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Berkeley:: University of California Press,, 1942.. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Fine in a near fine, slightly dust-soiled jacket.. 12mo,.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo. Pp. xv, 178. Frontis. journal facsimile. Illustrated with three additional facsimiles. Bibliography, index. Dark red cloth, titles and decoration stamped in gilt on the spine, edges trimmed. In the printed dust jacket, unclipped. Author signed on front endpaper. Top edge lightly soiled. Two faint stains on the jacket front, one quarter-inch closed tear on back. The University of California librarian, bibliographer and historian of the American West's life of a quixotic journalist and pamphleteer. Early immigrant Charles Edward Pickett railed against legal and political corruption during the US conquest of California. This is one of the brightest copies to pass through our inventory. Dust jacket now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1942. xv, 178p., b/w front., dj.

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1942. A beautiful copy. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($1.50). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp and unmarked. 1942. First Edition. Author's compliments slip laid in. Illustrated with 4 plates. Bound in the original gilt-stamped red cloth. From the dust jacket: "Charles Edward Pickett... came to California from Virginia in 1846… He took part in the provisional government of Oregon; he was at Sutter's Fort just after the Bear Flag Revolt, and in Yerba Buena when the American flag was first raised. He voyaged to the Sandwich Islands, whence he imported the first wool-bearing sheep into California. As a journalist in Oregon, he issued, in manuscript form, the first newspaper on the Pacific Coast, and later edited… Leer más

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1942. cloth, dust jacket. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 178 pages. First edition.

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1942. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 178; frontispiece facsimile of the Flumgudgeon Gazette, 2 plates, and 1 illustration in the text; very good in original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine and a somewhat soiled and rubbed dustjacket. This copy signed by the author on the title-page in blue ink and with the small pictorial printed plate of The Holmes Book Co., Oakland, CA, mounted to back pastedown. "Including also," as the title-page states, "unpublished letters written by [Pickett] from Yerba Buena at the time of the conquest of California by the United States in 1846-47."

University of California Press, 2022. Paperback. New. 198 pages. 7.81x5.06x0.50 inches.

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Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1942. cloth, dust jacket. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 178 pages. First edition. Presentation on free endpaper "For Bill Wreden, good bookman, good friend, Larry Powell, UCLA, 1948.

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