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[Manuscript journal of a trip from Colorado to California.]

[Manuscript journal of a trip from Colorado to California.] by Castello, Mrs. [Sarah Elizabeth Shockey]

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Seller: James Arsenault & Company
Title
[Manuscript journal of a trip from Colorado to California.]
Author
Castello, Mrs. [Sarah Elizabeth Shockey]
Seller
James Arsenault & Company (United States)
Description
July 19–20, 1862; September 12–25, 1862. 24mo (5.625” x 3.5”). 9 pp. in pencil and ink, disbound from larger volume and lacking the pages covering late July and August. CONDITION: Very good. A brief but informative record of a young woman’s journey to California with her mother and new husband during the Civil War, including a striking postscript written forty-four years later. Sarah Elizabeth Shockey was born in Ohio in 1843, and married James H. Castello (1837–1924) in Denver, Colorado in January of 1862. That July the young couple set out for California, along with Sarah’s mother and several others. This diary records Sarah’s experience of the trip, including notable sightings (wildlife, “Indians,” government freight wagons, etc.), rest- and campsites, livestock problems, and toll bridges, but also occasionally outlining domestic camp labor—“Laid by most all day took the things out of the trunk and aired them; put out the beds and bed clothes”—and frequently detailing food, or, at times, a lack thereof: 20 July: “saw 3 antelopes…at little Thompson Gentleman there gave us an antelope ham.” n.d., [July]: “reached Sand spring about 2 oClock in the morning no feed nor wood nor scarc[e]ly any water there did not get any breakfast.” 14 September: “Traveled 3 or 4 miles camped close to Desert station did not get any supper.” 17 September: “bought some fresh beef tomatoes cabbage peaches A lady gave Mother a nice pear.” 24 September: “Stopped at a farm-house and bought some cabbage and tomatoes and grapes lady gave us a few grapes and fresh figs.” 18 September: “A gentleman made us a present of some beautiful fresh grapes…stopped in Steamboat valley at the browns farm…little girl gave us a watermelon cooked our cabbage bought some potatoes and mutton sold our chair for a dollar.” The first day of the journey led Castello and her party from Denver across Dry Creek, Rock Creek, and Coal Creek, ending with a mosquito-filled night encamped at Boulder Creek. Over the course of the ensuing days they camp or “noon” at Cold Spring Road (“great many Indians there”) and Sand spring, in Colorado. When the narrative resumes in early September, the first locations mentioned are “Carson Sink” and “Desert station” in Nevada (both stops on the Pony Express until its closure the previous October). On September 17th they reach Virginia City, and the remaining entries record their passage through “Steamboat valley,” entering the Sierra Nevada Mountains and camping in “Dog valley” (“timber very large”), “the halfway station between Virginia City and Marysville” (where they meet “quite a number of freight teams also a couple of pack trains”), “Truckee lake” (now Donner Lake), “Eureka” (“bought some fresh beef and potatoes put the stock in an inclosure been rich mines there”), and “Nevada” (i.e., Nevada City: “a beautiful place the streets nice and clean so many beautiful flowers in the yards…Mr. Dailey bought a muskmelon”). On September 25th they camp “about a mile from the city of Sacramento.” The Castellos moved to Elk Grove in 1866, where they farmed and James worked as a blacksmith. They had seven children. The final entry in the diary, dated September 25th, 1906 from Elk Grove, reads: “44 years after the above was written, am still able to cook for my family.” An evocative record of a woman’s overland journey from Colorado to California.
Two Plays for Dancers

Two Plays for Dancers by Yeats, William Butler

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Title
Two Plays for Dancers
Author
Yeats, William Butler
Seller
James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Publisher's linen-backed blue boards, titled in black on front cover, paper spine label. Fine in glassine dust-jacket. Bookplate
Description
Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1919. First edition, one of 400 copies. Woodcut title device by T. Sturge Moore. [iv], 38, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's linen-backed blue boards, titled in black on front cover, paper spine label. Fine in glassine dust-jacket. Bookplate after Jack Yeats drawing. First edition, one of 400 copies. Woodcut title device by T. Sturge Moore. [iv], 38, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wade 123; Miller 28
Park City

Park City by Baltz, Lewis

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Park City
Author
Baltz, Lewis
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Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
Millerton, NY: Aperture, Inc, 1980. First Edition. 246pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Brown cloth with the title in black on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Gentle rubbing to extremities of jacket. 102 full-page black and white views of Park City taken during a series of trips by Baltz in 1978 and 1979, that shows the area at its nadir, as it was transitioning from a dying mining town, into what it would become: a year-round destination. Lewis Baltz (1945-2014) was one of the most prominent representatives of the New Topographics movement, which was seminal to the development of conceptual photography.
A Study of The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Poet, Printer, Prophet

A Study of The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Poet, Printer, Prophet by [ART][ESOTERICA] KEYNES, Geoffrey

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A Study of The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Poet, Printer, Prophet
Author
[ART][ESOTERICA] KEYNES, Geoffrey
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: The Orion Press, with The Trianon Press of Paris, 1964. First Edition. Quarto. 31cm. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 104pp. 59 plates. A little light wear to the extremities of the cloth, strong and solid; internally clean and fresh; in a clean, bright pictorial dustjacket with some light soiling to the white portions, toning to the spine, and some shallow wear to the edges, the original price on the inside front flap has been struck out in pen and overwritten. A very good, clean copy. A lavishly produced examination of Blake's artworks, reproduced to a high standard and featuring elements from his best known works, including "Songs of Innocence and Experience", "The Book of Urizen", and "Visions of The Daughters of Albion
La Belle O'Morphi

La Belle O'Morphi by de Heriz, Patrick

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La Belle O'Morphi
Author
de Heriz, Patrick
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrations by Francois Boucher. Limited to 750 copies. Very Good. Red and blue cloth on the boards, rubbed at the edges and joints, gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, gilt top edge, former owner's bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise.
Footprints on Sand; A Literary Sampler

Footprints on Sand; A Literary Sampler by de Camp, L. Sprague and Catherine Crook

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Footprints on Sand; A Literary Sampler
Author
de Camp, L. Sprague and Catherine Crook
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780911682250
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Illustrated by C.H. Burnett. Near Fine in Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Purple cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. This copy comes from the collection of Advent co-founder Jon Stopa.
His Dark Materials Box Set: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass

His Dark Materials Box Set: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass by Pullman, Philip

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Title
His Dark Materials Box Set: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
Author
Pullman, Philip
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780440419518
Condition
Fine
Description
Yearling, 2003. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Sealed in the publisher's shrink wrap. Fine in an about Fine slipcase, some bumps to the corners. Books square, presumably firmly bound and clean internally. A complete set of Pullman's controversial His Dark Materials trilogy, the first novel of which was adapted into a 2007 film starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, and Ian McKellen.
The Little Boys and Their Boats

The Little Boys and Their Boats by Stephen Bone and Mary Adshead

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The Little Boys and Their Boats
Author
Stephen Bone and Mary Adshead
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: Dent, 1953. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Ruse mark from paperclip on front board, pastedown and endpaper, else a very good hardback in a tanned ajcket.
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The Soviet Economic Offensive. A Report on Ruble Diplomacy by Scott, John

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The Soviet Economic Offensive. A Report on Ruble Diplomacy
Author
Scott, John
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Time Inc., 1961. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition; 8 3/4" x 11"; pp. [2], 3-138 including text to first and last page; original stiff red pictorial wraps; plastic comb spine; minor wear (mostly slight rubbing to edges of covers and a faint crease line to lower back corner); mimeographed text; very good or better. An interesting report -ordered by and delivered to the publisher of Time, the Weekly Newsmagazine, on the Soviet political behavior and their economic offensive in the early '60s.

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