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The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience
by Holliday, J.S
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671255371
- ISBN 13
- 9780671255374
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster, 1981. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book Club Edition indicated by statement of front flap and no price indicated. Otherwise text block, including copyright page show info from 1981 Simon & Schuster publication including complete number line with number one. Hard cover in very good condition with brown boards and gold gilt spine lettering; mild bumps to corners, small nick at bottom front, wear to heel of spine. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. End papers show maps of routes to California in 1849. Dust jacket in good condition; shelf wear, edge wear at corners, chips to head & heel of spine; 1"" closed tear along fold between front panel and spine. 559 numbered pages; concludes with Appendix, Notes to the Chapters, Sources, and a comprehensive Index. Contains 13 maps and 40 illustrations. * From the book jacket, ""...A pioneering achievement in the use of historical documents, this book is at once an intimate, personal story and an all-encompassing record of the gold rush as national experience....""
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- Seller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- M001168
- Title
- The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience
- Author
- Holliday, J.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671255371
- ISBN 13
- 9780671255374
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- History, California - History - 1846-1850, California Gold Discoveries, William Swain - 1821-1904.
- Bookseller catalogs
- History of the United States;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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....
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
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