waterman l ormsby (47 resultados)

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Condición: acceptable. Cover image may vary. Cover is worn. Pages are sunned. Item has staining and a personal inscription. Paperback.

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Condición: good. A book that has been read but is in overall good condition. Very minimal wear damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no major holes or tears. The dust jacket if applicable may not be included. Binding may have minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing. May have minimal pencil underlining and or highlighting of text and possible small amounts of writing. No missing pages. May have some light marks on the page edges or a remainder mark. May have pale yellow yellowed pages. Fast Shipping, safe and secure mailers. Stock photo used.

Condición: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: good. This book is in good condition. The cover has minor creases or bends. The binding is tight and pages are intact. Some pages may have writing or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near-fine condition hardcover book, Centennial Printing, 1955. No dustjacket.

paperback. Condición: Good. Ships quickly. Mild to moderate shelf/reading wear. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Brown cloth boards in mylar protected dust jacket. Tables, maps, appendix and index. 178 pages. FINE in VERY GOOD dust jacket.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press, 1991. Softcover illustrated with a route map and folding plate of documents. Very good condition with light edge rubbing, firm binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paper Back. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Paperback. 179pp. including index; SC white w/brown; slight rub w/clean, tight pgs. First-hand account by the sole passenger of the first Butterfield Overland Mail stage from St. Louis to San Francisco. 9 x 6" ISBN: 0873280954.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Used - Very Good. Clean and bright. Possible light wear. No stamps or interior markings.

Paperback. Light edge-wear, otherwise very good. xv + 179pp.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, 7th Printing (1972). Published by The Huntington Library, 1942. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with green ink stain on vertical page ends and pages. Dust jacket is very good with price clipped, green stain to front and back panels and light shelf/edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Paperback; good in scratched and creased card covers.; A classic first-hand account of a historic overland journey. Waterman L. Ormsby was a reporter who, in 1858, crossed the western states as a sole through passenger of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage on its first trip from St. Louis to San Francisco. +xvpp.; 179 pages.

Fifth Printing; Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. Hardcover is wheat colored with dark brown lettering on spine. Red and white monochrome maps on endpapers. Pages are clean and tight; almost crisp, as if never used. Has some b/w or red/white monochrome drawings. The frontispiece is a fold out of 'Special Instructions.' by John Butterfield, President on one side; reverse side has the mail schedule between St. Louis, MO/Memphis, TN and San Francisco, CA; this is a folded section, still pristine. Originally published in 1942, this is the 5th printing from 1962; a photographic facsimile of the private press of C. F. Braun & Co. , Alhambra, CA. Sections are Ormsby's Articles: Tipton, MO; Near Red River, Indian Territory; Near Fort Belknap, TX; Near El Paso, TX; Tucson, AZ; two from San Francisco, CA; St. Louis, MO; an appendix: Fort Smith to Memphis; index. Absolutely fascinating insights into pre-Civil War travel by pioneers and adventurers in the mid 19th century; their adventures, sights, insights, peoples encountered, etc. ; B&W Illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2; 179 pages; Hardcover has light bumping and shelf wear. DJ is quite beat up; scuffing, rubbing, bumping, small tears and chips; smudging on front, tears; front flap totally separated from DJ, but all present; in a mylar cover. 5th printing from 1962.

Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Third Printing. Reissue. xv, 179pp, folding schedule and instructions, endpaper maps. Cloth boards, black spine titles. Written by the only through passenger on the first wesbound stage, Waterman L Ormsby, correspondent of the New York Herald. Ormsby's series of eight articles supply a graphic picture of the country through which he passed from St Louis to San Francisco in 1858. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardbound facsimle of 1942 publication ; clean and unmarked and binding tight and square ; ; 8vo; 179 pages.

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Paperback. Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Ormsby's original 1858 articles for the New York Herald are reprinted here, a full and accurate account of being a passenger on the first westbound stage. Mapped endpapers. Tan cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Fragile paper dust jacket with 1" closed tears at top and bottom, 1/8" piece missing at top of spine.

Hardcover. Condición: near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Plus. Second Printing. 1954 Second Printing Stated, Book is near Fine, very clean light olive cloth with black title to spine, tight and square with sharp corners, previous owner name twice on ffep, map end papers, 179 pages with two sided fold out frontispiece, one side is a Special Instructions document, verso is a time schedule. Detailed narrative of the overland mail service, great detail of the westbound passenger stage experience and heroic efforts Quality Huntington Library publication. Jacket is at least Very Good Plus or better, nice, price clipped, shows nicely in a new mylar sleeve. Very clean and most presentable edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. First edition thus, fine in a very good dust jacket. The jacket has slight loss at edges and corners, and the spine is slightly sunned. This edition edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum. Includes a folded facsimile of the original schedule as a frontispiece, map endpapers, Appendix, and an Index; 179 pages.

Signed and inscribed by the editor, Lyle H. Wright. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), map illustrated endpapers, xv, 179 pp. Near Fine. From Introduction: Contemporary accounts of travel on the Overland Mail Company's stage line during the years 1858 to 1861, when it was operating between St. Louis and Memphis, the two eastern terminals, and San Francisco, are all too few. The best narrative consists of a series of eight articles by Waterman L. Ornsby, published in six numbers of the New York Herald at intervals from September 26 to November 19, 1858. Ormsby, a special correspondent of the Herald, was othe only through passenger on the first westbound stage. His articles, here reprinted, supply a graphic picture of the country through which he passed from St. Louis ot San Francisco. They furnish a full and accurate account of the controversy that raged over the various proposed transcontinental routes for a mail-and-passenger stage line, which had been authorized by an act of Congress in March, 1857. They also give the Postmaster-General's reasons for selecting the "thirty-second parallel route," with an eastern bifurcation, and awarding the contract to John Butterfield and his associates. Ormsby says in his first article that, "in view of the importance of this enterprise at this time, and the bearing which it has upon the future destinies of this country, I propose to give you a condensed account of the origin and history of the contract and the claims of the competing routes." From the information presented concerning the different routes, it is evident that, before his departure from New York, he had made an exhaustive study of the overland project. The fact that he traveled a considerable distance on the stage with John Butterfield, president of the Overland Mail Company, lends authority to his statements about the company. The articles covering the trip, written for the most part en route, furnish a narrative of stagecoach travel as told by an acute observer, who appreciated the dangers of such a journey without dramatizing them. The series as a whole makes an important contribution to the annals of transportation in the United States. Western Americana, American West, Travel, U. S. History, United States History, American History, Americana, U.S.-iana bxsli.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good+. xv + 179pp, folding plate, maps on endpapers, 1 xlib stamp, bound in grey cloth with dustwrapper. repaired along top; Quarto.

Paperback.