2007, ISBN: 9781432692483

Paperback, Hardcover, First edition

Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2003. Volume has brown cloth covers with gold lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality cover. 270 pages. The two defining monments of Western coalfield labor relations have been massacres: Wyoming's Rock Springs Massacre of 1885 and Colorado's Ludlow Massacre of 1914. In this book the author places these deadly conflicts and strikes in the context of the Western coal industry from its inception in 1868 to the age of maturity in the early twentieth century. The result is the first book-length study of the emergence of coalfield labor relations and a general overview of the role of coal mining in the American West. A very nice copy.. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine., University Press of Colorado, 2003, San Francisco, CA: California Miners' Association, 1899. Hardcover. Poor+/None. Inscribed. Three quarter dark brown leather with maroon pebbled cloth; leather significantly worn and rubbed through at corners with backstrip almost entirely chipped away. Rear board off at pg. 46 of terminal ads. Ex-libris of the Wyoming Historical and Genealogical Society: the front pastedown bears their bookplate and random interior pages their circular stamp. Inscribed on ffep, 'For the Library, Wyoming Historical and Geological Soc. Compliments of the Compiler and Author Edward H. Benjamin, EM.' Otherwise unmarked, i.e. no marginalia. Five fold-out tables and maps are all intact and sharp, except one large map is split at crease. Each chapter is an article by different authors. Contents (in rear) include: 8vo. BOOK INFO: Includes index. 48 pp. of terminal ads with handsome illustrations of equipment like engines and boilers, and of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The Mother Lode of California; Electric Power on the Pacific Coast; Notes on Dredging for Gold; The Use of Machine Drills in Stoping; A New Form of Scorifier; Mining in Tuolumne County; Mariposa County's Mineral Wealth; The Evans Hydraulic Gravel Elevator; A Massive Bridge Pier of Unique Construction; Heat Insulation/Cat-Tail Fibre. Electric power; mining; gold dredging; stoping; scorifier; Tuolumne County; Mariposa County; Evans Hydraulic Gravel Elevator; Cat-Tail Fibre, California Miners' Association, 1899, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-25. Paperback. Used:Good., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-25

2007, ISBN: 9781432692483

Utica, N.Y.: T.J. Griffiths, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo size, 456 pp. Full title page: "Beyond the West; Containing An Account of Two Years' Travel in That Other Half of Our Great Continent Far Beyond The Old West, On the Plains, In the Rocky Mountains, and Picturesque Parks of Colorado, Also, Characteristic Features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Eastern and Western Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and the Sunset Land, California The End of The West. Its Present Condition, People, Resources, Soil, Climate, Mountain Ranges, Valleys, Deserts, Mormons, Great Salt Lake, and Other Inland Waters, The Great Continental Railroad, Together With The Remarkable Mineral Deposits, and Most Wonderful Natural Scenery in the World, Both Entertaining and Instructive." With the First Transcontinental Railroad having been completed just a year prior, the West was now open and many traveled the route, bringing back tales to the general public of the wonders of the largely hitherto unexplored part of the United States. ___DESCRIPTION: Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front with a small vignette of a setting sun, gilt lettering on the spine with a small pictorial lion against a setting sun, blind-embossing on both boards, brown coated endpapers, pictorial title page of a "View of the Pacific Railroad", with five other woodcut illustrations throughout. Small Octavo size, (i-iii), iv-xii, (13), 14-444. ___CONDITION: Overall in very good condition, with a strong, square text block, solid hinges, and entirely free of prior owner markings; there is some overall soiling to the binding, rubbing to the corners, head and tail of the spine, a bit of the brown coating has rubbed off to the bottom corner of the front free endpaper, and some old dampstaining to the preliminaries, not affecting any text. ___CITATION: Wright-Howes P 379. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply, please contact seller for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help., T.J. Griffiths, 1870, 2007-06-25. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!, 2007-06-25

ISBN: 9781432692483

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ISBN: 1432692488

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2007, ISBN: 9781432692483

2007-06-25. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!, 2007-06-25