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THE GRINGOS -- A STORY OF THE OLD CALIFORNIA DAYS IN 1849
by BOWER, B. M
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
USA: Grosset & Dunlap, 1913. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Anton Otto Fischer. Type: Hardback 1913 Hardcover Reprint in Good- Condition. Out-of-Print. 350 pages. C alifornia history physical description, gold mines, mining, miners. Brown full cloth binding with black lettering. The upper part of front panel is discolored to a greenish cast, irregular shape. Boards are aged, corners and spine ends are frayed, scuffed, edges are rubbed. Foxing on endpapers and flyleafs and a few interior pages. Frontispiece illustration of cowboys and gringos. Other illustrations by Anton Otto Fischer. Inner hinge cracked. Sewn binding is tight, backstrap loosened. So the cover is in rough shape but the interior is in remarkably good condition--clean, untorn, some pages with foxing. Illustrations clean and clear. Previous owner name on paste-down. Reprint Published later in October,1913, by Grosset & Dunlap. Originally published October,1913, by Little, Brown and Co.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005489
- Title
- THE GRINGOS -- A STORY OF THE OLD CALIFORNIA DAYS IN 1849
- Author
- BOWER, B. M
- Illustrator
- Anton Otto Fischer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CALIFORNIA-1849. FORTY-NINERS
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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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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