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James Clyman, American Frontiersman, 1792-1881
by Charles Camp
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Calif. Historical Society, San Francisco, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. CHARLES L. CAMP [editor]. James Clyman, American Frontiersman, 1792-1881, San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1928. Quarto, first edition, pp. 247, 4 (index), blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front, 3 maps (1 folding), frontis photo portrait tipped in, lacking the dust jacket, ex-library showing former owner's unfortunate efforts to expunge the library's markings. Adventures of a trapper and covered wagon emigrant as told in his own reminiscences and diaries. Howes, C 81: "One of the most trustworthy narratives of the far west." Also see Streeter 3095, Rader 849 and Zamorano Eighty 19. Condition of this book: Both joints splitting with the back cover nearly detached, crease in cloth on front, clean inside, but only fair to good. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; United States; 1920s; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54477. .
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 54477
- Title
- James Clyman, American Frontiersman, 1792-1881
- Author
- Charles Camp
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Calif. Historical Society
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Antiquarian & Rare; United States; 1920s; Biography & Autobiography. Charles Camp James Clyman, American Frontiersman, 1792-1881
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Biblio member since 2007
Warwick, New York
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Rarities specializes in photos, prints and art and photography books. We also offer vintage oddities.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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