ARTFUL DEEDS IN THE LIFE OF THE FELON, GROVENOR LAYTON: A Tale of the California Gold Rush
by Dillon, Richard H. (introduction by)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn in fine slipcase
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Fort Bragg, California, United States
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San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1998. First edition. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn in fine slipcase. Original red cloth and pictorial boards; octavo; 71 pp. Illustrated The text, originally published in New Orleans in 1852 as an account of a crime and frontier justice administered, is declared in the introduction by Richard Dillon to belong to that genre of American fiction he calls "California Gold Rush gallows confessions." Autographed by Richard Dillon of front free endpaper
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- Seller
- Chanticleer Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 17254
- Title
- ARTFUL DEEDS IN THE LIFE OF THE FELON, GROVENOR LAYTON: A Tale of the California Gold Rush
- Author
- Dillon, Richard H. (introduction by)
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn in fine slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Book Club of California
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1998
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