HAND-BOOK ALMANAC OF THE PACIFIC STATES: An Official Register and Year-Book of Facts, for the Year 1862
by Knight, Wm. H. editor
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Covers worn and stained, neat repair to top of spine and top of front joint, a few pencil notes in text, lacking last page (adve
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San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft and Co, 1862. First edition. Hardcover. Covers worn and stained, neat repair to top of spine and top of front joint, a few pencil notes in text, lacking last page (advertisement). 190 pp., small octavo, original brown cloth with gilt title, endpapers printed with advertisements.
Bancroft's first almanac, fairly scarce in commerce. Cowan p. 11.
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- Chanticleer Books (US)
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- 21346
- Title
- HAND-BOOK ALMANAC OF THE PACIFIC STATES: An Official Register and Year-Book of Facts, for the Year 1862
- Author
- Knight, Wm. H. editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Covers worn and stained, neat repair to top of spine and top of front joint, a few pencil notes in text, lacking last page (adve
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- H. H. Bancroft and Co
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1862
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