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A Golden Highway
by Glasscock, C. B
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Missing
- Seller
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Manhattan Beach, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Bobbs Merrill,, 1934. hardcover. Acceptable/Missing. 0x0x0. A.L. Burt Company, published by arrangement with Bobbs Merrill Co. [Published date: 1934]. Hard cover, 333 pages Reprint. Acceptable/ NO dust jacket. Green and red cloth covered boards have fraying and tearing to the cloth of the edges of the spine. Spine tanned from sun exposure. Moderate overall aging, scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Previous owner's names and dates in ink on front free end paper. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but clean and unmarked. Missing dust jacket. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. A good reading copy. Includes 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : maps on lining papers. Glasscock combines a 1930s road trip to all the old mining camps made famous during the California gold rush with a history of those camps. Starting from Portland Square, San Francisco, he visits the sites of all the important gold strikes and writes of their past and present (1930's).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Epilonian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20240327015
- Title
- A Golden Highway
- Author
- Glasscock, C. B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Jacket Condition
- Missing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bobbs Merrill,
- Date Published
- 1934
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 1.00 lbs
- Keywords
- History, Gold rush, California
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Epilonian Books
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Manhattan Beach, California
About Epilonian Books
Epilonian Books is a small bookseller dedicated to preserving ephemera and any esoteric or imminently extinct written work.
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- Reading Copy
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