Three Years in California, or, Land of Gold; vol. 2: Land and Lee in the Bosphorus and Aegean, or Views of Constantinople and Athens, and notes of France and Italy; vol. 3: Ship and Shore, or, Madeira, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean and Sea and Sailor; vol. 4: Deck and Port, or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California, with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu and San Francisco. [4 matching volumes sold together.]
by Rev. Walter Colton, U.S.N
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good minus/Without dust jacket
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Cleaves, Macdonald & Co.: Boston, 1886. Early reprint. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Without dust jacket. All volumes octavo, 7 2/3†tall, vol. 1: 456 pages + fold out reproduction of the California Constitution; vol. 2: 441 pages; vol. 3: 389 pages; vol. 4: 408 pages; all volumes contain a few plate pages; gilt spine titles on green and brown cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, neat hard cover edition with moderate shelf wear, slight exterior soiling and , and rubbing at the fore-corner tipss, binding tight, paper moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58845
- Title
- Three Years in California, or, Land of Gold; vol. 2: Land and Lee in the Bosphorus and Aegean, or Views of Constantinople and Athens, and notes of France and Italy; vol. 3: Ship and Shore, or, Madeira, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean and Sea and Sailor; vol. 4: Deck and Port, or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California, with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu and San Francisco. [4 matching volumes sold together.]
- Author
- Rev. Walter Colton, U.S.N
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good minus
- Jacket Condition
- Without dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early reprint
- Publisher
- Cleaves, Macdonald & Co.: Boston
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- History, Biography, Memoir, California Gold Rush
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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