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Alonzo Delano's Pen-Knife Sketches, or Chips of the Old Block
by Delano, Alonzo
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934 Reprinted from the only other edition of 1853. Limited to 550 copies. Foreword by G. Ezra Dane. Small quarto. Pp. xxi, [1], 79, [1]. Frontispiece, twenty headpieces, and four full-page drawings in color by Charles Nahl. Printed in double columns. Colophon and thirty-one initials printed in sepia. Original blue-green boards, tan spine, printed paper spine label; colored drawing and title by Charles Nahl on front cover. A very fine and bright copy with the elusive plain peach dust jacket. Scarce in this condition. The humorous sketches of California Gold Rush life by the man as famous for his profile as well as his wit, "Old Block" of California. Includes a new foreword by G. Ezra Dane. One of the Fifty Books of the Year. [Grabhorn: 204]..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Argonaut Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6063
- Title
- Alonzo Delano's Pen-Knife Sketches, or Chips of the Old Block
- Author
- Delano, Alonzo
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Grabhorn Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Press Book, gold Rush, Private Press, California, California Gold
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Argonaut Book Shop
Biblio member since 2009
San Francisco, California
About Argonaut Book Shop
The Argonaut Book Shop was founded in 1941 in the middle of the financial district of San Francisco. The Argonaut was a founding member of the Antiquarian Booksellers\' Association of America and has been a member in good standing ever since. The Shop is now located just three blocks from Union Square in downtown San Francisco and is open six days a week. Parking facilities include ample street space and a parking garage close by.
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- New
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- Quarto
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