Search Results: the first emigrant train to california by bidwell john

Chico: Bidwell Mansion Assoc.. Nice clean copy. Stapled wraps. . Near Fine. Paperback. 2000.

Chico, California: Chico Advertiser. Good+. N.D.. Softcover. Stapled printed wrappers. No date, circa 1915. Some damping, creasing and toning. Pages firm. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

California State Parks, 2000. Facsimile edition, reprinted from the original publication in the Century Magazine in 1890.. Softcover. Very Good+. 8 x 10. B&W illustrations. 1I. Stapled wraps. With all the original illustrations, including a number by Remington. A nice fresh copy with firm binding and no marks. Cover faintly sunned around the edges, with minor cover wear.

Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1964. First edition thus. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn. Original plaid cloth, octavo (7 x 10.5 inches), pp 55, 32. Folding map Number 12 in the Bancroft Keepsakes series. Second part is a facsimile of Bidwell's journal

Penlitho Press, 1966-01-01. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No dustjacket as issued. 10x7x0. One of 400 copies. Minor wear & light foxing to boards. Text and images unmarked.

USA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Quarto. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975.

Palo Alto, CA: Penlitho Press. Near Fine. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in nubby beige boards with title in gilt on spine label. Wagon wheel in gilt on front cover. Housed in the original olive green envelope-wrapper. Collector's edition, limited to 400 copies. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Two tiny spots on rear endpapers. The story of the author's overland trek to California, which first appeared in Century Magazine in the early 1890's. Illustrated with Remington's art. Small 4to. 54 pp. .

Chico, California: Chico Advertiser, 1914. First Edition thus. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good/4-mil clear mylar envelope. 91 pages. Green printed stapled wrappers. Illustrated, including a small portrait of the author on the title page and three half-tone photographs. 5" x 7". First published in The Century Magazine, General Bidwell's memoir includes his participation in the first wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada into California. The General settled in Chico, California, a wealthy man. Cowan, page 52. Kurutz 55a. A cheaply made book and fragile; pages on browned newsprint; rubbed from handling; stain on rear cover; still, Very Good Plus overall, in a 4 mil clear mylar protective envelope. Always FREE SHIPPING of books via media mail to any United States address.

The Chico Advertiser, Chico, CA, no date. paperback. good condition in somewhat worh wraps. There is some water stain on the spine side of the book and the paper is browning.

Berkeley, Calif.: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1964. Fine in calico cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 10 1/4" by 7". Without a dust jacket. 55 pages followed by 32 page facsimile of Bidwell's original journal. That is followed by a fold-out map of the western United States showing the Bartleson-Bidwell Party route to California. "Number 12 in the series of keepsakes issued by The Friends Of The Bancroft Library for its members." Of special note: most of the pages in this copy remain uncut.

Chico.: Chico Advertiser., nd.. First edition. . Soft cover. . Fine copy. . Octavo. . Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Parks & Recreation, 1987. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Small Quarto. Unpaginated..

Berkeley: Friends of The Bancroft Library, 1964 Fourth edition. Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. 55pp. + 32 page facsimile of the original printing. Folding map; bibliography. Blue plaid patterned cloth, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine, uncut copy. Includes an excellent introduction and bibliography by Francis P. Farquhar, and a folding map of the route of the Bartleson-Bidwell Party. Printed by Lawton Kennedy. First published in 1842. A classic of its kind, depicting with grim realism the hazards and frustrations experienced by the early California pioneers. This edition includes a facsimile of the unique copy of the 1842 printing in the Bancroft Library..

Berkeley: The friends of the Bancroft Library, 1964. Blue & brown plaid cloth, gilt lettering to spine.