Romantic California
by Ernest Peixotto
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribners, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo hardcover in forst green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and with tipped on color illustration front cover.Top edge gilt; illustrated endpapers. xiv + 219 pp. Illustrated with twenty full page monochrome sketches by the author as well as smaller line drawings in the text. A bright, fine, tight example. The author recounts the lovliness of California encountered on his sketching camping journey through the state. With chapters on "Italy in California" (particularly the Napa Valley), "Sketching The Inferno" (the wild groves of Cypress Hills); "Throght Bret Harte Country'; "Little Journeys from San Francisco"; "A Midsummer Night's Entertainment"; "In the Mountains"
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E19995
- Title
- Romantic California
- Author
- Ernest Peixotto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Scribners
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- california, west, napa, san francisco,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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