Trail to California: The overland journal of Vincent Geiger and Wakeman Bryarly (from the library of Washington Universiity historian Ralph Bieber with his name signed to ffep) by Geiger, Vincent and Wakeman Bryarly, edited by David Morris Potter - 1945

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. xiv, 266 pages, plus frontispiece and folding map at rear. Original cloth. [24.1 cm.] About very good in good only dust jacket. Cloth shows light traces of foxing at head of spine and along top edges of boards, and some minor rubbing to spine ends. Occasional and very light pencil marks in the margins, interior otherwise clean. Jacket has a few small chips, not affecting lettering, including a dime size chip to the base of the spine panel, and some tears with internal tape repairs. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SOUTHERN HISTORIAN, FLETCHER M. GREEN, on the front free endpaper. The inscription indicates he used this copy for his review of the book in "The Emory University Quarterly." [Fletcher Melvin Green (1895-1978) taught at Emory University in the early 1930's before becoming a longtime member of the history faculty at the University of North Carolina (1936-1966) and publishing a number of scholarly books.] A significant… Read More

New Haven, Etc.: Yale University Press, 1945. Edited with an introduction by David Morris Potter. [viii] 266p., slightly chipped dj. (Yale historical publications: manuscripts and edited texts, 20).