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Cable Car Days in San Francisco - SIGNED Copy
by KAHN, Edgar M
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1963. Revised Edition Seventh Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. William Wilke. Large 8vo. Pp. xvi, 134. Frontis. two-color illustration. With additional Wilke illustrations at chapter heads, b&w photo reproductions and a route plan. With references. Gray cloth, two-color title cartouche printed on the cover, endpaper maps by Wilke. Signed by the author with fountain pen on blank preliminary recto, ballpoint gift inscription verso dated Nov. 1964. Boards clean and square, leaves crisp and bright, binding tight. In the two color illustrated dust jacket, unclipped: minimal toning to the head edge, spine ends and corners gently rubbed. "An informal narrative" first published in 1940, this revised edition in 1944.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7887
- Title
- Cable Car Days in San Francisco - SIGNED Copy
- Author
- KAHN, Edgar M
- Illustrator
- William Wilke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised Edition Seventh Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Stanford
- Date Published
- 1963
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