The First Hundred Years: An Informal History of Denver and the Rocky Mountain News by Robert L. Perkin - 1959

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1959. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. An Informal History of Denver and The Rocky Mountain News) and 1st Edition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, no dj, corners are very lightly bumped and rubbed, gently shelf worn, overall a very clean used signed first edition (stated)! Signed by the author on the half-title page! Gray cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 624 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages of text and 32 historic pages of black and white illustrations and photographs! Illustrated endpapers. "When in the earlymorning I put aside this book byRobert L. Perkin, I felt as though I had been reading a love letter to two of my old sweethearts: the City of Denver, and the Rocky Mountain News. The city and the newspaper had to wait one hundred years for someone capable of seeing the spiritual as well as the physical bond between the newspaper and the city which is its twin sister....." ---- from the Foreword. Signed by Author. First Edition / First Printing. Gray Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1959. Hardcover. Foreword by Gene Fowler. Small 4to. Grey cloth, dust jacket. 624pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Some jacket edgewear and minor rubbing. First edition, tight and nice.

Garden City: Doubleday 1959, 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 624pp. Photograph endpapers, photographs, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Minor edgewear and chipping to dust jacket, previous owner's inscription. Foreword by Gene Fowler. Locale: Colorado; Denver. (Western America, Local History--Colorado, Newspapers, Rocky Mountain News).

Doubleday & Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. Small DJ spine corner chip protected in a Mylar cover. Out of print. Illustrated by 32 pages of photographs.

Doubleday & Co., 1959. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Near fine in rubbed and edgeworn and lightly soiled dust jacket, in mylar cover.. Signed and inscribed by Perkins to Marge Barrett, both veteran Rocky Mountain News writers. With a foreward by Gene Fowler.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. Light sunning to lower edge of book. Tiny chips along DJ top edge, about .25 x 1" chip to upper DJ spine, shelfwear and age-tanning to DJ panels. Gilt lettering in a red block on spine, gray cloth-covered boards. Pictorial endpapers showing the State Museum model of Denver in 1860. New plastic covering to DJ. Unmarked text. 624 pp with acknowledgements, bibliography and index. Foreword by Gene Fowler. illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Perkins chronicles the history of a great western city and its newspaper, from the early pioneer days of the Rocky Mountains with its mountain settlers, Indian marauders, Horace Greeley, the new railroads and famous American journalists like Damon Runyon and Lowell Thomas. Tales of corrupt politics, wide-open gambling towns, and colorful eyebrow-raising events in a time where newspapermen usually kept a six-shooter on his desk!

NY: DOUBLEDAY, 1959. Book. COLLECTIBLE - FINE. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. DOUBLEDAY, 1959 NF CLOTH BOARDS. SIGNED BY PERKIN. NY: DOUBLEDAY (1959) 1ST ED. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. COLLECTIBLE - FINE/.