Search Results: the city of the saints and by burton richard f

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Some shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. The dust jacket has some small chips and tears to the edges.; 654 pages .

Torrington, Wyoming, U.S.A.: Narrative Pr, 2003. A beautiful book: glossy wraps; 512 pages; very solid binding; no internal marks; not a remainder; not an ex-library book; no chips or tears.. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Santa Barbara, California: The Narrative Press , 2003. As New condition. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Flat spine. No creases. Fresh and crisp, obviously never read. 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. Trade paperback. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. A few illustrations. Author's Preface. Appendix. Chapter Notes. Original pictorial wraps. This edition was published at $28.95. See: Penzer pp.68-69. Casada 28. Cowan p.87. Graff 512. Howes B1033. Sabin 9497. Wagner-Camp-Becker 370: "Sir Richard departed from Saint Joseph on August 7, 1860, and arrived at Salt Lake City on August 25. After a stay of about one month in Utah, he continued on to California, stopping briefly at Carson City and Virginia City along the way. Burton was very interested in the Mormons and wrote about them sympathetically. The appendix of the book contains a number of Mormon documents and a Mormon chronology; and the footnotes include an… Read More

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Torrington, Wyoming: The Narrative Press, LLC, 2003. Book. New. Soft cover. Reprint Edition. Tradepaper. N/none, pb, 512pgs. Perfect bound, color illustrated stiff paper wraps with black and yellow colored text on upper and gold text on spine; slight edge wear; no chips or tears. Interior pages clean, unmarked. Binding is tight..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Book. VG-. Hard Cover (x-library). 1st Printing. Thick Large Octavo. 654pp + index. Ex-library with usual markings and labels. Dust jacket in plastic sleeve, taped to boards. Card pocket rear. Light tape stains on end papers. Inside edges of flyleaves trimmed, clear of text..

USA: Knopf, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. Some foxing and edge wear to jacket. Slight browning to jacket spine. Dust jacket is now preserved in a new mylar sleeve. Shipped from The Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963 F-/VG+. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt, fore-edge uncut (slightly rubbed, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, edges a little rubbed with trifling wear, discrete tape strengthening to spine, faint ink number on spine, mostly erased); pp. xlvi, 654, xxiv, with 18 illustrations & 3 maps. Heavy item (1.5kg), additional postage may be required. A near fine copy. One of a number of copies of the American edition issued to British booksellers with an explanatory slip tipped to half-title.. First Thus. Hard Cover. F-/VG+.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Knopf, 1963. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Edited with an introduction & notes by Fawn Brodie. First Knopf edition. Burton came to the US in 1860, spending about 100 days in the west, and published this book in England in 1861. Blue cloth boards with red design and gold titles. Part of the red top edges have light speckling. Dust jacket, with $8.50 price intact on flap, is sun darkened on spine and at top of rear panel. A 1/4" tear at top of spine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. By the time Burton travelled across the American West he had already explored Arabia in disguise and searched for the source of the Nile with John Hanning Speke.Burton used his excellent eye to provide one of the best contemporary accounts of the Later Day Saints. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Borzoi Edition (stated). Edited, with Notes, by Fawn Brodie. Dark blue cloth binding with decorative stamping in red on the front cover and spine; titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; Introduction and Note, xliv; 654 pages (includes five Appendices); with Index, xxii. Facsimile of the 1861 Title Page, Burton's Preface; twenty-two illustrations from the 1861 edition. Hints only of rub to corners; some spotting to the red topstain and the fore-edge. Else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped, but Good only, with chips to the top of the spine, edge of the front flap and corners. The rear flap is separated but present, now held in place with the archival plastic… Read More

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1963. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. blue, dec. cloth. gilt and dec. spine, xliv, 654, xxii pages. illustrated.( 22 illusts from the Amer. edit. of 1861), maps, facsimilies, light edge wear, spine of d.j toned, spine ends of d.j chipped, in protective mylar jacket, The famous explorers absorbing account of his overland journey across the American West in 1860 and his visit to the home of the Mormons. Size: 8 vo, (25 cm).

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

1963: ALFRED A. KNOPF. THIS FIRST THUS EDITION PUBLISHED BY KNOFT (FIRST BORZOI EDITION) IS VG BOUND IN CLEAN BLUE CLOTH WITH BRIGHT GILT TITLES TO SPINE AND DECORATIVE RED ABSTRACT PATTERN TO LOWER SPINE AND BOTH BOARDS.EDITED BY FAWN M. BRODIE, WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES TO THE TEXT. SHE ASSERTS, IN HER INTRODUCTION, THAT THIS IS THE BEST BOOK ON THE MORMONS PUBLISHED IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. (A LABEL FROM PUBLISHED EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE OF LONDON HAS BEEN STUCK OVER THE KNOPF LABEL ON TITLE PAGE. THE TITLE PAGE OF THE 1861 EDITION IS REPRODUCED.) XL1V/654pp WITH PREFACE, 13 CHAPTERS, 21 ILLUSTRATIONS, CONCLUSION, APPENDICES AND INDEX. A HANDSOME VOLUME! CONDITION VG. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus Edition. 1963.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. xliv, [2], 654, xxii pp, [2]. Original publisher's navy cloth, decorated in red, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper sunned. Book-label of publishers Eyre & Spottiswoode pasted over imprint, with a typed note tipped-in to half-title explaining that a copy of the American edition is being supplied as the British edition 'has been exhausted'. A new and revised edition of Richard Francis Burton's (1821-1890) 1861 account of his travels in the American west, and in particular his visit to Salt Lake City, where he remained for nearly a month, noting Mormon institutions and enjoying a lengthy interview with the Mormon prophet, Brigham Young. . First Borzoi edition. 8vo.

The Narrative Press, 2003-06-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 8vo. modern red leatherette gilt (prev. owner's blind stamp to title page, upper forecorner of p.207/208 torn with loss, outer leaves a little browned, occasional grubby mark, else very clean & bright); pp. xii, 707 (last colophon), with tissue-guarded frontispiece, 8 plates, 8 text figures & tables, plus 4 maps (on 2 foldouts). Heavy item (1.3 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. VG.

Longmans, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861. Hardcover. Acceptable. London, 1861; green cloth covered boards; corners heavily bumped with board exposed; spine edges bumped; smudges on covers; edges scuffed; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Ex-Library with typical stamps and markings; edges chipped; fold-out map and chart present; Interior is clean and unmarked; 707 pages.

London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts. Fair with no dust jacket. 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Rebound in utilitarian library binding, blue cloth boards with black cloth spine. Page edges dyed blue. Library stamps and markings. Library rubber stamps on several leaves and plates. This copy is lacking the folding sheet of maps and the frontispiece. The half-title leaf is also lacking. All other illustrations present, including the folding plan of Salt Lake City. One text leaf has a 40mm tear, without loss (pp.387-8). Foxing to the title leaf. ; (iii)-x, [2], 707, [1] pages + 8 plates ( 1 folding). Lacking the frontispiece and the 3 maps on 1 folding sheet. Rebound. Page dimensions: 211 x 130mm. ; 8vo .