REDWOOD AND LUMBERING IN CALIFORNIA FORESTS: A reconstruction of the original Edgar Cherry edition, edited, with an account of its publication in 1884, by Peter E. Palmquiest, including a catalog of all known photographs
by Palmquist, Peter E. Preface by Gary F. Kurutz
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San Francisco: Book Club of California, (1983). First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 112 pp., 25 sepia-toned photographic plates, oblong quarto, original natural linen cloth over boards, pictorial inset on front cover. Fine in moderately worn glassine jacket
At time of publication only 26 copies of the 1884 original Cherry edition of Redwood and lumbering were known to exist, of which "no two contain the same illustrations." Peter Palmquist has selected the 25 most striking images from the original editions to reproduce here, together with a catalogue of all the images. Designed and printed by James Robertson at the Yolla Bolly Press in a limited edition of 600 copies.
At time of publication only 26 copies of the 1884 original Cherry edition of Redwood and lumbering were known to exist, of which "no two contain the same illustrations." Peter Palmquist has selected the 25 most striking images from the original editions to reproduce here, together with a catalogue of all the images. Designed and printed by James Robertson at the Yolla Bolly Press in a limited edition of 600 copies.
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- Chanticleer Books (US)
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- Title
- REDWOOD AND LUMBERING IN CALIFORNIA FORESTS:
- Author
- Palmquist, Peter E. Preface by Gary F. Kurutz
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Fine
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- very good
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- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Book Club of California
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- (1983)
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