Published by Dial Press, NY, 1982
Seller: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: VG. 1st Printing. Stated first printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A newspaper clipping reviewing the book is pasted on the front fly. Bart h signed and inscribed the book around this clipping. Mild bumps to th e corners. The dust jacket is mildly dust soiled and bumped at its cor ners.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 220 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: Fine/Very Good (lightly soiled at back, un mylar long-term). Flat signed by author at ffep. 1st/First Ed., 1st/First Printing. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA. Signed by Author(s).
Seller: Booked Experiences Bookstore, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. pgs.374 with index clean tight copy. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Privately published by Albert A. Bieber . C. Reining, Printer, West Hoboken, NJ, 1915
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Signed
First separate edition. One of 65 signed copies. Printed on pink paper, folding into publisher's pink wrappers, the rear wrapper signed by Bieber. Unfolds to 13-1/4x8-1/4 inches. Among the treasures at the Bancroft Library is the original diary of Patrick Breen, one of few survivors of the infamous Donner Party, the group of California pioneers trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47 who resorted to cannibalism to survive. Of the 87 people who entered the Wasatch Mountains, only 48 survived. Much of the present day knowledge of the Donner Party is known from the Breen diary, which was originally recovered by rescuer George McKinstry Jr. The news of the Party was an instant sensation, and evidently seeking to capitalize on the notoriety, McKinstry published extracts from the diary in several newspapers. In 1871 the McKinstry gave the diary to Hubert H. Bancroft. The present item, rarely found in its original wrappers and binding, was published by bookseller Albert A. Bieber and stated as the first separate edition of any party of the diary. It comprises chilling extracts from Nov. 20 1846 to March 1, 1847. Stitched into publisher's green cloth with printed label on the upper cover Printed on pink paper, folding into publisher's pink wrappers, the rear wrapper signed by Bieber. Unfolds to 13-1/4x8-1/4 inches First separate edition. One of 65 signed copies. Signed.