Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Government
by SHINN, Charles Howard
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- Hardcover
- first
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Hardcover. Introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. xxvi, 291pp, vii. Near fine/very good. Quite minor edgewear to bright jacket. Attractive and tight first of this edition, a classic first published in 1885. A volume in editor Robert Glass Cleland and Oscar Lewis's "Western Americana" series. This interesting copy bears a fine, relevant philatelic addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a First Day Cover, 6½" X 3½", cancelled in Coloma, California on 24 January 1948 and with "First Day of Issue" so noted. Single 3-cent "California Gold Centennial" stamp at upper right and with left side bearing an Art Craft printed cachet depicting Sutter's Mill and James W. Marshall, captioned "100th Anniversary of the Discovery of Gold in California." Typed recipient name/address of Ralph G. Newman (1912-98), founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. HOWES S 416 note.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49801
- Title
- Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Government
- Author
- SHINN, Charles Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Western Americana;
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