Recollections of Pioneer Work in California [Cover Title: California Recollections]
Woods, James
Verkäufer About Books, Henderson, NV, USA
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Verkäufer About Books, Henderson, NV, USA
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AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 5. Februar 2021
Beschreibung
San Francisco: Joseph Winterburn & Co., 1878. Very Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. Previous owner's name stamp (3 times). Inner hinges are perfect. First Edition. Text is clean. NO underlining. NO margin notes. Bound in the original green cloth with blind stamped decorations and shiny gold lettering on the front cover. Woods traveled widely throughout the state, and comments freely on outlaws, gambling, mining, the inflationary effects of the Gold Rush on prices, fires, executions, women's rights, a female preacher, a steamboat explosion, Rev. Sylvester Woodbridge, Los Angeles, everyday life and living expenses, etc. Cowan 694. Adams 6 Guns 2448: "Rare… Contains some material on Joaquin Murietta." Kurutz 697: "A Presbyterian minister, Rev. Woods left New York for California with his wife and child on the ship Alice Tarlton in May 1849 and shipped around Cape Horn to San Francisco [when less than 20 families resided in the City]. Shortly thereafter, he went to Stockton and established a church for that community. His recollections are much more than an ecclesiastic history, as they give an articulate and human picture of life in that gateway to the Southern Mines." Rocq 17257. Cowan (I), p. 253, (II), p. 694. Decker 35: 196. Gudde p. 429. Mintz 625. Howell 50: 941. Norris 4263. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 260pp. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 016611
Bibliografische Details
Titel: Recollections of Pioneer Work in California ...
Verlag: Joseph Winterburn & Co., San Francisco
Erscheinungsdatum: 1878
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good condition
Auflage: First Edition.
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