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Across the San Juan Mountains
by T.A. Rickard
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Ouray, CO: Bear Creek Publishing Company, 1980 Bear Creek Publishing Company, Ouray, CO. 1980. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated First Printing of this facsimile printing of the 1907 original with new preface and introductory notes by the author. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; small coffee splashes on the textblock fore edge; light suntoning to spine; light soiling to wraps and textblock edges; pages 71-76 are bumped on their top edges. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 130 PP 8vo. This book records the observations made by a traveler who happened to be a mining engineer about places on the globe not yet overrun by tourists. These observations are from southwestern Colorado and a progressive part of Mexico written in a "'not severely technical" manner so that with beautiful photographs, the layman will have a feeling of the conditions in these two mining regions. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013559
- Title
- Across the San Juan Mountains
- Author
- T.A. Rickard
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bear Creek Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Ouray, CO
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- mining, geology, hard-rock geology, silver ore, gold ore, southwestern Colorado, Mexico, mine shafts, placer mining, San Juan Mountains, T.A. Rickard, Camp Bird Mill,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Geology;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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