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THE OVERLAND JOURNEY OF JOSEPH FRANCL: The First Bohemian To Cross the Plains to the California Gold Fields
by (BRAUTIGAN, Richard) FRANCL, Joseph
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: William P. Wreden, 1968. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine/Fine. 55 pp. Illustrated with highly stylized line drawings by Patricia Oberhaus. Typographic design by Jack Werner Stauffacher, at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Set in Monotype Baskerville and Walbaum types; binding by the Schuberth Bookbindery. Limited to 540 unnumbered copies. Pictorial brown paper over boards. Paper spine label. Small Quarto.The imaginative Introduction by Richard Brautigan and the illustrations make this very much a product of San Francisco in the Sixties. A most unusual overland publication. A Fine Copy in a Fine plain paper jacket with custom spine titling. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.
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- Bookseller
- Hardy Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2775
- Title
- THE OVERLAND JOURNEY OF JOSEPH FRANCL: The First Bohemian To Cross the Plains to the California Gold Fields
- Author
- (BRAUTIGAN, Richard) FRANCL, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William P. Wreden
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- art sixties braughtigan greenwood press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana; Art; San Francisco; Overland;
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Hardy Books
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Nevada City, California
About Hardy Books
Hardy Books is a rare and out-of-print book and ephemera seller located in Nevada City, California, in the heart of the California Northern Mines Gold Country. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) and follow the IOBA Code of Ethics.
Our specialties are Californiana, Western Americana, Books About Books, Fine Press, Original Posters and Movie books, photos and ephemera.
Our specialties are Californiana, Western Americana, Books About Books, Fine Press, Original Posters and Movie books, photos and ephemera.
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