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THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH OVERLAND DIARY OF BYRON N. McKINSTRY 1850-1852 (Unique Copy)
by Byron Nathan McKinstry; Bruce L. McKinstry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Collectible Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0870621149
- ISBN 13
- 9780870621147
- Seller
-
Renton, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Fine. q. 1st printing. Full leather with raised bands with gilt title / year of pub on spine. 401pp. Illus. Index. Inscribed (12 line presentation) by the editor and McKinstry descendant to the fine Chicago book binder Ed Lhotka, the author of ABC of Leather Bookbinding, on January 2, 1975. Lhotka died in 2007 at the age of 97. He was a book binder at the great R. R. Donnelley Company in Chicago for nearly 50 years and "... did work for museums and libraries around the country..." (Chicago Tribune obit). This copy is fine and elegant, and is bound in red leather with a gold stripe running diagonally across both front and back covers. It represents the trail and features a wagon wheel on both covers. The presentation page appears to be bound in. In the back, also bound in most creatively is the dust jacket of the trade edition. The rear paste down has paper adhering from something that was glued and removed. This is the only "flaw." Laid inside the back cover is a folded US map showing McKinstry's route. Penciled on the recto of the map is "Wagon Trail / Council Bluffs to San Francisco." It does not appear to have been the piece removed from the paste down. The end papers are custom, and affixed to the front free end-paper (fly leaf) is Lhotka's custom bookplate with a drawing showing a hand utilizing a tool on a book spine. This leather copy is slip-cased in red cloth with a printed paper label on the spine of the box. The title is volume X in the Arthur H. Clark Co. American Trail Series. Truly a collector's copy.
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- Bookseller
- Gene W. Baade Books on the West
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2111013
- Title
- THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH OVERLAND DIARY OF BYRON N. McKINSTRY 1850-1852 (Unique Copy)
- Author
- Byron Nathan McKinstry; Bruce L. McKinstry
- Illustrator
- q
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0870621149
- ISBN 13
- 9780870621147
- Publisher
- Arthur H. Clark Co
- Place of Publication
- Glendale
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Gold Rush, California, McKinstry, Lhotka, bookbinding.
- Bookseller catalogs
- California; Mining;
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About the Seller
Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Biblio member since 2004
Renton, Washington
About Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Quality dealer of fine used and rare books, primarily on the North American frontier since 1988, but we also carry collectable books in various other fields.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Bookplate
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
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