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curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, USA
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Original red cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Points softened, rubbing, split along backstrip edge, scattered foxing. Plates and folding facsimile Declaration of Rights with a closed tear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 456 pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 30951
Titel: Three Years in California
Verlag: A. S. Barnes, NY
Erscheinungsdatum: 1850
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good-
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket
Auflage: First Edition.
Anbieter: North Slope Books, Lancaster, PA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Presumed reprint - copyright shows 1850 with 1860 on title page. Corners bumped; edges lightly worn; small chips top and bottom of spine; minor foxing on frontis; ex-library with only library designation is large printed bookplate on front pastedown and embossed stamp on title page - no library marks outside. Brown cloth binding with gilt title on spine. 456pp. Remarkable condition for 160-year old book. Lots of interesting content concerning California mid-19th century. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5334
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, USA
456 pp. plus pub. cat. Complete with frontispiece and 12 plates. 8vo, publisher's cloth. Later edition. Some scattered inoffensive foxing; spine sunned with light wear to extremities; tight and sound. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 54570
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Anbieter: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
First edition. 12mo. 456 pp. Illustrated, plates, portrait, map, large folding facsimile (detached, with loss, and laid in). Sabin 14800. Howes C-625: "Colton was alcalde of Monterey; his narrative is interesting and valuable." Howell 50, 45: "Colton founded the first newspaper in California, the Californian fascinating diary covering the period from 1846 to 1849, largely devoted to the manners and customs of the people surrounding him. Graff 839. Zamorano Eighty 20. Original gilt-stamped decorated black cloth (rubbed); scattered foxing, with defect noted, a good copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 66402
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: Phoenix Books/Joanne's Used Books, Los Banos, CA, USA
Hardback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Acceptable. First Edition. Three Years in California by Colton, Walter Stanford Univ. Press, 1949, lst. Hardback in good condition, acceptable dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, some tanning of pages due to paper used and age. Dust jacket shows signs of wear with dings, chips, nicks etc., owners name inside cover. This is the story written by Rev. Walter Colton of the U.S.N. from his diaries of his voyage to Pacific waters and California in 1845. Born in 1797 he had at 17 joined the navy to see the world. Ill health got in his way and he became a Minster, however the sea called and he saw the world from Lisbon, Messina, Constantinople and when the call came for California he accepted. This book is the story of his travels during that period. Book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004186
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Anbieter: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Later printing. Octavo. 456 pages, [1]. Illustrated. Folding facsimile California Constitution. Brown cloth covered boards with green cloth spine and covered joints. Gilt title on the spine. Marbled text edges. Light edge wear to the cloth extremities. Pages 395-406 chipped top corner edges with very minor loss of paper that does not affect any contents. Previous owner name in pencil on the right front flyleaf. A good or better copy. Reference Graff 839; Field; 346; Howes C 625. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 31008
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, USA
Hardback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Cover Worn and Soiled/base of spine damaged/flyleaf creased. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 290681
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: Avenue Victor Hugo Books, Newmarket, NH, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good minus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Without dust jacket. Early reprint. All volumes octavo, 7 2/3? tall, vol. 1: 456 pages + fold out reproduction of the California Constitution; vol. 2: 441 pages; vol. 3: 389 pages; vol. 4: 408 pages; all volumes contain a few plate pages; gilt spine titles on green and brown cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, neat hard cover edition with moderate shelf wear, slight exterior soiling and , and rubbing at the fore-corner tipss, binding tight, paper moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 58845
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Anbieter: Recycled, Corte Madera, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Rebound later in plain cloth and somewhat foxed, but complete with six portraits, six humorous plates and the large folding facsimile page of the California Declaration of Rights, which has been linen backed. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1667
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Anbieter: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, USA
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Zustand: Fair Condition. First Edition. Original cloth, spine torn and taped and more or less perished, boards are intact otherwise. With 12 plates, a frontis and the folding Declaration of California Rights in very good condition with opne small tape repair. Moderate foxing throughout, old ownership marks to endpapers. Howes C-625, Zamorana 80 #20, Sabin 14800. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Exploration. Inventory No: 045030. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 045030
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Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First edition. 456pp. Octavo [19 cm] in decorative blindstamped green cloth with gilt spine title and cover device. In attractive modern slipcase of marbled paper over sturdy boards. The front pastedown has a previous owner's bookplate and the remains of a small label. The pages are lightly foxed throughout. The text block is sporadically cracked. The preliminary pages, including the frontispiece, have very light tidemarks. Complete. All plates present. With the Declaration of Rights in the Constitution of California (with a 5" closed tear). Wright Howes, 631. The George W. Soliday Collection of Western Americana (A Descriptive Checklist by Peter Decker), II, 233. Walter Colton served as the first Alcalde of Monterey, and was the co-publisher of California's first newspaper, "The Californian.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 55764
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