Young John Smith Dwight (13 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. A Lakeside Classic. Blue clorth binding. The narrative begins in 1860. Illustrated with maps and black & white photographs. xxxii + 188 pages. Very nice condition.

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This book is in very good condition with tight binding and clean text. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This book is in very good condition with tight binding and clean text. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Heavy cover stain. Sunning. ; 188 pages.

BLUE CLOTH. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DUST JACKET, AS ISSUED. FIRST EDITION THUS (LIMITED). GOLD GILT LETTERING ON SPINE AND GOLD GILT DONNELLY INDIAN PORTRAIT LOGO ON COVER, 188 PP., TOP EDGE GILT, 6 ILLUSTRATIONS, INDEX. THIS IS VOLUME 67 OF THE ANNUAL LAKESIDE CLASSICS. NO FLAWS, NO EXCUSES. …

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lakeside Press, Chic.1969, 12mo. (xxxii,188)pp. blue cloth. NF $.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st. limited edition; navy c w/gilt decorations/titles; 188 clean, unmarked pages, top edge gilt; in mylar protective wraps. B/W Frontis (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good copy.; 8.1 X 5.5 X 0.9 inches; 188 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st edition, a Lakeside Classic of a previously unpublished manuscript. 12mo pict cloth. 188pp. Illust. Young trekked to the gold fields in 1860. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Thus. 12mo. Pp. xxxii, 180, followed by three pages of publisher's titles. Frontis. illustration. Illustrated with reproductions of historical prints and photographs. Maps printed in red and black. Index. Bound in blue cloth with publisher's emblem stamped in gilt on the front board, gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. A bright, fresh copy. From John Young's unpublished manuscript at the Newberry titled, "A Trip to the Gold Regions of the Rocky Mountains in the Summer of 1860." The publisher's annual Christmas book, offered here in presentable condition with fine shelf appeal.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. 188 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding a bit rubbed. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's name stamp on front blank endpaper. Illust. w/ b/w plates and maps. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Like new. Presumed First Edition, First Printing. [lxxxii] [4] 188 [4] pages. Navy blue cloth covered boards with gold gilt text and decoration on the spine and boards and gilt-topped page edges. Without a dust jacket as issued. This is number 67 in the Lakeside Classic series, which started in 1904. The book includes a list of the Lakeside Classics published as of 1969. Illustrated with some photographs and maps. Includes a historical introduction, a publisher's preface, and an index. Laid-in typed note reads: "With the Compliments of the Season GAYLORD DONNELLEY The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company CHICAGO" John D. Young and the Colorado Gold Rush is a historical primary-source journal published in 1969 by The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. Edited by historian Dwight L. Smith, the book is adapted directly from Young's original, unpublished 1860 manuscript titled "A Trip to the Gold Regions of the Rocky Mountains in the Summer of 1860," which is preserved at the Newberry Library. The text provides a vivid, first-hand account of life during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush (18581861) including the five-month journey of John D. Young and a party of seven men traveling by wagon from Chicago to the frontier gold fields of Colorado. Young chronicles the raw realities of the "Wild West," including witnessing a saloon-brawl murder and the subsequent lynch-law trial and execution of the killer. …

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ps.