THE SAGA OF THE COMSTOCK LODE : Boom Days in Virginia City
by George D. Lyman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/No Jacket
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition, First Printing . Hard Cover/Stitched. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/No Jacket. Archival Photographs & Illustrations. Text/Clean, and AS NEW. 1934 Vintage First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/NF; Strong & sound, showing trace shelfwear. DJ/None. Endpapers:1861 Pictorials of Virginia City, Nevada Territory. The story of the "gold rush" in Nevada by George D. Lyman (1882-1949), who was born in Virginia City. Illustrations include Mark Twain's cabin (pg 269). 407 pgs w/archival illustrations, 66 chapters, in 3 books: Book I, "Blue-Stuff"; II, Bonanza; and III, Borrasca. Well researched, richly annecdoted history.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020159
- Title
- THE SAGA OF THE COMSTOCK LODE : Boom Days in Virginia City
- Author
- George D. Lyman
- Illustrator
- Archival Photographs & Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover/Stitched
- Book Condition
- Used - COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- History/American West/Virginia City/Comstock Lode/Nevada Territory
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- Gilt
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