GOLD RUSHES
by Morrell, W. P
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Co, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. 427 pp. illustrated with folding maps. This is the first book to tell of gold rushes in general...to Ballarat and Bendigo, to California and the Rand, to Australia and the Rockies, and even to Siberia and Brazil..Bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt. A very good copy with light damp stain to bottom edge of upper board, in clipped dust jacket with chipping to spine ends, some edge wear and dampstain to lower edge of front panel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007165
- Title
- GOLD RUSHES
- Author
- Morrell, W. P
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- HISTORY MINING - EXPLORATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mining;
Terms of Sale
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
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- 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...
- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...