A Sacramento Saga: Fifty Years of Achievement - Chamber of Commerce Leadership
by Myrtle Shaw Lord
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Sacramento, CA : Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, 1946 Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, Sacramento, CA. 1946. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light dust soiling to textblock top; browning to endpapers from cheap post-war paper. DJ: Very Good; suntonong to spine; chipping to paper at head; moisture spot on upper rear corner of DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 414 pp 8vo. This book is a living history of California's Capital City. It details for the first time Sacramento's modern growth and development- fifty years of achievement under the leadership of the men and women of the City, County and Chamber of Commerce. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017019
- Title
- A Sacramento Saga: Fifty Years of Achievement - Chamber of Commerce Leadership
- Author
- Myrtle Shaw Lord
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Sacramento Chamber of Commerce
- Place of Publication
- Sacramento, CA
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Sacramento California History, Sacramento Chamber of Commerce history, World War II, Capital of California, aircraft industry, agriculture, Sutter's Fort, Gold Rush, Mather Field, McClellan Field, Sacramento Signal Depot,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Gilt
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- Brodart
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- Jacket
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- Chipping
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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