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Heroes of California: The Story of the Founders of the Golden State as Narrated by Themselves or Gleaned from Other Sources
by JAMES, George Wharton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1910. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with blue, white and gilt pictorial stamping and gilt lettering. xxii, 525pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good. Slightest bit of faint edgewear, else internally a near fine copy. Tight and bright first edition of this overview -- an exceptionally attractive copy.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33971
- Title
- Heroes of California: The Story of the Founders of the Golden State as Narrated by Themselves or Gleaned from Other Sources
- Author
- JAMES, George Wharton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1910
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Western Americana;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...