Bill's Mistake: A Story of the California Redwoods [Inscribed and Signed]
by Robert Gale Barson
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing Co, 1921. Very Good. San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing Co., 1921. First Edition. Small octavo (18cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth stamped in black; 268pp. Light shelf wear, faint offsetting to front free endpaper from previously removed news clipping, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "Very Truly Yours, Robert Gale Barson / Sept. 28, 1921."
The author's only published book, a rather uncommon California labor novel set in a saw mill in the Santa Cruz mountains during a strike.
[HANNA 231; SMITH B-290].
The author's only published book, a rather uncommon California labor novel set in a saw mill in the Santa Cruz mountains during a strike.
[HANNA 231; SMITH B-290].
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8404
- Title
- Bill's Mistake: A Story of the California Redwoods [Inscribed and Signed]
- Author
- Robert Gale Barson
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harr Wagner Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1921
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