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

Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Very Good. Burton, Richard F.. The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. 654pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt and red embossing. Book condition: Very good with rubbed, bumped and slightly chipped extremities. Cloth is frayed slightly on the corners. Front pastedown has a tear and a previous owner's bookplate. The rear hinge and endsheet are both partially split. Top edge has faint stains from moisture.

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.

The Narrative Press, 2003-06-01. Paperback. Used: Good.

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..

A M S Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: Knopf, 1963. First Borzoi Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. Stated First Borzoi Edition. FINE BOOK, WITHOUT WRITING OR NAMES, IN VERY GOOD, PRICE-CLIPPED DUST JACKET WITH SLIGHT DARKENING TO SPINE AND SMALL CHIPS AT SPINE ENDS. Edited, with and Introduction and Notes, by Fawn Brodie.

Paperback / softback. New.

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+.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

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. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The City of the Saints :Across the Rocky Mountains to California.

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

Paperback / softback. New.

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).

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