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Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax
by Bowles, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Springfield, Mass: Samuel Bowles & Company, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. g. Sm. 8vo. xx. 452(6)pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Head and tail of spine frayed. Corners bumped and worn. Age wearing throughout. Two-inch tear to joints near bottom area of front cover. Faded gilt top edge. Hinges starting. Sporadic water staining not affecting text. "With the bookplate of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long time curator of the Southwest Museum of The American Indians in Pasadena, California". Letters by Bowles describing his experiences. "The whole series is the ablest and most valuable report ever made of the characteristics of the Western and Pacific portions of our Union". 6 page advertisement section of publisher at rear of book. Book in very good reading, binding in fair condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11420
- Title
- Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax
- Author
- Bowles, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Samuel Bowles & Company
- Place of Publication
- Springfield, Mass
- Date Published
- 1865
- Keywords
- description, 19th Century , Civil War Era, Vancouver, Salt Lake City, Oregon, Yosemite Valley, San Francisco
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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