Seventy- Five Years in California by Davis, William Heath - 1967

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San Francisco: John Howell, 1929. Hardcover. Fair. Limited to 2250 copies. 422 pp. Color frontispiece of San Francisco in 1849. Index. Ex-library book in original cloth, smudged, spine mark, stickers on rear cover. Few normal markings to endpapers etc, else interior clean and secure.Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box.

John Howell - Books, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book near fine, clean and strong. Pages are pristine with no marks noted to text. Matte dust jacket with cornucopia logo matching cloth of book is clean with some moisture staining at spine, small tears at edges. Nice clean copy overall.

John Howell, 1967. Hardcover. Like New/vg. Fine in vg dust jacket colored plates book appears unused

San Francisco CA: John Howell, 1967. rep . Hardcover. Good/None. 345 pages. Some color and black & white illustrations. Edited by Harold A. Small. Foxing to top edge at spine. Record # 801693

San Francisco: John Howell. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-titled cloth. Limited to 2500 copies. Upper points slightly bumped, trace soil to edge. The DJ in mylar is mildly edgeworn. ; quarto .

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

John Howell-Books, 1929. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth, very good copy. Second edition. Zamorano Eighty 27: "A thoroughly readable account of life in Pastoral California, mainly before the American conquest.Davis came to California by sea in 1831, became a successful merchant and recorded his memories of men and events in this trustworthy book. The edition of 1929 is preferable." Herd 659: "A scarce book with chapters on the cattle industry of California." Cowan p. 160. Graff 1020. Howes D136. Libros Californianos: "The second.edition is by far the best, containing a fine index, numerous illustrations, many valuable appendices, and a comprehensive introduction by Douglas S. Watson.

San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1967. First Edition Thus. Limited edition of 2500 copies and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. 4to. 345pp. 19 plates (some in color; 4 folding). Editied with an historical foreword and Index by Douglas S. Watson. A fine copy in publisher's fine dustjacket; as new. Recollections and remarks by one visited these shores in 1831, and again in 1833, and except when absent on business was a resident for 1838 until the end of a long life in 1909. "The definitive edition of the most readable book on nineteenth-century century California - an outstanding eyewitness account." - Howell 50 California 1261 (Cowan pg. 160; Howes D136; Kurutz 170c; Sloan Zamorano 80 27A).