Otis b tout (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Otis B. Tout, San Diego, CA, 1931. Hardcover, 429 pp. 1st edition. Brown textured embossed boards with gold blind-stamp titles on front board and spine. With black & white photo illustrations and an Index. Former property of Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Dupree with handwritten notes regarding their ownership on the first few pages. A history of the Imperial Valley in southern California, an area of desert climate and agriculture which contains the Salton Sea. It borders Mexico, and contains the towns of Brawley, Calexico, Imperial and El Centro. Fair to poor condition with front board very loose, exposing the backstrip and webbing. With edge wear and some scratches to the boards An uncommon California local history book, in need of some shoring up.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth, gilt title, very good plus beautiful dust jacket, very good internally, rear hinge cracked, inscribed by author 12/2/28 Prescott, AZ. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Signed, inscribed, and dated on the ffep by the author and presumably his spouse, as follows: "To Geo Scott/With best wishes/Otis B & Estella M. Tout/San Diego Nov 53/". Volume itself has bright red covers with sharp gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. 359 pages. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality cover. Just the slightest touch of wear at the head and tail of the spine and some age toning on some pages, due to less than high quality paper. All in all, a remarkably well preserved work; available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box. Signed By the Author.…

Condición: Collectible. FIRST. FINE/nFINE. As new except for brief neat inscription on ffep. Red cloth boards, tight binding, unread. BRIGHT gold tiling on front cover and spine. Full jacket in BRODART. One of the earliest novels built from actual newspaper stories, published in 1928, about the efforts and behind rthe scenes bargaining to begin building the Boulder Dam, to electrify Califoirnia and provide water resources to make the California Imperial Valley the productive farming community of the USA west coast and the whole country. A "Paula Bernie" novel . .an investigative reporter. Scarce and COLLECTIBLE. [B37].…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Dust Jacket. 427 pages. 1990 reprint. Ex-library marks, light discoloring and wear; a sound binding; good shape otherwise. Quantity Available: 1. Category: American History; ISBN: 0962713600. ISBN/EAN: 9780962713606. Inventory No: 236424.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. First Edition First Printing. Red/gilt cloth, light stain covers. Foreword by Author. Christmas 1928 gift inscription, fep. 359 pgs. Rare. Owner's Name.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. TIPPED IN BEFORE THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER IS AN ALS dated Dec 15 -43 on Otis B. and Estella M, Tout letterhead addressed to "Fred and Family" and signed by both Touts. ALSO LAID IN is a Christmas card from the Touts hand dated "Dec '43" which has on it a color photo of the Touts sitting in front of their fireplace. 4to. (28 cm.) 429p, Profusely (!!) illustrated with black and white captioned photos, including many of the pioneers and early important people in the Imperial Valley, as well as of the author and his wife. Index to Subjects, Index to Illustrations and Index to Names. Brown Buckram blocked in triple blind with the title in raised gilt letters on a gilt cartouche on the front cover and with the title similarly displayed on the spine. Wear to extremities with corners just worn through, top and bottom of spine starting to fray, gilt somewhat dulled, small hole in spine, rubbing along the gutters of the covers, tipped and laid in items in near fine condition, some tape stains on the front pastedown, all photos in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket, perhaps as issued. All in all in extraordinarily fine condition for this heavy book with coated paper stock now nearly a hundred years old. A "must have" for any collector of Imperial Valley books and a rare find with the included ephemera. [Please note: Extra postage may be required for this large heavy volume with coated paper stock. No shipment outside the USA.].…

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. First edition. Sm. quarto. 11 x 8 1/4" 429pp. incl. index and blank pages for "Memo". Illustrated throughout from b&w photographs. Embossed leather-like cloth. Re-spined preserving original spine cloth, with new endpapers. Corners lightly rubbed. Nice solid clean copy.…

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 442. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1931 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 442.…