Campaigns in the West, 1856-1861: The Journal and Letters of Colonel John Van Deusen Du Bois, with Pencil Sketches by Joseph Heger

John Van Deusen Du Bois; George P. Hammond (ed.)

Published by Arizona Pioneers Historical Society, Tucson, AZ, 1949

About this Item

[xiii], 120, [4] pp. plus 16 photogravure illustrations (several full-page) and one fold-out map; folio, quarter burgundy leather, black leather spine label with gilt title, patterned paper sides, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, marginal notes printed in red. No. 222 of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Signed by editor George P. Hammond on the limitation page. With the bookplate of James Strohn Copley (1916-1973), the journalist, newspaperman, and publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune (his sale, Sotheby's, June 17, 2010, lot 235). Good copy; contents and fold-out map are fine, hinges and backstrip rubbed, with a one-inch piece chipped off the head of the backstrip and a half inch off the foot; tips a litle rubbed. Magee and Magee 481.

Seller Inventory # 4913

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Campaigns in the West, 1856-1861: The Journal and Letters of Colonel John Van Deusen Du Bois, with Pencil Sketches by Joseph Heger
• Publisher: Arizona Pioneers Historical Society, Tucson, AZ
• Publication Date: 1949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Private press and modern fine printing