Once Upon a Desert: A Bicentennial Project.
by Keeling, Patricia Jernigan (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: reddish brown faux leather with gilt text; a Very Good+ book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on t
- ISBN 10
- 0918614015
- ISBN 13
- 9780918614018
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
Barstow, California:: Mojave River Valley Museum, 1977.. 2nd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: reddish brown faux leather with gilt text; a Very Good+ book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 4to (11.25 inches tall) . Indexes, bibliography. Map endpapers (different maps front and rear). Description: Well illustrated with historic photographs. A history of the San Bernardino County area in California. This presents story selections from a vast area of the Greater Mojave Desert. A collection of well researched articles and stories by both published and unpublished authors, with the addition of several personal experience narratives about life and times in the Mojave River Valley. The time period span from the 'Trek of the Centuries' made by Father Francisco Garces in 1776, to modern times. Originally published in 1976; this is the second printing.
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 064758
- Title
- Once Upon a Desert: A Bicentennial Project.
- Author
- Keeling, Patricia Jernigan (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: reddish brown faux leather with gilt text; a Very Good+ book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on t
- Edition
- 2nd Printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0918614015
- ISBN 13
- 9780918614018
- Publisher
- Mojave River Valley Museum
- Place of Publication
- Barstow, California:
- Date Published
- 1977.
- Pages
- 260 pages.
- Size
- 4to (11.25 inches tall)
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