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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006-05-26. Paperback. Good.

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San Francisco: A. Roman (1877). Fair. 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. EX-PACIFIC UNION CLUB LIBRARY, with their bookplate tipped in front paste down, and only several small call numbers on copyright. 352pp., tissue frontis; 8vo; purple cloth, lettered & decorated in gilt; three plates of illustrations with tissue guards. Spine and top two inches of front and back covers faded, with a splotch of dicoloration on front; wear to spine ends and leading corners; top of spine chipped with 1" thumb tip size loss; pastedowns and endpapers of pink coated stock show a mottled blue from some reaction to adhesive? Ownership inscription of Joseph K. Hutchinson on third front endpaper. Prelims, text pages, and plates all clean, binding appears solid. Unsightly, but a good working copy. .

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

San Francisco: A. Roman. Very Good. 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth/Gilt. Edges rubbed, corners lightly bumped, endpages soiled. Frontis; four plates. Contemporary presentation inscription from Edward Bosqui, noted printer and pioneer, whose firm printed this work. Woodcut plates of scenes in California. In torn acetate DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages .

San Francisc, 1877. 352pp. plus three plates. Frontis. Modern cloth, leather label. A very good, clean copy. The author was a doctor during the gold rush and spent much time in the mines from 1849 to 1850. This book and works published recently from his surviving manuscripts have established him as one of the leading chroniclers of the early days in California. HOWES S1006, "aa." COWAN, p.616. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 199. KURUTZ 605

San Francisco & New York: A. Roman & Co, 1877. 8vo. 230 x 145 mm., (9 x 6 inches). 352 pp. Illustrated with four plates and one vignette. Original cloth with embossed medallion on upper board in gitl, gilt title on spine; head and tail of spine worn away, cloth a bit dull; with faults a good sound copy. This copy is inscribed to "R. C. Rogers with the compliments of the author." First edition. Written about 25 years after his experience as a Argonaut in California, Stillman's account is both authentic and very valuable as a document of the experience of miner's like himself who wrote home describing the trials, tribulations, and triumphs that were experience by this enterprising group of men in the 1850's. He based his book on manuscripts that survived over the years and revealed the personal stories that were so sought after by the public. "Significant memoirs of an early California physician who had a notable career in his adopted state." Wheat… Read More