OVERLAND JOURNEY FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO IN THE SUMMER OF 1859
by Greeley, Horace
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Creston, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
C. M. Saxton, Barker &co.. Not Stated Presumed First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 386, [10] pages. Faded gold lettering on the spine. Cover lightly soiled. Spine is slanted. Paper is foxed. Foredge lightly soiled, a couple of small ink stains on a few pages. Previous owner's signature on the title page. One signature of the bookblock has moved forward. This is a very good copy of this book written as a series of letters published in the New York Tribune and issued as a book at the conclusion of his travels.
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- Bookseller
- Beacon Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005947
- Title
- OVERLAND JOURNEY FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO IN THE SUMMER OF 1859
- Author
- Greeley, Horace
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Not Stated Presumed First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- C. M. Saxton, Barker &co.
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Beacon Books
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Creston, British Columbia
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- Title Page
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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