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[California] BETWEEN the GATES
by Taylor, Benj. F.; [I. M. Kalloch provenance]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
BERKELEY, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers green cloth, front cover letttered and decorated in black, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, dark brown endpapers, full page frontispiece of The Golden Gate, additional illustrations in line with text. ; 5-1/4" x 7-1/2"; 292, [8] pp; A book with a bit of notoriety, owned by a murderer. In 1878, Isaac Smith Kalloch (I. S.) was running to be Mayor of San Francisco. He was shot in an assassinati on attempt by Charles de Young, then Editor of the Chronicle and backer of another candidate. He would survive and go on to be Mayor. Two years later (1880) his son, Isaac Milton Kalloch (I. M., and the former owner of this book) shot and killed de Young. He was tried but not convicted. ; A well-preserved copy. Minor wear to covers, text block is clean. This copy once the property of I. M. Kalloch, with his signature in ink on front flyleaf dated 1878. .
Details
- Bookseller
- Andrew Langer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6589
- Title
- [California] BETWEEN the GATES
- Author
- Taylor, Benj. F.; [I. M. Kalloch provenance]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- S. C. Griggs and Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1878
- Bookseller catalogs
- Californiana;
Terms of Sale
Andrew Langer, Bookseller
Telephone 510-684-4146. Photos available upon request, happy to answer questions.
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About the Seller
Andrew Langer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
BERKELEY, California
About Andrew Langer, Bookseller
Member ABAA, Member IOBA
Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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