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Montgomery and The Portsmouth - In Original Clear Acetate Jacket
by ROGERS, Fred Blackburn
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: John Howell, 1958. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. ix, 145. Frontis. subject portrait. Title page printed in three colors. Illustrated with six drawings and document facsimiles. Appendices listing commanders and assignments of the Portsmouth. Notes, index. Bound in navy blue cloth with sloop of war on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge untrimmed. In the publisher's original clear acetate dust jacket. Edition limited to 750, printed by Lawton Kennedy. Leaves uncut/unopened after p. 74. Letterpress bookplate of bibliophile Roger K. Larson. The third volume in John Howell's series. Commander John Berrien Montgomery witnessed the Bear Flag Revolt in San Francisco Bay during the Mexican-American War, and his detachment raised the U.S. flag in Yerba Buena on July 9, 1846. Illustrations include Sam Brannan imprints from Yerba Buena.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7032
- Title
- Montgomery and The Portsmouth - In Original Clear Acetate Jacket
- Author
- ROGERS, Fred Blackburn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- John Howell
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1958
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Press;
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About the Seller
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About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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