GOLD STRIKES AND GHOST TOWNS : A Photographic Tour Through the Historic Mining Camps and Ghost Towns...
by Webb, Todd
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
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Berkeley, California, United States
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Todd Webb (Author-Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Black linen boards/VG; strong & sound w/light edge and surface rubs. DJ/Poor; intact w/nips, chips, rubs. closed tears & small losses to all leading edges. Maps to endpapers; tape residue to fEP. A photographic documentary of mining camps and ghost towns of California, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana by award winning photographer Todd Webb (1905 - 2000) whose keen eye for everyday life and architecture is not often rivaled. This study of famous old diggings is presented in 4 sections: I, The Mother Lode - California; 2, The Comstock Lode; 3, Colorado - Pikes Peak or Bust; and, 4, Gold- and Silver-Mining Camps - Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. Webb tells us sites were dictated often by "whimsy of time, luck (both good and bad), available money, weather, ... flatires, a cracked radiator, and other trivia." Strong copy in a no longer attractive dust jacket.
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- 100 POCKETS (US)
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- Title
- GOLD STRIKES AND GHOST TOWNS : A Photographic Tour Through the Historic Mining Camps and Ghost Towns...
- Author
- Webb, Todd
- Illustrator
- Todd Webb (Author-Photographer)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- History/Documenatry/America/Historic Sites/Mining Camps/Ghost Towns
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- Essays/Prose Narratives;
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