Forty-Niners, The Chronicle of the California Trail
by Archer Butler Hulbert
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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TORRINGTON, Wyoming, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Drawings and Illustrations. G/none, used hc, viii-xvii, 340 pages. Green colored cloth over boards with gilt text on upper and spine; blind stamped; text on spine rubbed; corners bumped; shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Front and back paste down has paper layers removed in head part of board. Interior pages are clean, unmarked. Several pages must have been uncut at one time but previous owner tore them open resulted in ragged edges. Included in text is words and music to songs sung along the trail, poetry and diary entries.
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- Bookseller
- PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014678
- Title
- Forty-Niners, The Chronicle of the California Trail
- Author
- Archer Butler Hulbert
- Illustrator
- Drawings and Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1931
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Archer Butler Hulbert, Forty-Niners, California Trail, Western Expansion, Gold Rush
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PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
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About the Seller
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
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TORRINGTON, Wyoming
About PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
We specialize in western history, gun knife and hunting titles. Also try to stock Wyoming history titles. We have a walk-in store on US Hwy 26/85 the most direct route to Fort Laramie National History site..We have what I think is the largest seleciton of weapons titles in SE Wyoming, both new and used. Always looking for good used weapons titles.
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