owner purchased the book. Filled with fun facts and a bit of mystery too.

hardcover. Condition: 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!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. Good condition. Foxing on the FEP and BEP. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint. Reprint. Hard cover 8vo. Fine and unmarked book in Fine DJ. 310pp; illustrated in photos. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Stated First Edition. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2", 223 pages. Part I "Men and Iron", Part II "The New Century". Light moisture mark on bottom page corners on pages 197-204; jacket edges are lightly worn and chipped at corners; jacket spine is slightly sun-faded; jacket in mylar sleeve.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Pictures by Harve Stein (illustrator). Later printing. Near fine in very good, lightly edge worn dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Putnam, 1958. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with inscription from previous owner on free end paper. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edge wear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1958. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf and light shelf/edgewear. No dust jacket.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, Second Printing (1967). Not price-clipped. Published by Macmillan Company, 1964. Octavo. Hardcover. Ex-library. Yellow topstain. Book is very good with ex-library stamps, spotting, toning, rear flyleaf cut out, and tape residue front flyleaf. Dust jacket is very good with writing on spine, tear spine, and shelf/edge wear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. blue & black decorative (ship on spine) gilt lettered full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. near fine cond. binding square & tight. front cover has a couple tiny spots . minor sunfaded strip along the top. edges clean. contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in near fine cond. couple 1cm tears spine top, flaps creased inside, minor soiling, pencil scratch on rear. nice clean vintage copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 6th printing. endpaper maps. illustrated title pg.xvii+421p. 16 glossy b&w photos & illustrations. world history. american history. canadian history. history of new france. maritime history. nautical history. naval history. war of 1812. ~ Extending into the heart of North America, the Great Lakes have for three hundred and fifty years been waterways of exploration, travel, immigration, and commerce. The history of these years is told in this volume in the firsthand narratives of the people who witnessed the scenes and the episodes in the shaping of this great inland maritime empire from its beginnings. Selecting the most dramatic and revealing of the stories, diaries, journals, and letters, Walter Havighurst, who has long loved the region, has woven them together with a running commentary that unites the whole exciting history. Priests, fur traders, and explorers in the days of the voyageurs contribute tales of incredible hardship and heroism. There is Father Hennepin's voyage with La Salle on the Griffin, the first commercial boat on the Lakes, foretelling the "inconceivable commerce" that would someday come to the empty waters of what Melville called "those grand fresh water seas of ours." The lone survivor of an Indian massacre writes a chilling account of his experience; a young surgeon who was on Perry's flagship, the Lawrence, describes the hardwon victory of 1813. There are stirring stories of the early steamboats the Ontario, the Frontenac, and the Walk~In~The~Water, which plied the Great Lakes at a time when the surrounding territory was the Indian West, the frontier of America. And there is a section on the great storms and wrecks, including a passenger's description of the loss of the Walk~In~The~Water. The journals of Douglass Houghton, the brilliant young scientist are included, along with a firsthand account by two of his boatmen of his early death by drowning. There are the diaries and reminiscences of the men who were first on the scene in the copper rush of the mid~1840's and of the later iron discoveries. And there is the story of the stubborn dream of years that led to the Merritt brothers' discovery of the Mesabi Iron Range. The history of the ore ships, the locks, and the canals is traced by the men who envisioned them and built them. An eyewitness report recounts a comic~opera incident in which a U.S. Army company and the state of Michigan tangled in hand~to~hand combat over an abandoned millrace. Most of the incidents and adventures narrated in the book occurred many years before such cities as Minneapolis and Cleveland reared their skyscrapers over the twelve hundred miles of blue water, but it is because of the heroism and endurance ot these earlier Americans that they are there today, looking out over an area that saw much of America's history in the making. Sixteen pages of illustrations and endpaper map.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 372 pp., bibliography, 17 illustrations tipped in, index. Brown cloth board with rubbed gold lettering. Pastedowns have map of "The Old North West" extending from the Hurons and West Virginia to Illinois and Missouri. Minor edgewear, corners slightly bumped, textblock curved at spine. DJ sunned and worn along edges with a few small chips at spine and flap ends. Text is light and clean. Part of the American Procession Series. "In 1795, fifty million acres between the Ohio River, the Great Lakes and the mighty Mississippi were a silent wilderness broken only by open forest meadows. That year Mad Anthony Wayne made the treaty at Fort Greenville by which the few thousands of Indians in the area began their cessions of land. Here is the epic story of how that vast region was settled by an unparalled migration from the east - New England, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia - and from Europe."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Paperback. Condition: As New.

brown embossed cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic cover. fine cond. nice clean copy. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. old owner's name writ small in ink at 2 places in front, othw. contents free of all markings. dustwr. near fine cond., 3 small tears (<1"), minor rubbing, not price clipped. first edition. first printing (nap). endpaper maps. xii +372p. 16 b&w maps & illustrations. biblio. index. american history. politics. old northwest. economics. ohio river. great lakes. mississippi river. british empire. new france. american indian history. "In 1795, fifty million acres between the Ohio River, the Great Lakes and the mighty Mississippi were a silent wilderness broken only by open forest meadows. That year Mad Anthony Wayne made the treaty at Fort Greenville by which the few thousands of Indians in the area began their cessions of land. Here is the epic story of how that vast region was settled by an unparalled migration from the east~New England, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia~and from Europe. First came the squatters, then eastern speculators whose advertisements boosting fictitious new towns whetted the appetites of land~hungry thousands. But many settlements were made on a sound basis, and thrived. The land got itself settled through all this hodge~podge of good and evil. And new states were gradually carved out of the huge territory that before 1795 had known only the moccasins of Indian or occasional hunter and trader~Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and finally, Wisconsin. When, in 1840, Ohio gave a President to the United States, William Henry Harrison, a period came to a close~the huge Ohio territory had ceased to be a frontier. With a wide sweep of poetic imagination and deep insight into human nature, Walter Havighurst unfolds this cyclorama of a new nation being born. His is a great gift for graphic portraiture of salty frontier characters, a deep sense of compassion for the Indians who were robbed of their heritage and pushed toward extermination. The reader will feel that he is participating in a great epic movement, colorful, furious and primitive.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Rebound with a library bounding. Clear text. Age spotting on pages. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good, Clean, Dudley Bell Priester Bookplate At Front Pastedown, Octavo, PP.258, Illustrated By David and Lolita Granahan, Map, Second Volume Of The Series; Story Of Norse Pioneers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Second Printing. 291pp. Gray cloth cover with black titles, has slight edge rubbing. Illustrated dustjacket with moderate losses, jacket in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1964 Williamsburg Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design & illustrations.

315 S., OLn., OU (mit Randläsuren), 8°. Zustand: gut.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, author's first book. Small 8vo., 260 pp., 'block printed' pictorial dj. in red & black on gray-green paper; showing men unloading boat at pier. 3' section chipped away along lower right front edge. Gray cloth, title, etc. stamped in orange, a few damp spots to red stained top edge. VG+/VG. Novel about the Pacific Northwest Longshoreman's Strike. Havinghurst went on to write novels about early days in Ohio, & books on the Great Lakes. Presentation copy SIGNED on fep., & dated Oct. 7, 1935. Signed by Author(s).