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Seventy-Five Years in California
Seventy-Five Years in California
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Description
Heading: (Zamorano 80)
Author: Davis, William Heath
Title: Seventy-Five Years in California
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:John Howell
Date Published: 1929
Description:

Edited and with historical foreword and index by Douglas S. Watson. Illustrated from numerous facsimile letters, reproductions of engravings, photographs, etc.; folding facsimile of the California Star, March 15th, 1848 (first local mention of gold discovery) tipped-in at back. (Large 8vo) blue cloth, gilt seal of California on front cover, spine lettered in gilt; top edge stained yellow; housed in custom slipcase. One of 2250 copies, printed at the Lakeside Press. Second Edition.

First published in 1889 as Sixty Years in California, with textual additions and numerous new illustrations and facsimiles. Howes notes the work as "Most valuable California reminiscences." Adams Herd 659; Cowan p.160; Graff 1020; Howes D136; Kurutz 170b; Zamorano 80 #27.

Condition
One side of slipcase edges toned; small tear at spine head; bookplate on verso of ffep; near fine.
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Seventy-Five Years in California

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