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Lemon Hill and Fairmount Park: The Papers of Charles S. Keyser and Thomas Cochran, relative to a Public Park for Philadelphia; Published in 1856 and 1872 by Keyser, Charles Shearer; Cochran, Thomas - 1886

by Keyser, Charles Shearer; Cochran, Thomas

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Lemon Hill and Fairmount Park: The Papers of Charles S. Keyser and Thomas Cochran, relative to a Public Park for Philadelphia; Published in 1856 and 1872 by Keyser, Charles Shearer; Cochran, Thomas - 1886

Lemon Hill and Fairmount Park: The Papers of Charles S. Keyser and Thomas Cochran, relative to a Public Park for Philadelphia; Published in 1856 and 1872

by Keyser, Charles Shearer; Cochran, Thomas

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Philadelphia: Horace J. Smith, 1886. Paperback. Good. iv, 54 p., frontispiece, 1 folded map; 24 cm. Original grey wrappers with decorative wrapper title: Lemon Hill and Fairmount Park 1856-1872. The folded map is the 1828 map published by H.S. Tanner, "Plan of the City of Philadelphia and Adjoining Districts Compiled from Original Documents by William Allen. Charles S. Keyser's pamphlet "Lemon Hill in its connection with the Efforts of Our Citizens and Councils to obtain a Public Park" was published in 1856, after the City of Philadelphia had purchased the Lemon Hill estate in 1844 but failed to move forward with a concrete plan to turn it into a public park. Keyser's pamphlet inspire efforts that led to the creation of Fairmount Park. Thomas Chochran's piece "Fairmount Park: A Necessity for the Health and Recreation of the Present and Future Population of the City" was published in the newspapers in 1872 and helped to defeat a movement to reduce the size of the park. In Good Condition: lacking back wrapper; front wrapper detached and with significant loss at edges, but printing is intact; tissue-guarded frontispiece detached, with some loss along edges, not impacting image; text block is solid; pages are clean. Very scarce.

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The History of Kentucky, From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
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The History of Kentucky, From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time

by Arthur, T.S.; Carpenter, W.H.

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Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1853. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good +. First edition. 316, 20 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary black morocco spine with gilt-tooled spine title and blind-tooled spine decoration. Black cloth over boards. All page edges marbled. Part of the series Lippincott's Cabinet Histories of the States. Added engraved series title page with vignette captioned: "United we stand, divided we fail." 20-page publisher's catalog follows text. Inscriptions on the front endpapers indicate that George W. Burke received this as a premium in a history class at Villanova College in 1854. At the head of the series title page is inscribed: Robert J. Madden, Harrisburg. The very scarce first edition of this antebellum history of Kentucky. In Good+ Condition: ends of spine and corners are rubbed; cloth is soiled; faint dampstain in lower section of first 6 leaves; series title page soiled; back free endpaper lacking; lower 2 cm. of last 2 leaves of… Read More
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Memoranda of a Residence at the Court of London by Richard Rush, envoy extraordinary and minister...
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Memoranda of a Residence at the Court of London by Richard Rush, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the United States of America, from 1817 to 1825

by Rush, Richard

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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833. Hardcover. Good. 460, [12] p.; 24 cm. Original plain red linen spine with plain beige paper over boards. Pages are untrimmed. Publisher's advertisements on 12 unpaginated pages following text. First edition, which was published simultaneously in London, with slight changes, by R. Bentley, as Narrative of a Residence at the Court of London. American Imprints, 21026; Howes, R522. Gift inscription on title page: "To Elisa W. D?? From L.C. Woodruff 1890." Small label of former owner George W. Dix on front fixed endpaper. Richard Rush (1780-1859) was an American lawyer and diplomat, son of Benjamin Rush and Julia Stockton Rush. After serving in a number of other offices, he became secretary of state under President James Monroe. In 1817 he was named minister to Great Britain. This volume covers his arrival in England and the beginning of his tenure as minister, from Nov. 1817 to Jan. 1819. The first edition is much scarcer than the… Read More
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Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with Reports from the...
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Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with Reports from the Quartermaster-General, Surgeon-General, and Master of Ordnance, for the Year ending December 31, 1863

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Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1864. Hardcover. Good +. Wright & Potter, state printers. 1022, 8, 22, 20 p., [4] unpaginated pages of folded tables: many in-text tables; 24 cm. Original black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Blind-stamped decoration on both boards and spine. Yellow endpapers. "Public Document No. 8" at head of title page. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "H.A. Brewster, Baltimore Md. Feb. 27th 1865." Former owner's stamp on front fixed endpaper: "D.M. Wilcox, M.D. Physician and Surgeon, Lee, Mass." Contains detailed information on the Massachusetts troops involved in the Civil War. Scarce. In Good+ Condition: edges are rubbed with separation and minor loss at ends of spine and front joint; cover is lightly soiled; faint dampstain along front gutter, fore-edges of a few leaves, and upper right-hand corner of back fixed endpaper; otherwise, pages and folded tables are clean and tight.
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Reports of the Several Railroad and Canal Companies of Pennsylvania, For the Year 1865:...
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Reports of the Several Railroad and Canal Companies of Pennsylvania, For the Year 1865: communicated by the Auditor General; Isaac Slenker, Auditor General; Charles Conner, Railroad Clerk

by Slenker, Isaac

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Harrisburg: Singerly & Myers, State Printers, 1866. Hardcover. Very Good. 476 p.: tables; 25 cm. Original dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title: "Annual Rail-Road Reports of Penna. 1865." Blind-stamped border and emblem of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on both boards. Contains detailed reports on all of the railroad and canal companies in the Pennsylvania covering the final year of the Civil War. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: cover is slightly soiled; corners of back board are rubbed; closed 7-cm. tear from fore-edges of pp. 261-64; occasional light soiling internally; otherwise, clean and tight.
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Schedule of Examinations, and Instructions to Applicants: Classified Civil Service (Revised to...
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Schedule of Examinations, and Instructions to Applicants: Classified Civil Service (Revised to January 1, 1897)

by United States Civil Service Commission

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Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1897. Paperback. Very Good -. 96 p., 5 leaves of facsimiles, drawings, and tables: in-text drawing and tables; 23 cm. Stapled; green wrappers printed in black. With, loose, a smaller sheet containing revised ages for entrance to different branches of the service, as of Jan. 2, 1897, as well as errata. Very scarce. In Very Good- Condition: wrapper is separating at ends of spine, with minor loss; front wrapper is lightly creased; back wrapper is discolored (sunned?); pages are clean and tight.
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Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with Reports from the...
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Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with Reports from the Quartermaster-General, Surgeon-General, and Master of Ordnance, for the Year ending December 31, 1863

by Schouler, William

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Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1864. Hardcover. Good +. Wright & Potter, state printers. 1022, 8, 22, 20 p., [4] unpaginated pages of folded tables: many in-text tables; 24 cm. Original black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Blind-stamped decoration on both boards and spine. Yellow endpapers. "Public Document No. 8" at head of title page. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "H.A. Brewster, Baltimore Md. Feb. 27th 1865." Former owner's stamp on front fixed endpaper: "D.M. Wilcox, M.D. Physician and Surgeon, Lee, Mass." Contains detailed information on the Massachusetts troops involved in the Civil War. Scarce. In Good+ Condition: edges are rubbed with separation and minor loss at ends of spine and front joint; cover is lightly soiled; faint dampstain along front gutter, fore-edges of a few leaves, and upper right-hand corner of back fixed endpaper; otherwise, pages and folded tables are clean and tight.
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An Historical Account of the First Settlement of Salem, in West Jersey, by John Fenwick, Esq.,...
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Philadelphia: Orrin Rogers, 1839. Hardcover. Very Good. 173, [1] p.; 16 cm. Modern full calf with printed paper spine label. Marbled endpapers. John Fenwick (1618-1683) was the English Quaker who in 1675 led a group of Quakers to New Jersey, where they established the first English settlement in West Jersey, named New Salem. The author, Robert Gibbon Johnson (1771-1850), was a Salem resident and a founder of the New Jersey Historical Society. In Very Good Condition: binding is clean and tight; old dampstain along upper fore-edge of about half of pages; light foxing throughout, heavy on a few pages; occasional marginal pencil mark; otherwise, clean and tight.
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Reports of the Several Railroad and Canal Companies of Pennsylvania, For the Year 1865:...
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Reports of the Several Railroad and Canal Companies of Pennsylvania, For the Year 1865: communicated by the Auditor General; Isaac Slenker, Auditor General; Charles Conner, Railroad Clerk

by Slenker, Isaac

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Harrisburg: Singerly & Myers, State Printers, 1866. Hardcover. Very Good. 476 p.: tables; 25 cm. Original dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title: "Annual Rail-Road Reports of Penna. 1865." Blind-stamped border and emblem of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on both boards. Contains detailed reports on all of the railroad and canal companies in the Pennsylvania covering the final year of the Civil War. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: cover is slightly soiled; corners of back board are rubbed; closed 7-cm. tear from fore-edges of pp. 261-64; occasional light soiling internally; otherwise, clean and tight.
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Affairs of General Land Office: Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a Report...
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Affairs of General Land Office: Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, on subjects connected with the Land Office [with maps]

by Woodbury, Levi

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Washington, D.C.: Thomas Allen, printer, 1837. Paperback. Very Good -. 69, [3] p., 10 leaves of maps with color borders, most folded: tables; 23 cm. Stitched; disbound from a volume containing pamphlets relating to government land offices. "[Doc. No. 23.]" -- at head of every page. The Secretary of the Treasury, Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), is officially sending a report from James Whitcomb, the commissioner of the General Land Office, to Speaker of the House of Representatives James K. Polk. The report contains 25 pages of tables showing the number of acres sold by each land office and how much money came into the treasury. Also contains data about surveying in various states and territories; maps relate to the surveys. In Very Good- Condition: disbound; scattered foxing; one map is detached and separated along some folds, but complete; final map is browned; otherwise, clean and tight.
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History of the Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals From the Beginning of the Eighteenth to the...
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Philadelphia: Charles Lawrence, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. "Covering a Period of Nearly Two Hundred Years: showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the directors of the Department of Charities and Correction." 398 p., frontispiece and 20 leaves of plates; 24 cm. Olive green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Endpapers with light green floral pattern. Former owner Thomas N. Haviland's name written on front free endpaper and bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Inscription on front fixed endpaper indicating that someone, possibly Haviland, purchased the book at Leary's Bookstore, in Philadelphia, in 1954. Thomas N. Haviland (d. 1986) in the late 1930s was the museum curator at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy. In the 1950s he was the curator at the Wistar Institute; after his death it was discovered that he had relieved that Institute of items that were later found… Read More
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Lemon Hill and Fairmount Park: The Papers of Charles S. Keyser and Thomas Cochran, Relative to a...
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Lemon Hill and Fairmount Park: The Papers of Charles S. Keyser and Thomas Cochran, Relative to a Public Park for Philadelphia

by Charles Shearer Keyser, Thomas Cochran

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A History of American Art
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A History of American Art

by Daniel M. Mendelowitz

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This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine, edges and corner of the cover. There is some dog-earring on the right corner pages of the book. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. "This is a history of the visual arts produced in the geographical area that now constitutes the United States. Such a book is difficult to title. A History of United States Art sounds awkward and logically might even be construed to exclude the arts of the colonial period. Thus, with apologies to our northern and southern neighbors, I use the title A History of American Art, knowing full well that the terms America and the United States are not synonymous...." - Preface from A History of American Art
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Beeswax:  Production, Harvesting, Processing and Procuts
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Beeswax: Production, Harvesting, Processing and Procuts

by Coggshall, William L & Roger A Morse

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New York: Wicwas Press, 1984. 8vo size trade paperback; 192 pages with a few illustrations and photographs Contents include: Beeswax Grading and Economics Harvesting Beeswax Commercial Preparation of Beeswax for Market Testing Beeswax Beeswax in Comb Foundation Beeswax in Candles Beeswax in Art and Industry Showing and Judging Beeswax Home Products including Candles and Car and Floor Polishes Moderate wear and edgewear to covers, light soil to top of book and shelf soil to bottom fore-edge. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey

Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River

by John B. Wyeth

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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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A Rebel Came Home: The Diary and Letters of Floride Clemson, 1863-1866
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A Rebel Came Home: The Diary and Letters of Floride Clemson, 1863-1866

by Lander & McGee (editors)

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Top edge of jacket slightly flared but overall in excellent condition. Book itself is clean and free of any markings except for previous owner's name on first page (Jeanne M. Nixon). Book has some light shelf wear to corners and spine is slightly canted. Solid binding. 189 indexed pages. 0.75" X 6.25" X 9.25" 2cm X 16cm X 23.5cm Part of the series "Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century South". Illustrated by Olivia Jackson McGee with additional black and white photo reproductions. Includes a family tree. The Revised edition includes additional material in the form of letters between Floride and her mother Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson between July-October 1863 at the height of the Civil War. The main body of the book is Floride's journal from January 1863 until 1866. The main sections concern Florida's trip to Niagara in summer 1863, the journey form Beltsville Maryland to Pendleton South Carolina at the end of the 1864, and the last says of Floride's grandmother Mr.s John C. Calhoun in… Read More
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America's War for Humanity: Including a Complete History of the World War Up-To-date
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America's War for Humanity: Including a Complete History of the World War Up-To-date

by Russell, Thomas H

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USA: L. W. Walter, 1917. Hardcover with no dust jacket, 1917. Book has heavier corner wear to board corners and edges, and spinefoot, and aging and some soiling to cloth. This book has blue cloth with navy and red text and design. Tipped plate of American flag on center of front board. Interior tanning heavily from age and book has light warping from age and moisture. Has small bookworm hole affecting the upper right corner of pages 23- 83, completely out of the way of any text and only about 1/2 inch in depth. Missing page corner as depicted, affecting the first front illustration page, affects a small amount of caption text, and the edges of 2 photos. Book generally lays flat and is readable and is fairly supple, Binding is decent and will permit reading. Fair condition, but not terrible for its age. 100+ illustrations. A peice of history, as this was basically news when this was printed. RARE EDITION: NOT A REPRINT. THIS IS THE REAL DEAL.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo -… Read More
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Samuel The Seeker
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Samuel The Seeker

by Sinclair, Upton

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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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The Lick Observatory of the University of California, Eleventh Edition, 1947

The Lick Observatory of the University of California, Eleventh Edition, 1947

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University of California Press, 1947. 11th. Paperback. Author unstated : The Lick Observatory of the University of California - A Brief Descriptive Account Prepared at the Observatory. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1947. Eleventh Edition. Stapled booklet, size is demy octavo (8vo), 8 1/8"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's dark green wrapper stapled to textblock. [vi] pp prelim material, 47 numbered pp, plus three blank. Glossy paper. In addition to many b&w photos, included is information for visitors, organizational info about the observatory, its Chile station, its students, features it observed, acknowledgments. Condition notes: Staples rusted, but holding, moderate wear and scuffing but no tears to wrappers. No notes or highlighting. The observatory is on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, CA. We learn that the observatory was the gift of James Lick, who also left money to support building of a monument to Francis Scott Key in San Francisco, "...a Home for Old Ladies in San Francisco..." and… Read More
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To the Golden Door

To the Golden Door

by Potter, George

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Bobby Fischer Goes to War (SIGNED) (FIRST EDITION)
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War (SIGNED) (FIRST EDITION): How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time

by David; Eidinow, John Edmonds

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2004 - SIGNED by one of the authors on the title page - FIRST EDITION stated "1" present - book: very good+ - tight, sound, and square - all pages are clean and unmarked - not remainder - dj: very good+ - no chips or tears - not price clipped (NPC) - slight amount of edgewear "In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men -- the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer -- met in the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film."
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp

Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp

by William R. Gillis

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William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.
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