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Sam Ward in the Gold Rush.
by Ward, Sam; edited by Carvel Collins
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: mustard-gold cloth with dark rust; this rust color matches the print on the map endpapers; a Near Fine book,
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
Stanford, California:: Stanford University Press, 1949.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: mustard-gold cloth with dark rust; this rust color matches the print on the map endpapers; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.75 inches tall) . Index. Map endpapers. Description: Many black and white illustrations from old engravings. In 1861 several installments of a serial memoir of the Gold Rush entitled ''Incidents on the River of Grace'' appeared in a New York weekly under the pen name of Midas, Jr.. Carvel Collins discovered some of these installments, and eventually put the series together and through research in the National Archives discovered the author to be Samuel Ward, the brother of Julia Ward Howe. These installments described his life in the Southern Mines during 1851 and 1852.
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 063802
- Title
- Sam Ward in the Gold Rush.
- Author
- Ward, Sam; edited by Carvel Collins
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: mustard-gold cloth with dark rust; this rust color matches the print on the map endpapers; a Near Fine book,
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Stanford, California:
- Date Published
- 1949.
- Pages
- 189 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (about 8.75 inches tall)
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The Bookworm
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Oroville, California
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