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Memoirs of Orange Jacobs written by Himself Containing many interesting, amusing and instructive incidents of a life of eighty years or more, fifty-six of which were spent in Oregon and Washington
by Jacobs, Orange
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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£40.38
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About This Item
Seattle, WA: Lowman & Hanford Co., 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 234pp; Brown cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, boards clean, square & bright, frontispiece slightly wrinkled, frontispiece tissue guard intact, pages slightly age-toned, gift inscr. to first page of Introduction, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Memoirs of American lawyer, newspaper publisher and politician Orange Jacobs (1827-1914), a prominent figure in Oregon and Washington. Frontispiece portrait of the author.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014690
- Title
- Memoirs of Orange Jacobs written by Himself Containing many interesting, amusing and instructive incidents of a life of eighty years or more, fifty-six of which were spent in Oregon and Washington
- Author
- Jacobs, Orange
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Lowman & Hanford Co.
- Place of Publication
- Seattle, WA
- Date Published
- 1908
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- biography autobiography americana pacific northwest oregon washington seattle pioneers publishers politics history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pacific Northwest;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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