collaboration lyman (7 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Book condition is VG+. Clean pages and tight binding. Green boards are clean, bright, and straight. DJ is Fair, with edge wear and a couple of pieces missing on the spine ends. Signed by the author's son, Thomas P. Brower, on the FFEP. PON also on FFEP. A nice, clean, solid copy.

THE TRAGEDY OF NIJINSKY by Anatole Bourman in collaboration with D. Lyman; hardcover in dustjacket, stated 1st edition. illustrated. Published by Whittlesey House, New York, 1936. The Tragedy of Nijinsky is a 1936 biography by Anatole Bourman, a fellow dancer who knew Vaslav Nijinsky from their time at the Russian Imperial Ballet School, offering a personal account of Nijinsky's rise, struggles, and eventual mental breakdown due to schizophrenia. The book details Nijinsky's genius, his career with the Imperial Ballet and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and provides Bourman's unique perspective on the dancer's life, including events other biographers omitted. "some jacket wear, tear, discoloration, inside clean and tight, some foxing spots," PINKPLAS.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, xiii, 295 pgs, endpaper maps, text map, photo illustrations. Stated First Edition / First Printing. Blue, decorative cloth with blind stamped ox-drawn wagon and outriders. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Edges with minor rubbing, else near fine. Interior has inked stamp of former owner on preliminary page (A. L. Hunter), else is very clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The Battalion was comprised of Mormon soldiers and Company officers all commanded by US officers. Henry Standage was a private in Co. E. The Battalion left in 1846 from Ft. Leavenworth and marched a grueling 2100 miles to San Diego. The march also opened a southern wagon route to California. Veterans of the Battalion played significant roles in America's westward expansion in California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and other parts of the West. A complete roster is included. REFERENCES: Wagner-Camp 165 note; Rittenhouse 245.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good -. 1st American edition. 1st American edition. A Very Good copy in Very Good - dust jacket. 8vo., xx, 291 pp., illustrated with 10 b&w photographic plates. Bound in light pink cloth in light blue, photo-illustrated dust jacket. The dust jacket has edge wear, soiling and a sunned spine. Light soiling to the pink cloth. The dust jacket is now protected in a mylar sleeve.

Hb. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. Third Impression. Clean red cloth on boards with gilt titles. Spine: light bumping to head and thin sunning to foot. Edges: once dark top-edge now faded to pink; moderate foxing. Eps: light sprinkling of foxing and smudges. FrontisL b/w photo of Vaslaw Fomitch Nijinasky (as a young man). Clean content. B/w illustrations. Binding is VG+. 320p Dj: moderate soiling and rubbing. Spine: moderae sunning. Head & foot with 1cm jagged wear section mising, small tears and chips. Head & bottom edges wiith small tears and chips.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. First edition. In 1846, 500 Mormon fighting men were enlisted by the US government. They marched from the Missouri River to California to take part in the Mexican War. This is the story of their remarkable pioneering trek, as told in the diary of Henry Standage, one of their number. 295 pages with illustrations. Map endpapers. Front flap of dust jacket tipped in. Rear panel of dust jacket laid in. Bound in original dark blue cloth with illustration in blind on front cover and lettering in gilt on spine. A near fine copy, without dust jacket. A handsome copy. Book.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Based on the journal kept by Heny Standage, this book depicts the formation and journey of the Mormon Battalion from Council Bluff to California where they were disbanded following the Mexican War in 1846.The Mormon Battalion, the first and only unit in US military history to organize itself along religious lines. The battalion was among the first units to carry the flag to the Pacific Coast. The funds received by the volunteers provided the necessary capital that enabled Brigham Young to begin the exodus to Salt Lake City. Dark blue blind stamped cloth with gilt spine title. Map end papers. Lacks the DJ. Three small spots on top edge which have only faintly leaked (very minor). Internally this is a clean tight copy. Tipped in is not from the old AB that a nice copy sold for $10.00 (1964). Overall condition is very good. An important book in understanding the history of the Mormon Battalion.