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Palo Alto, CA: Lewis Osborne, 1968 Palo Alto, CA: Lewis Osborne, 1968 81 (2) pp with a fold-out title page and B&W illustrations in text. Endpapers have additional illustrations. Hand numbered 702 of an edition of 2100. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Handsome cream cloth boards with a gold-stamped outline of a miner are clean and undamaged. Plain cream-colored paper wrappershave light soiil and edgewear. Limited Edition of 2100. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good Minus. 7.5" x 11".. Limited Edition of 2100.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Minus.

Palo Alto, CA: Lewis Osborne. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 81 pages; Plain white dust jacket with some browning around edges. .

Palo Alto.: Lewis Osborne., 1968.. First edition thus. . Hard cover. . Fine copy. . Octavo.. Illustrated. Folding broadside laid in. Limited edition of 958 copies, Very scarce in this condition. number 1,409. Important reference work.

Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1968 First book edition. Limited to 2,100 copies. Introduction by Richard H. Dillon. 80pp. Illustrations portraits, facsimiles; endpaper map. White cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. A fine copy. Includes the contemporary accounts of Hittell, James W. Marshall, and Edwin G. Waite. The text was first printed in Century Magazine, February and May, 1891. Laid is a facsimile of the Californian newspaper for March 15, 1848, the first newspaper notice of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill. [Kurutz: 335]..