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Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
by Starr, Kevin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine with minor edges wear in a very good slightly edge-worn jacket. Please see photos. Now housed in archival mylar sleeve/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0195016440
- ISBN 13
- 9780195016444
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Pres, 1973. First edition (no earlier editions or printings stated). Hardcover. Near fine with minor edges wear in a very good slightly edge-worn jacket. Please see photos. Now housed in archival mylar sleeve./very good. Quarto in rust-colored cloth and brown picrial jacket; xviii, 494 pages portraits 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 460-479). One of the better books on Early California History. Starr's first book. Contents: Prophetic patterns, 1786-1850 -- Beyond Eldorado -- City on a hill -- A rapid, monstrous maturity -- "Because I am a Californian": the loyalties of Josiah Royce -- Sport, mountaineering, and life on the land -- The Sonoma finale of Jack London, rancher -- Bohemian shores -- The city beautiful and the San Francisco Fair -- Life among the best and truest: David Starr Jordan and the founding of Stanford University -- Gertrude Atherton, daughter of the elite -- An American Mediterranean -- Americans and the California dream.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94301
- Title
- Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
- Author
- Starr, Kevin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Near fine with minor edges wear in a very good slightly edge-worn jacket. Please see photos. Now housed in archival mylar sleeve
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition (no earlier editions or printings stated)
- ISBN 10
- 0195016440
- ISBN 13
- 9780195016444
- Publisher
- Oxford University Pres
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- California;
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Oakland, California
About Bibliope by Calvello Books
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