California as I Saw It: Pencillings by the Way of its Gold and Gold Diggers, and Incidents of Travel by Land and Water. With Five Letters from the Isthmus
by M'Collum, William; Hecox, W. H.; Morgan, Dale L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
The Talisman Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. Edition limited to 750 copies. ; Tight, clean and crisp. A hint of light shelf wear to dustjacket with very mild sunning to spine, otherwise an excellent First Edition now protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. ; 8vo; 219 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Eliabooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27977
- Title
- California as I Saw It: Pencillings by the Way of its Gold and Gold Diggers, and Incidents of Travel by Land and Water. With Five Letters from the Isthmus
- Author
- M'Collum, William; Hecox, W. H.; Morgan, Dale L
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Talisman Press
- Date Published
- 1960
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Los Angeles, California
About Eliabooks
Eliabooks specializes in art and photography books, including exhibition catalogs.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Spine
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- Price Clipped
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- Shelf Wear
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- Remainder Mark
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- Fine
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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