A Frenchman in the Gold Rush: The Journal of Ernest de Massey, Argonaut of 1849
by de Massey, Ernest
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine: spot of light sunning (approx. 1 square inch) to top of upper cover
- Seller
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About This Item
California Historical Society, San Francisco, 1927. Fine: spot of light sunning (approx. 1 square inch) to top of upper cover. First Edition 10 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches, 183 pages, blue cloth with lettering in gold, Dust Jacket (front panel torn, chip to spine), Special Publication No. 2 of the Society, translated from the original manuscript housed in the Los Angeles Public Library. Includes 3 plates not in pagination and 3 pages of illustrations in text. Cowan (II) page 165. Kurutz item 185.
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- Bookseller
- Dawson's Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- A Frenchman in the Gold Rush: The Journal of Ernest de Massey, Argonaut of 1849
- Author
- de Massey, Ernest
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine: spot of light sunning (approx. 1 square inch) to top of upper cover
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- California Historical Society, San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1927
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