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Men of California
by Wellington C. Wolfe, ed
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/none as issued
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Pacific Art Company, 1901. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good/none as issued. A gorgeous first edition in full pebbled leather boards. Maroon pebbled leather boards with bright gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Rubbing to joints and bottom edge. Corners bumped, rubbed. Shelfwear to crown and foot. Binding is sturdy and square. All edges bright gilt. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Stamp of Frank Marston, The Original Creamerie on verso of first free endpaper with note pointing to his photo in the book. All plates present. Tissue guards fine. Page 440 has a small fold and miniscule tear on the fore edge. 440 pp. including the address directory. Octavo, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall. Includes portraits of Jack London, Lippincott, Pinkerton, Ambrose Bierce; Hubert Howe Bancroft, Charles Lummis, Joaquin Miller and other famous Californians.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1014
- Title
- Men of California
- Author
- Wellington C. Wolfe, ed
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- none as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pacific Art Company
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1901
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- industry, banking, literature, California, history
- Bookseller catalogs
- California & the West;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Uncommon Works
Biblio member since 2014
Gridley, California
About Uncommon Works
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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