GREELEY, HORACE; A D RICHARDSON; HENRY VILLARD (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1964 facsimile reprint of the 1859 broadside on age-simulated newsprint. 16" by 10.5" in baby-blue 17" by 11" red cloth backed portfolio album with paper folder and storage pocket. Pasted on the inside left is a 6 paragraph explanation of the document by Nolie Mumey. Contents crisp.

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. Original publisher's light blue paper-covered boards backed with red cloth. Gilt lettering on front cover. Boards fold in half. Light blue paper envelope containing a facsimile broadside of the Greeley Report laid in. No date, circa 1964. 11" x 16 3/4." One page, complete. Facsimile broadside is pristine, intact, and Fine. Envelope and boards are clean and intact overall. Together, they have a few faint dampstains. Front board has some rubbing and a few scratches. Minuscule age toning to front and back boards. Overall, a Very Good copy. A facsimile newspaper article containing the Greeley Report which reassured miners and prospectors to stay in the gold fields of Colorado. Nolie Mumey (1891-1984) was an American physician, author, collector, and historian based in Denver, Colorado. In an introduction printed on the inside of the front cover, Mumey writes, "This unusual document issued by a great newspaperman and signed by two other representatives of the press is historical and worthy of reproduction and preservation due to its rarity and purposeful instance. . On May 6, 1859, John H. Gregory made his great discovery of free gold at Black Hawk, Colorado . Another important factor in averting a mass abandonment of the country was the report signed by Horace Greeley, the famous editor of the New York Tribune, Henry Villard of the Cincinnati Commercial, and A. D. Richardson of the Boston Journal. These men inspected the 'Gregory Diggings' and were convinced of the reality of gold. . [Greeley] made a speech to a large audience of miners reassuring them with this statement: 'Gentlemen, I have worked with my own hands and seen with my own eyes, and the news of your rich discovery shall go over the world, as far as my paper can waft it.' The words he uttered were prophetic and helped to restore confidence in those who were in doubt, all of which resulted in the development of mines that poured out a great deal of wealth for more than a half century.".

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Portfolio 43 x 28 cm, containing lighter blue folder with facsimile of Rocky Mountain News EXTRA for June 11, 1859 with headline "Greeley's Report", in light blue paper covered boards with gilt lettering, red cloth spine. Statement by Greeley editor New York Tribune, Henry Villard of the Cincinnati Commercial, Albert D. Richardson of the Boston Journal. No Date [but 1964 by Norma L. Mumey], One page reproduction inside blue paper folder inside hard binding. Introduction printed on front paste down of outside folder. Quarter red buckram and blue boards with gilt lettering. Near fine except for light staining on front left of front cover Mumey says in his notes: "This report was signed by three important newspapermen and was published by the Rocky Mountain News as an EXTRA. It was circulated throughout the region and was copid by newspapers over the entire nation. It caused a sensation and created a mad rush across the Plains to the Gold Fields of Colorado, which continued for many years being partially interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War." 400 copies signed by Mumey. Signed by Author(s).