California Life: Illustrated
by Taylor, William
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- fair
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Carlton & Porter, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Sm. 8vo. 348pp. Green blind-stamped decorated cloth, gold lettering to spine. Illustrated with 16 engravings. Local and social history of pre-1855 California. Including Missionary Life, Hospital Reminiscences, Life Among the Miners, and Extent and Resources of California. Head and tail of spine badly chipped along hinges and at head and tail. Binding in fair, interior in good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22287
- Title
- California Life: Illustrated
- Author
- Taylor, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Carlton & Porter
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1858
- Keywords
- early california, early america, western history, history of the west
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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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
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- Fair
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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