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The Gold Rush - Letters of Dr. James Delavan from California to the Adrian, Michigan, Expositor 1850-1856
by Delavan, Dr. James
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
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About This Item
Michigan: The Cumming Press, 1976. Limited ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. Green cloth hardcover with gilt titles and cover illustration, limited to 487 copies. This copy apparently bound upside down with cover markings pointing the opposite direction from the text. A near fine copy with minor bending at the spine tips. Clean and tight as if unread. 98 pp., limitation page at rear. A collection of Delavan's letters back to the Michigan Expositor detailing his experiences in California during the gold rush.
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- Tangible Tales
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2088
- Title
- The Gold Rush - Letters of Dr. James Delavan from California to the Adrian, Michigan, Expositor 1850-1856
- Author
- Delavan, Dr. James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited ed
- Publisher
- The Cumming Press
- Place of Publication
- Michigan
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- letters biographies autobiography california gold rush history united states michigan adrian newspapers mines mining journalists limited editions.
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY); BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers;
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