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Across the Plains and Among the Diggings - WITH Dust Jacket
by DELANO, Alonzo
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Wilson-Erickson, Inc, 1936. Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Good. Louis Palenske (photographs). 4to. Pp. xviii, 192. Frontis. site of Sutter's Mill black & white photo. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions. Foreword and epilogue by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. Red moiré-pattern cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the cover and spine. Lower corner bumped, head edge lightly soiled, leaves minimally age toned. In the salmon-colored dust jacket, titles printed in black: edges and corners chipped, a two-inch closed tear to the front panel near the spine tail, spine a bit darkened. A fine reprint of Delano's classic 1853 account of his 1849 journey to California, with the addition of splendid 1930s photos from the route.
Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7004
- Title
- Across the Plains and Among the Diggings - WITH Dust Jacket
- Author
- DELANO, Alonzo
- Illustrator
- Louis Palenske (photographs)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Wilson-Erickson, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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