TO AND FRO IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA with Sketches in Arizona and New Mexico.
by Adams, Emma H
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Slight wear to edges of covers, overall about fine
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About This Item
Cincinnati: W. M.B. C. Press, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Slight wear to edges of covers, overall about fine. 288 pp., 12mo, original dark brown pictorial cloth with cover design and lettering in gilt and black.
Compiled from letters to "certain Eastern journals - chiefly to the Cleveland "Leader & Herald" written during 1884 and 1886. The author was a fairly prolific writer of travel literature as well as juvenile fiction and short stories. The present text is intended as a "pleasant and readable book" that in some sense can function as a guide for visitors to the region. An expanded version was published the following year.
Compiled from letters to "certain Eastern journals - chiefly to the Cleveland "Leader & Herald" written during 1884 and 1886. The author was a fairly prolific writer of travel literature as well as juvenile fiction and short stories. The present text is intended as a "pleasant and readable book" that in some sense can function as a guide for visitors to the region. An expanded version was published the following year.
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- Bookseller
- Chanticleer Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23528
- Title
- TO AND FRO IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA with Sketches in Arizona and New Mexico.
- Author
- Adams, Emma H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight wear to edges of covers, overall about fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- W. M.B. C. Press
- Place of Publication
- Cincinnati
- Date Published
- 1887
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