How We Climb to the Stars and The Lick Observatory: A Lecture and Guide Book
by James, George Wharton
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece and three other illustrations. Original blue wrappers (now laid down on a later pamphlet binder). No dust jacket. Very good (few spots). 39 pages plus 12 pages of advertisements including "James' System of Easy Memorizing;" Stege's Quaker Restaurant; The Overland Monthly; The Remington Type Writer; The Southern Pacific Company; Studebaker Bros. Manufacturing Co.
Privately printed for James who was living in Oleander, Fresno County at the time. Copies could be purchased from him.
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- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2222355
- Title
- How We Climb to the Stars and The Lick Observatory: A Lecture and Guide Book
- Author
- James, George Wharton
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Bancroft Company
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1887
- Pages
- 39
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- WESTERN AMERICANA;
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...