Adventures Apache Country, First Edition (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st, thus edition; dj w/number written on front, lite chipping, unclipped price; 535 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. Browne, J. Ross (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is a Near Fine copy of the first edition. In brown cloth over boards. Gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Very light foxing to the first few pages. The spine lettering is very bright. There is a very small scratch on the spine below the lettering. The book is clean and solid. There is a brief inscription (in pencil): "For N.E. News Co- M. Blake" NOT an ex lib. copy. E-mail for photo. Illustrated by the author throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. J. Ross BROWNE (illustrator). 1st Edition. Presumed First Edition. No DJ. Light wear overall; some loss of color from the covers. Some age-related tanning of the pages. Illustrated with numerous attractive engravings in black-and-white by the author. Unmarked pages. Protected with an archival wrapper. This work has been reissued many times in many formats, but nothing compares with owning a copy in its original first edition state. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Will insure at buyer's expense, if requested. Condition: Very Good.

Harper & Bros: NY 1869. Illus, 7.5 x 4.5", cloth, 535pp, EX-LIBRARY, usual markings, inner hinges cracked, loose pages, ink name on title, staining, spotting, another ink inscr. but all pp & plates present. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Browne, J. Ross (illustrator). 1st Edition. Description 1868 1ed Apache Country ARIZONA Nevada INDIANS Sonora Browne RARE Adventures J Ross Browne?s ?Adventures in the Apache Country? is a rare, 19th-century history of Arizona, Nevada, and Sonora, Mexico. focusing primarily on Native American Indian life in that region. This book is one of the very best books on the Apache tribe in Arizona, supported by Wallace who says this book was ?the first significant contribution to Arizona history, but it remains one of the best, setting a pattern for general works which concerned the new Territory? According to Field, this work ?is a truthful portraiture of the terrors which attend border life in Arizona, where one twentieth part of the population had been swept away by the incursions of the Apaches in three years.? Per Larned: ?some account of natural features is included among many adventures and personal details: one of the more interesting books of its numerous class.? BROWNE, J Ross Adventures in the Apache country : a tour through Arizona and Sonora, with notes on the silver regions of Nevada New York : Harper & Bros., 1868. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages 535, [1], 4 155 illustrations References: Larned 3395; Graff 437; Howes B 875; Field 197; Sabin 8656; Wallace, History of Arizona Territory; Provenance: Bookplate ? Rufus Kay Wyllys and Eugenia Dunsmore Wyllys Dr. Rufus Kay Wyllys (1898â??1955) was a professor of history at Arizona State College and became the head of the Social Studies department. He also authored several books including Men and Women of Arizona and Arizona, the History of a Frontier State. Handwritten ? Mrs. L. B. [Heone] Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure Green cloth Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 12.5cm).

Hardcover. Condition: G+ (Good Plus). 1st Edition. Publisher's dark green cloth with slightly rubbed gilt lettering to spine. Light edgewear and rubbing; spine ends and corners bumped and starting to fray. Binding shaken, text clean. Interior lightly toned, with scattered minor soil. B/w engravings throughout. Dark brown eps; front pastedown and ffep with small pencil scribble, light scuffing and a corner crease. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 535 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 535 pages; Covers with some staining, rubbing and minor fraying.

Hardcover. First Edition. Expertly rebound in green cloth with edges newly trimmed,g.t.s,12mo.,535pp + 4pgs ads, 155 illustrations - "Illustrated by the author" A nicely restored copy with just some faint traces of soiling & edge of c/r page reinforced (for no apparent reason)with strip of clear tape.V.Good (See Howes B875). Field 197. Graf 437. Munk, page 40.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. SCARCE FIRST EDITION in original binding. Dark red covers with Harper and Brothers' embossed initials on front and back with gilt titling on the spine; 155 illustrations - illustrated by the author; dark brown endpapers; 535[4]pp. Good+ condition with wear at extremities; spine faded; flyleaf detached but laid in; back hinge beginning to crack, but solidly intact; old dealer notations in pencil on second front endpaper. Howes #B875; Radar #518; Sabin #8656; Graff #437; Field #197. Nice collectible copy of a scarce title.

Hardcover. Small 8vo. Quarter black calf with gilt lettering and glazed marbled paper over boards. 535pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear; light even age toning; minor foxing, mainly to endpapers and preliminary leaves; ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight and attractive first British edition, with spine gilt bright. Uncommon. GRAFF 437. HOWES B 870. SABIN 8656.

BROWNE, J[ohn] Ross. Adventures in the Apache Country: A Tour Through Arizona and Sonora, With Notes on the Silver Regions of Nevada. N.Y., 1869. 1st ed. Illus. by the author. Old private ownership stamp on title page, else very good in orig. cloth. Howes B-875.

BROWNE, J. Ross. Adventures in the Apache Country: A Tour through Arizona and Sonora, with Notes on the Silver Regions of Nevada. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869. 1st ed. 535pp. Illus. Orig. cloth. Very good. HOWES B-875. "A truthful portraiture of the terrors which attend border life in Arizona, where one twentieth of the population had been swept away by the incursions of the Apaches in three years"--Field, 197.