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Valley of Salt, Memories of Wine A Journal of Death Valley, 1849
by Nusbaumer, Louis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley, Calif.: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1967. First Edition. Near fine in light green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto of 10 1/4 by 7 inches with a bump to the heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket. 68 pages of text followed by a fold-out map at the rear. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB31854
- Title
- Valley of Salt, Memories of Wine A Journal of Death Valley, 1849
- Author
- Nusbaumer, Louis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Friends of the Bancroft Library
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, Calif.
- Date Published
- 1967
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Heel
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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