Search Results: the log of a forty niner journal by carolyn hale russ

B. J. Brimmer Company,, 1923-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Missing. First edition. Ex-library book with pocket and bookplate on inside front board. Minimal markings. Inside pages yellowed. Cover has rubbing and light edge wear.

B. J. Brimmer Co., Boston, 1923. Large 8vo, b&w plates, very good copy in green boards with blue, cloth spine.

Boston: B. J. Brimmer Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. A account of a voyage from Newburyport, Massachusetts to San Francisco by Richard L. Hale and subsequent adventures between 1849 and 1854. Edited from her father's manuscripts by his daughter Carolyn Hale Russ, who has supplied a foreword. With illustrations by Richard Hale, along with plates bearing photographic portraits and journal entries. --- In dark green paper-covered boards backed in navy cloth, with paper labels to cover and spine. --- Despite wear to cover edges, partial loss of spine label, prior owner's signature to front paste-down, and some discoloration to a few leaves volume remains firm and solid.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); 183 pages .

Boston: B. J. Brimmer Co., 1923. hardcover. Good. Black and white illustrations. Quarto, (approx. 6 7/8" wide by 9 3/4" tall), blue cloth spine over green boards with paper labels on top cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Top front cover corner bumpped and worn. Goldseekers taking the sea route from the east coast had to travel around Cape Horn of south American to reach California in the days before the Panama Canal. Gold Rush.

Boston: B. J. Brimmer Co.. Good. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. General moderate wear & soil, with moderate rubbing cloth at joints, and wear through to boards at lower corner tips; some toning and a bit of thumbing to prelims; foxing to plates, and some facing text pages. "Please return to . . . " note in pencil on front endpaper by Alice R. Snow of Wusthof Beach, Mass. ; Cloth back and paper over boards; spine & cover title labels; illustrated with photographs and other reproductions throughout. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 183 pages; Calling card of Mr. And Mrs. Willis Robert Russ, Jamaica Plain pasted down on front endpaper. Prospectus laid in. Hale's adventures cover a period of more than four years, and take him into the mines again and again. He describes the early methods used to discover gold, and also tells of the incalculable obstacles to prevent the "home banker" from obtaining it. The Log fairly bristles eith thrilling ventures into which… Read More

Cleveland [i.e. Boston], 1923. 183pp. plus plates. Portraits. Cloth backed boards, paper label. Ex-lib. with bookplate and stamps. Good. Adventures of the author's father in California and the Northwest from 1849 to 1854. Published by the Arthur Clark Co. HILL 748. MINTZ 598.

Boston, MA: B. J. Brimmer Company. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Text is clean. Paper covered blue cloth. Cover shows light normal wear. Dust jacket shows chipping at spine ends and tears to front/rear flaps. Date on title page matches copyright page. .

Boston, MA: B.J. Brimmer Company, 1923. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 183 pages of text. Hardcover binding in excellent condition, with a small tear and crease to the edge of page 37, and minor browning to the endpapers. The unclipped dustjacket is sunned on the spine, with minor soiling and minor rubbing to the extremities; protected in archival mylar. Contains 19 illustrations. Being a Record of Adventures by Sea and Shore to the California Gold-Fields and the Pacific Northwest, 1849-1854. Illustrated from original sketches by the author. Edited from the original manuscripts; here for the first time published. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..