Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of California
by Nadeau, Remi
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1965. This is a Very Good copy of a Later Printing (Second) of the First Edition. Small quarto with illustrated cloth boards. Clean text; 278 pages, indexed. A typically well-produced book from Ward Ritchie. Bookplate on the front paste-down; there is a bump to the top edge of the front cover, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, shows minor wear at the edges and has a chip towards the foot of the spine (looks like a label removal). In an archival plastic protector. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Later Printing.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001881
- Title
- Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of California
- Author
- Nadeau, Remi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Later Printing.
- Publisher
- Ward Ritchie Press
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1965
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Western History;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...