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Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1994. Second Edition. Softcover. 0826315003 . Introduction to the first edition by Robert Glass Cleland. ; 8.50 X 5.50 X 0.60 inches .

The Huntington Library, 1949 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unmarked, Clean And Solid. Black Covers With Gold Inset On Front Cover Showing Two Men Kneeling And Panning For Gold. Gold Lettering On Spine. Dust Jacket With Small Cuts And Tiny Bits Missing From Edges; Dj Now In Protective Mylar Jacket..

Huntington Library, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Ix, 99 Pp. Black Cloth, Spine Gilt, Illustration On Front Cover. First Printing, With 1949 Date On Title Page. Fine; Ownership Signature Of Pasadena Author Earle Hugens. Dust Jacket Priced $3.50, Light Usage, Small Edge Tears And Losses.

San Marino, CA:: The Huntington Library,, 1949.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good+ in a good+ dustjacket (prev owner's name stamp on front endpaper, peeled spot on spine on dj, chip on front.). First printing. According to family tradition, Mary Jane Megquier was the first white woman to cross the Isthmus of Panama during the Gold Rush, She left her home in Winthrop, Maine to accompany her husband, a physician, to San Francisco. Illustrations. 99 pages. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press.

San Marino: Huntington Library, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. 99 pages. Edited by Robert Glass Cleland. Illustrated. The wifeof one of the first American physicians to open an office in San Francisco. Life of San Francisco society in the early days of the Gold Rush.

San Marino: Huntington Library, 1949. 1st Edition. ix, 99p., b/w illus., lightly chipped dj.

San Marino.: Huntington Library., 1949.. First edition.. Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). . Octavo.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

San Marino, CA:: The Huntington Library,, 1949.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a slightly edgeworn dustjacket (price-clipped, a few small chips missing). First printing. According to family tradition, Mary Jane Megquier was the first white woman to cross the Isthmus of Panama during the Gold Rush, She left her home in Winthrop, Maine to accompany her husband, a physician, to San Francisco. Illustrations. 99 pages. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press.

San Marino, California:: Huntington Library, 1949.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black cloth with gilt spine text, paste-on vignette on the front board; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good- dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) . Description: Includes a frontis plus seven additional black and white plates. From the jacket blurb: ''According to family tradition, Mary Jane Megquier was the first white woman to cross the Isthmus of Panama during the Gold Rush. Whatever the truth of the tradition, the reader of the letters will remember her as the typical pioneer woman of the Great Migration. With unfailing courage and a saving sense of humor, she met fires, floods, vigilantes and housekeeping trials with undaunted spirit. From her tiny dwelling overlooking the busy bay of San Francisco her letters to her children bring to life the noisy, turbulent city, with its disasters and troubles matched by gay social affairs,… Read More

San Marino: Madison County Historical Society, 1949. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket w/extremity wear. Octavo; ix, 99 pages. Dr. Bieber's signature to ffep. Kurutz 436.

San Marino, Calif. , Huntington Library, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and suprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 99 pages; Description: ix, 99 p. Illus. , port. 24 cm. ""From manuscripts in the Huntington Library."" Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Megquier, Mary Jane, 1813-1899 --Correspondence. Voyages to the Pacific coast. Frontier and pioneer life --California. California --Gold discoveries. Series: Huntington Library publications