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LIFE ON THE PLAINS AND AMONG THE DIGGINGS; BEING SCENES AND ADVENTURES OF AN OVERLAND JOURNEY TO CALIFORNIA: WITH PARTICULAR INCIDENTS OF THE ROUTE, MISTAKES AND SUFFERINGS OF THE EMIGRANTS...
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Auburn & Buffalo: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854. 384pp. plus four plates (including frontispiece). Modern marbled paper-covered boards, gilt leather label. Binding a bid tender in a couple places, minor foxing, scattered damp- staining to the top edge. Good. Designated "third thousand" at the head of the titlepage, with the same collation and plates as the first edition, and issued in the same year. Delano went overland in 1849, and became one of the leading literary chroniclers of the gold rush as "Old Block." A factual account of the trip and life at the diggings. "One of the most forceful accounts of the journey to and of adventure in the mines of California, by a gifted observer and writer..." - Wheat. MINTZ 121. WAGNER-CAMP 238:3. HOWES D230. COWAN, p.163. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 57. KURUTZ 177c. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 132 (ref).
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- LIFE ON THE PLAINS AND AMONG THE DIGGINGS; BEING SCENES AND ADVENTURES OF AN OVERLAND JOURNEY TO CALIFORNIA: WITH PARTICULAR INCIDENTS OF THE ROUTE, MISTAKES AND SUFFERINGS OF THE EMIGRANTS...
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- Delano, Alonzo
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- Miller, Orton & Mulligan
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- Auburn & Buffalo
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- 1854
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New Haven, Connecticut
Sobre William Reese Company
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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