Historic California in Bookplates
by Clare Ryan Talbot
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good /No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles, CA: Graphic Press. INSCRIBED by author on first page, dated 9-3-39. Boards have edge wear and rubbing, front board has light fading along outside edge. Spine yellowed, spine label no legible. Two bookplates originally tipped-in are laying loose inside, Robert Ernest Cowan and Library of the Southwest Museum. It appears another bookplate was originally on front pastedown (adhesive spots visible) but this one is not present. Pages yellowing, interior is clean. Sewn binding, un-trimmed side page edges. NOT EX-LIBRARY. Small 4-page brochure announcing, promoting this book also laid in. . Good. Hardcover. 1936.
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- Bookseller
- Paradise Found Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002816
- Title
- Historic California in Bookplates
- Author
- Clare Ryan Talbot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Graphic Press
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles, CA
- Date Published
- 1936
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- LITERARY HISTORY, CALIFORNIA, CULTURE, ART
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- Bookplate
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