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China Trade Days in California: Selected Letters from the Thompson Papers, 1832 -1863
by BROWN, D. Mackenzie (editor)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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About This Item
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Small 8vo. Pp. xv, 94. Frontis. Alpheus B. Thompson portrait daguerreotype. Foreword by Robert Glass Cleland. With notes, bibliography and index of persons. Red cloth, titles stamped in black on the spine and on the cover with Thompson brand illustration repeated on the title page in red. In the two color illustrated dust jacket with price $3.00 intact on both flaps: edges gently rubbed, spine color quite minimally sunned. A fascinating glimpse into the nascent Pacific Rim trade. From the blurb: Thompson was a Yankee sea captain and trader who married a Carrillo of Santa Barbara and was for many years an important figure in the new far-western land.
A well-preserved copy with dust jacket, normally quite rubbed, now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7134
- Title
- China Trade Days in California: Selected Letters from the Thompson Papers, 1832 -1863
- Author
- BROWN, D. Mackenzie (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley and Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1947
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About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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