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California Sketches with recollections of the Gold Mines (SIGNED)
by Kip, Leonard
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Los Angeles: N. A. Kovach, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 1 of 10 copies from a Limited Edition of 35 numbered copies; this copy unnumbered and with a dash at copy number location. 8vo. (xi) [4] 58pp. Errata slip laid in at rear. Facsimile of Gibbes Map of the Southern Mines, 1852. Half dark blue morocco & cloth, gilt lettering to spine in printed dustjacket. Introduction by Lyle Wright and SIGNED by him and the artist, John B. Goodman. Fine in near fine dustjacket (slight fading to spine; short, closed tear). "... excellent descriptions of San Francisco, Stockton, mining camps, and life in the diggings around the Mokelumne River area." - Kurutz 379b. Kip also observed that once the gold ran out, California would not offer much for settlers - an inaccurate observation as today's California depicts. First book in the California Centennial Series. (Howes K174; Rocq 10081).
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- Bookseller
- Carpe Diem Fine Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8939
- Title
- California Sketches with recollections of the Gold Mines (SIGNED)
- Author
- Kip, Leonard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- N. A. Kovach
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- gold mine; pioneer; gold rush; abaa-oakland, Signed Books, , ,
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