Forty-Niners: The Chronicle of the California Trail
by HULBERT, Archer Butler
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. In this work the author takes the reader along with those who made the trek from Independence, Missouri to the gold fields of California in the late 1840s. Amusing illustrations are generously scattered throughout, along with maps and songs with musical notations. Indexed. --- In full green cloth-covered boards with blindstamped device on cover; titling gilt-stamped on cover and spine. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With foxing to some leaves, dulling to spine gilding & some minor discoloration to back cover; volume is otherwise firm and clean.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); xvii, 340 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80848
- Title
- Forty-Niners: The Chronicle of the California Trail
- Author
- HULBERT, Archer Butler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1931
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- >>American History & Politics; >>History;
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