The Adventures of a Forty-Niner; an Historic Description of California with Events and ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days
by Knower, Daniel
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- Condition
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Albany, NY: Weed-Parsons, 1894. 12mo. 200p. An unusually bright, clean copy of a scarce book with a bright picture of the large building of the building of the Society of California Pioneers. HIs first-hand accounts present a colorful picture of early San Francisco and its characters. Along the waterfront, his purchase of property in North Beach which he said sold since it had no future, the insane gambling where fortunes in bags of gold were lost in minutes, and the characters who wandered the streets (perhaps unchanged today). Illustrations throughout. Cowan 330; Kurutz 381.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016241
- Title
- The Adventures of a Forty-Niner; an Historic Description of California with Events and ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days
- Author
- Knower, Daniel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Weed-Parsons
- Place of Publication
- Albany, NY
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- San Francisco in the Gold Rush;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana; Regional America;
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...