Skip to content

Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Subtotal: $475.00
Shipping: $11.00
$0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $486.00
2 - 6 days
2 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • Paypal
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Please select your payment method from the following list:
Click the button to checkout with PayPal.
You will be charged $486.00 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal: $475.00
Shipping: $11.00
: $0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $486.00

You are about to purchase:

Sir Archibald

Sir Archibald by Wolo (Wolff von Falkenstein)

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $8.00
Details
$450.00
( US$)
Seller: Thorn Books
Title
Sir Archibald
Author
Wolo (Wolff von Falkenstein)
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: WIlliam Morrow and Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Thin folio. (40)pp. Paper over boards printed in full color. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wolo in monochrome and occasionally full color. This is a very good, bright copy with only a trace of wear at edges and corners. The dustwrapper is rubbed at the edges lacks two small pieces, else is in very good condition. It is not price-clipped. With a full page full color dedication on the front blank featuring the animal king. Wolo (Baron Wolff von Falkenstein) was a refugee from Nazi Germany who took up residence in San Francisco where he worked for the Chronicle and developed his superb artistic ability. .
Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West

Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West by Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo

2 to 8 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $3.00
Details
$25.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books
Title
Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West
Author
Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo
Seller
Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. First Edition. 408pp. Quarto [26 cm] Rust cloth with the title silver stamped on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. In Long Day's Journey Carlos Schwantes gathers historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. He traces the rapidly evolving saga of miners and settlers struggling to get from here to there in the days before railroads reached the West, trying to establish methods of transportation and communication between the eastern United States and the new territories that became Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming-first by sea, around continents, then by land and water routes across America. Many of the enduring images and myths of the West derive from this era: the Pony Express, mule trains and plodding ox-team freighters, the picturesque side-wheelers and stern-wheelers that churned along the rivers, the colorful Concord stagecoaches drawn by four or six jingling, fleet horses. Schwantes describes in detail the technology of preindustrial modes of transportation. He explains the economics that linked the birth and death of western towns and cities, the business history of entrepreneurs and stagecoach and steamboat companies, and the challenges facing passengers and employees on the stages and steamers of the northern West. Integrating more than 200 historical photographs and other illustrations with vivid contemporary accounts, Schwantes presents a fascinating history of Americans forging the first working connections between the West and the rest of America.

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.