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Boston: phillips, sampson, and c, 1856-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . 1853 edition. Red cloth cover with decoration in blind and gilt. Cover shows minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, loss on the spine and bumped corners. Pages are lightly tanned with minor scattered foxing.
New York by Gas-Light with Here and There a Streak of Sunshine by Foster, G.G - 1850
by Foster, G.G
New York by Gas-Light with Here and There a Streak of Sunshine
by Foster, G.G
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New York: Dewitt & Davenport, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. G.G. Foster was a journalist for the New York Tribune, who wrote much about New York lowlife. Indeed this is not fiction at all, but a tour of nightlife in New York, with much on prostitution, nude shows, saloons, bowling and billiard saloons (In the company of William T. Porter and Frank Forester), etc. 8vo, 127pp, bound in modern three-quarter morocco and cloth. Scattered foxing. Wright I 979.
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- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1850
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1856
by g.g. Foster
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THE GOLD REGIONS OF CALIFORNIA: BEING A SUCCINCT DESCRIPTION OF THE GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, AND GENERAL FEATURES OF CALIFORNIA: INCLUDING A CAREFULLY PREPARED ACCOUNT OF THE GOLD REGIONS OF THE FORTUNATE COUNTRY
by Foster, G.G
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New York: Dewitt & Davenport, 1849.. 80,[6]pp. Fragment of rear wrapper extant. Minor edge wear, scattered foxing, faint dampstaining on titlepage. Overall very good. Lacks the folding map. The third edition, second issue, according to Kurutz. Foster's widely popular treatise on the gold regions went through three editions in 1848, the last of which contained a one-page map. This edition, published in 1849, is derived from the third 1848 edition, but instead was issued with a folding lithographic map by J.H. Colton which is not present here. "Edward Eberstadt writes: 'This is the first considerable pamphlet on the Gold Regions....The author was the first to suggest going to California in companies or associations, and he predicts that 'one year will see ten of fifteen thousand heady and adventurous Americans in the heart of California, ready to dig gold.' Foster, in his eloquent and stirring introduction, also correctly predicted that a fortune could be made by the enterprising blacksmith,…
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