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Golden Gate Country
by Gertrude Atherton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/poor
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/poor. A good plus first edition, as stated, in a poor dust jacket. Buckram covered boards with brown crest and title stamping on spine. Tape marring rear cover, residue on front cover. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Map endpapers showing tape residue.Wartime paper announcemnt on copyright page. In a price clipped dust jacket with loss and tears on spine of jacket, running all the way to front flap. 256 pp. including index. An addition to the Folkways Series of regional books that will have added sales on the strength of the author's name. The text varies from most of these books in focusing largely on the past history of that part of California around San Francisco -- a recapitulation of those factors, -- human, racial, national, geographic, that contributed largely to the growth of that most fascinating and most beloved of American cities. To anyone who knows the region, the book will have nostalgic values, it will stimulate curiosity in the depicting of many little known facets of her past. To those to whom San Francisco and its environs are unknown, this will add little of the actual feel of the region though the personalities who made it come alive. Anecdotal quality (symptom of the author as novelist, perhaps?) is strong -- the book reads like a delightful collection of stories of the region, against a dramatic historical backdrop. But -- from the earthquake and fire on, the interest drops." -- Kirkus Reviews
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1032
- Title
- Golden Gate Country
- Author
- Gertrude Atherton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan, & Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- California -- History. San Francisco (Calif.) -- History. San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs. Manners and customs. California. California -- San Francisco.
- Bookseller catalogs
- California & the West;
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
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