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California Its History and Romance
by John S. McGroarty
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles, California: Grafton Publishing Compant, 1911. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. DeLuxe Patron Leather Binding with Signed Presentation Page! Excellent volume covering the breadth of California history, 1911, Detailed work of California History in 10 chapters and 8 appendicies, 11 excellent illustrations with fancy titled tissue guards, frontispiece full color and additional plates sepia toned, 393 pages plus several pages with facsimile signatures of Patrons of the Book. Presentation page on third free page with gold embossed bear, Charles E. Moore in ink and signed by author John S. McGroarty. Book is perhaps near Fine, very clean publisher's green pebbled calf, the spine is sunned to tan along with a bit of the top edge of the front and rear board, light wear to corners, patron name in gilt on front board, top edge gilt, inner board edge in elaborate gilt dentelles, marbled end pages and great untrimmed for edge. Text and illustrations are Fine. Most presentable Patron presentation copy. (we discounted the. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002930
- Title
- California Its History and Romance
- Author
- John S. McGroarty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Grafton Publishing Compant
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles, California
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- California History, Presentation Copy
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
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About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- Jacket
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- Sunned
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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....
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