The Big Oak Flat Road, an Accounting of Freighting from Stockton to Yosemite Valley.
by PADEN, Irene & Margaret E. SCHLICHTMANN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: The Author, 1955. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Tall octavo. vi, 356 pp. with folding map at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and cover illustration of an oak. An excellent copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75831
- Title
- The Big Oak Flat Road, an Accounting of Freighting from Stockton to Yosemite Valley.
- Author
- PADEN, Irene & Margaret E. SCHLICHTMANN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Author
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
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Portland, Oregon
About Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....