California Gold Rush Merchant by Davis Stephen (24 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Reprint, c.r. 1956. Hard cover 8vo in tan cloth w/ black spine titles and logo. Fine/No DJ (as issued?). xvii, 124pp inc. Notes, Index. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Xvii, 124 Pp. Red-Brown Cloth Spine With Paper Label, Patterned Boards. First Printing With 1956 Date On Title Page. Fine In Fine Clear Glassine Dust Jacket, As Issued. Finely Made Bookplate With A Reproduction Of A 1497 Medical Engraving.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Near fine condition hard cover book. Covers in publisher's acetate. 124 pages including index.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. minor wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by editor Benjamin richard.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Would be Very Fine save for a small indentation on the rear cover. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.

Hardcover. 124pp. Faintly spotted edges & endpapers, bookplate, else very good with text clean and binding tight / mylar cover.

The Huntington Library: San Marino, CA 1956. Map, 9x6", cloth backed boards, 124 w/index, corner bumped, some tobacco yellowing else ok.

v.good. owner stamp.

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in glassine wrapper. 124 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Edited by Benjamin B. Richards. Pp. xvii, [1], 124. Map, notes, index. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. A very fine copy. Signed by noted author, E. Geoffrey Bangs. Presents the gold rush through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old merchant. "Davis and his brother, Josiah, of Nashua, New Hampshire, sailed from New York City via Panama for San Francisco and the gold fields. The journal begins on June 1, 1850, and concludes on May 26, 1854, with some gaps. The brothers operated a successful mercantile operation in Long Bar on the Yuba River before trying their luck in Oregon. Unsuccessful, they returned home. Stephen's description of their return trip across the Isthmus of Panama and of a riot between natives and Americans is dramatic. Tired of the New England climate, Stephen left for California on January 21, 1852, and kept a store at Coulterville, on Maxwell's Creek for the next two years. News of his brother's death ended his California adventure in April, 1854" (Kurutz). [Gudde: p.393; Kurutz: 169; Rocq: 15770]. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Signed by the Editor, Benjamin B. Richards. Pp. xvii, [1], 124. Map, notes, index. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. A very fine copy. Presents the gold rush through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old merchant. "Davis and his brother, Josiah, of Nashua, New Hampshire, sailed from New York City via Panama for San Francisco and the gold fields. The journal begins on June 1, 1850, and concludes on May 26, 1854, with some gaps. The brothers operated a successful mercantile operation in Long Bar on the Yuba River before trying their luck in Oregon. Unsuccessful, they returned home. Stephen's description of their return trip across the Isthmus of Panama and of a riot between natives and Americans is dramatic. Tired of the New England climate, Stephen left for California on January 21, 1852, and kept a store at Coulterville, on Maxwell's Creek for the next two years. News of his brother's death ended his California adventure in April, 1854" (Kurutz). [Gudde: p.393; Kurutz: 169; Rocq: 15770]. Book.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 152. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1956 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 152.