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Yale Univ Press, 1945. Book. Near Fine. Green Cloth. 1st Edition. First edition, 1945, Yale University Press. Near fine green cloth with gold stamped spine. Very minor wear to extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to endpaper. Wheat 80, Kurutz 265, Mintz 173, Mattes 451..

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. . Cloth. About Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in green cloth w/gold spine titles. About Fine book in Very Good unclipped DJ, now in clear protective cover. Bookplate front pastedown, else Fine and unmarked; jacket edgeworn w/chipped crown. xii, 266 inc. textual footnotes, Appendix A-C, Bibliography, Index.

New Have, 1945. 266pp. Folding map. Portrait. Cloth. Very good. In dust jacket with several small tears and chips. Edited by David M. Potter. Bryarly and Geiger were members of an organized emigrant group called the Charleston Company. They went overland to the California gold fields in 1849, and theirs is an interesting and valuable narrative. MINTZ 173. PAHER 668. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 80. KURUTZ 265.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. xii; 266. Frontispiece. Bibliography. Appendices. Index. Foldout map. Bound in light green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Previous ownerís name in ink ffep, chip out of head of dust jacket spine (see photo). In sum, an attractive copy of the first edition, presented here with scholarly addenda. WHEAT, Gold Rush 80: "Interesting narrative edited by David M. Potter, who discusses the routes to California;" cited in Plains and Rockies, 200.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. xiv, 266 pages, plus frontispiece and folding map at rear. Original cloth. [24.1 cm.] About very good in good only dust jacket. Cloth shows light traces of foxing at head of spine and along top edges of boards, and some minor rubbing to spine ends. Occasional and very light pencil marks in the margins, interior otherwise clean. Jacket has a few small chips, not affecting lettering, including a dime size chip to the base of the spine panel, and some tears with internal tape repairs. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SOUTHERN HISTORIAN, FLETCHER M. GREEN, on the front free endpaper. The inscription indicates he used this copy for his review of the book in "The Emory University Quarterly." [Fletcher Melvin Green (1895-1978) taught at Emory University in the early 1930's before becoming a longtime member of the history faculty at the University of North Carolina (1936-1966) and publishing a number of scholarly books.] A significant… Read More

New Haven, Etc.: Yale University Press, 1945. Edited with an introduction by David Morris Potter. [viii] 266p., slightly chipped dj. (Yale historical publications: manuscripts and edited texts, 20).

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. First Edition. First Printing Very good+ in light green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small octavo of 9 1/4 by 6 inches with light rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the cloth over the tips of the boards. There is modest wear to the fore edge of the fold-out map. Without a dust jacket. 266 pages including an index, a fold-out map, bibliography, appendices and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Bryarly and the aforesaid map. Volume XX of the Yale Historical Publications Manuscripts And Edited Texts. (Kurutz, 265; Wheat, Books of the Gold Rush, 80)

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945 First edition. Edited and with an introduction by David Morris Potter. xii, [2], 266pp. Portrait, folding map of route. Appendices, bibliography, notes, index. Green cloth. A fine copy with lightly worn dust jacket. A diary kept by two members of the Charleston, Virginia, Mining Company, both of whom were veterans of the Mexican War. Geiger began the journal on May 10, 1849 and maintained it until June 23. Bryarly continued to record their journey until August 30, 1849, when they arrived at Johnson's Ranch. [Kurutz: 265]. The appendices include the constitution of the Charleston, Virginia, Mining Company, a roster of members, etc. [Kurutz: 265; Mattes: 451; Mintz: 173; Rocq: 15816; Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush: 80]..

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. 1st. Hardcover. Front hinge cracked, John Weld newspaper review of the book laid in, Very Good copy. Octavo; xiii, 266 pages. Annotated by Professor Bieber to compare/contrast with the account of fellow traveller, Benjamin Hoffman, whose diary is the only other known diary of the Charlestown Company. Kurutz 265.