William L Manly (61 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. A survivor's true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush. At the height of the California gold rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert while they were looking for a shortcut to the California coast. What ensued was an ordeal that divided the camp into remnants and struck them with hunger, thirst, and a terrible sense of being lost beyond hope--until a twenty-nine-year-old hero volunteered to cross the desert to get help. This young hero, William Lewis Manly, was one of the survivors of the tragedy, and he lived to tell the tale forty-five years later in this gripping autobiography, first published in 1894. In a time of unmarked frontiers and wilderness, Manly lived the true life of a pioneer. After being hit by gold rush fever Manly joined the fateful wagon train that would get swallowed up by the barren, arid, hostile valley with its dry and waterless terrain, unearthly surface of white salts, and overwhelming heat. Assaulted and devastated by the elements, members of the camp killed their emaciated oxen for food, ran out of water, split up, and lost and buried their own kind who perished. When Manly's remaining band of ten came across a rare water hole, he and a companion, John Rogers, left the rest by the water and crossed the treacherous Panamint Mountains and Mojave Desert by themselves in search for rescue. In a true act of heroism against all odds, the two finally returned twenty-five days later with help, rescuing their compatriots, including four children, even when it seemed all hope was lost. Told at the end of the nineteenth century, Manly's compelling and stirring account brings alive to modern-day readers the unimaginable hardships of America's brave pioneers, and a chapter in Californian history that should not be forgotten.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition Pulp magazine. Bright,square,tight."Experiment in Genius" (novel) by William F. Temple; "Ishmael, the Outworlder" (novelet) by Manly Wade Wellman; "A Secondary First" by Gene L. Henderson; "The Way Back" by Margaret St. Clair. Article: "The Mystic Trance" by L. Sprague de Camp. Departments: "Today and Tomorrow" (editorial); "Reader's Preference Coupon"; "The Reckoning"; "From the Bookshelf"; "Down to Earth".Voices in the Void. .Shelf 50E.We ship within one business day of receiving your order. Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright // No previous owner names//No writing in the margins or blank spaces // No underlining. No highlighting// No foxing// Not remainder marked //Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club. …

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. [1st printing, 1960] #D-422. Cover art by Emsh. Includes "Attitudes" by Philip Jose Farmer; "Maybe Just a Little One" by R. Bretnor; "The Star Gypsies" by William Lindsay Gresham; "The Untimely Toper" by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt; "Vandy, Vandy" by Manly Wade Wellman; "Experiment" by Kay Rogers; "Lot" by Ward Moore; "Manuscript Found in a Vacuum" by P. H. Hubbard; "The Maladjusted Classroom" by H. Nearing, Jr.; "Child by Chronos" by Charles L. Harness; "New Ritual" by Idris Seabright (Margaret St. Clair); "Devlin" by W. B. Ready; "Captive Audience" by Ann Waren Griffith; "Snulbug" by Anthony Boucher; "Shepherd's Boy" by Richard Middleton; "Star Light, Star Bright" by Alfred Bester. Creasing; tear at upper rear cover foredge corner with small loss; mild tanning. Book. …

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [1st printing, 1960] #D-422. Cover art by Emsh. Includes "Attitudes" by Philip Jose Farmer; "Maybe Just a Little One" by R. Bretnor; "The Star Gypsies" by William Lindsay Gresham; "The Untimely Toper" by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt; "Vandy, Vandy" by Manly Wade Wellman; "Experiment" by Kay Rogers; "Lot" by Ward Moore; "Manuscript Found in a Vacuum" by P. H. Hubbard; "The Maladjusted Classroom" by H. Nearing, Jr.; "Child by Chronos" by Charles L. Harness; "New Ritual" by Idris Seabright (Margaret St. Clair); "Devlin" by W. B. Ready; "Captive Audience" by Ann Waren Griffith; "Snulbug" by Anthony Boucher; "Shepherd's Boy" by Richard Middleton; "Star Light, Star Bright" by Alfred Bester. Light creasing; short tear and chips at spine ends; tanning; name in pen on first page. Book. …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. Very good/none, used, illustrated stiff paper wraps, 417pp. Interior clean, no marks, binding tight. Slight rubbing to wraps, no chips or tears, corners lightly rubbed.

Condition: New.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good. Vol. 2, No. 4. Pulp magazine. Edited by Robert W. Lowndes. Cover art by Peter Poulton for "Voices in the Void" (novelet) by Milton Lesser. Includes "Experiment in Genius" (novel) by William F. Temple; "Ishmael, the Outworlder" (novelet) by Manly Wade Wellman; "A Secondary First" by Gene L. Henderson; "The Way Back" by Margaret St. Clair. Article: "The Mystic Trance" by L. Sprague de Camp. Departments: "Today and Tomorrow" (editorial); "Reader's Preference Coupon"; "The Reckoning"; "From the Bookshelf"; "Down to Earth". Illustrated by Finlay, Kiemle, and Poulton. 1.5" missing from spine cover at head and upper 1/3rd off rear cover missing; front cover pretty nice. Book.…

Paperback. Fair with staining on rear cover. Scribbling on contents page. Corner creases. Impression on outer edge.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A Lakeside Classic. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Black cloth covers with gold emblem and border on front cover and gold lettering on spine. All are bright. Gold top page ends are bright. Covers exhibit light wear and bumping on bottom edges, corners and spine ends. Light shelf wear and soiling to covers. Inside front hinge is cracked. Text is yellowed due to age. Otherwise clean and unmarked. The full page b&w frontis illustration and the fold-out map detailing the approximate route of Manly from Mineral Point to Los Angles are yellowed due to age. Otherwise in fine condition. The story of William Manly from his childhood in Vermont, as a pioneer in Wisconsin his trip through Death Valley and from famine to abundance in California. All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-lib unless stated.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition By This Publisher.. 173 pages. "More of the best. supernatural horror and awesome swashbuckling from the greatest fantasy periodical of them all! The creatures within will haunt your dreams and torment your daylight fantasies with the snister power tey hold. The great creators of chilling tales are brought together again in this convocation of monsters." CONTENTS = The Witch from hell's Kitchen" by Robert E. Howard; "Black Thirst" by C. L. Moore; "A Victim of Higher Space" by Algernon Blackwood; "The Sapphire Siren" by Nictzin Dyalhis; "A Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson; "The Crawling Horror" by Thorp McClusky; "The Kelpie" by Manly Wade Wellman.>>> Binding indents to backcover. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Gray Morrow Art! (illustrator). Book.…

very good - fine.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 2, No. 4. Pulp magazine. Edited by Robert W. Lowndes. Cover art by Peter Poulton for "Voices in the Void" (novelet) by Milton Lesser. Includes "Experiment in Genius" (novel) by William F. Temple; "Ishmael, the Outworlder" (novelet) by Manly Wade Wellman; "A Secondary First" by Gene L. Henderson; "The Way Back" by Margaret St. Clair. Article: "The Mystic Trance" by L. Sprague de Camp. Departments: "Today and Tomorrow" (editorial); "Reader's Preference Coupon"; "The Reckoning"; "From the Bookshelf"; "Down to Earth". Illustrated by Finlay, Kiemle, and Poulton. Tanned; taped at spine ends; twine impressions to rear; date-stamped on cover. Book.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 2, No. 4. Pulp magazine. Edited by Robert W. Lowndes. Cover art by Peter Poulton for "Voices in the Void" (novelet) by Milton Lesser. Includes "Experiment in Genius" (novel) by William F. Temple; "Ishmael, the Outworlder" (novelet) by Manly Wade Wellman; "A Secondary First" by Gene L. Henderson; "The Way Back" by Margaret St. Clair. Article: "The Mystic Trance" by L. Sprague de Camp. Departments: "Today and Tomorrow" (editorial); "Reader's Preference Coupon"; "The Reckoning"; "From the Bookshelf"; "Down to Earth". Illustrated by Finlay, Kiemle, and Poulton. Small chip at upper front foredge; date-stamp on cover; lower front foredge corner creased; short tear at rear mid-foredge. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Dark green cloth covers with gold design on front cover and gold borders all are clean and unmarked as is the gold lettering on the spine. Gold gilt upper page ends are bright. Covers exhibit light wear and fraying on the corners and spine ends. Light shelf wear and soiling to covers. Light yellowing and soiling to inside front and back covers. Light yellowing to front and bottom rough cut page ends. Light yellowing to text due to age. There is underlining in ink on one page of the introduction. The rest of text is clean and unmarked. Hinges are tight. The full page b&w illustration in the front of the book and the fold-out map showing the approximate route of Manly to Los Angeles are both clean and unmarked. Hinges are tight. Number 25 in the Lakeside Classics collection. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never ex-library unless explicitly described as such.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xiv+524 pp., illus., maps endpapers, cloth, vg+ Howes M-255 Wheat Gold Rush#136 Graff#2670 in Cowan Mintz#325 Edwards pp. 110-111 A first hand account of an 1849 overland, and an important desert item, as the party that Manly accompanied named Death Valley.

almost near fine.

near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 210 pages. 9.90x6.90x0.90 inches. In Stock. Burton, David; McCluskey, Gary; Carney, William L. (illustrator).

Good to Very Good condition. Tanning to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st editon. 168pp, octavo, hc w/jacket in mylar, b/w ill., fold-out map, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with light edge wear, jacket has a 1" open tear on top of back cover and is mildly soiled.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Xvi + 524 pages. Illustrated, including a fold-out map. Centennial Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 4th Edition. Fourth (Centennial) edition. Original published in 1894. Book has previous owner signature and address sticker on FFE and some general wear to page edges. DJ has chipping on both upper corners and a chip on upper, rear gutter and some other general edge wear. Black and white illustrations from the era and one folding map on rear, free end-paper. Introduction by Carl L. Wheat.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Minus. First Edition. 88pp. Wraps have light edgewaer. Front wrap has a reading crease. Wraps have light scuffs and light scratches. Edges of text block have light dust staining. First page has light stains. Tips and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good Minus. Periodical. Periodical. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NY & Santa Barbara, Wallace Hebberd (1929) . 524 pages, clothbound, no jacket, very good condition. Reprint of Howes M-255.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Light wear but some of wrap around cover still attached. Contains: Cetaganda (McMaster Bujold - final part), Unfinished Symphony (Cook and Manly), The Good Rat (Steele), Fat Power (Briggs), Which Came First? (Rotsler), Away in a Manger (Oltion). cover by Bruce Jensen (illustrator). Book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. Twenty-fifth of the Lakeside Classics series (and the last in dark green), Manly's memoir of his early life in Vermont, Michigan, Wisconsin, and gold rush trip west as a youth; with some commentary on the origin of the series. Small hardcover as pictured; full dark green cloth, gilt titling, top edge gilt. Shows some edgewear & rubbing, minor scuffs, corners bumped, spine gilt dull, spine ends lightly frayed. Text clean; xxiii, blank, 307 pages, frontispiece plate, folding map, index. Size: 4½" by 7".…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A little wear, binding sound; very good overall. Includes: Chandra's Pup (Sparhawk). Of Kings Queens and Angels (Vajra), In the Loop (Plante), Endeavor (Chase), Telepresence (Burstein), The Keeper's Riddle (Schembrie), The Time Traveller's Wife (Carter), Prayer for a Dead Paramecium (Frederick), the Pain Gun (Benford), Climbing the Blue (Baxter), July Fourth 2213 (Manly). cover by Bob Eggleton (illustrator). Book.…