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Driven From Sea To Sea: Or, Just A Campin'
by Post, C. C. (Charles Cyrel)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Elliott & Beezley. Good+. 1889. Reprint. Hardcover. C. C. Post (1846 - was a Shiawassee County, Michigan-born lawyer and author who was involved in the anti-monopoly movement, founded the School of Psychic Research,and authored several books. This is sometimes considered to be an early muckracking novel which lays blame for the Mussel Slough Tragedy in California at the feet of the Southern Pacific Railroad; much of. Original pictorial brown cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering and black illustration of covered wagons. This was the author's first book. This edition contains: Part II, "Bodies Without Souls, Dangers that Threaten Us," which is not in the first edition. This is an early reprint of the first edition (which was published in 1884). Post wrote the popular "Ten Years a Cowboy" in 1886 (but it was titled differently when it was first published). The spine slightly worn with a crack to the inner hinge; usual browning to pages from this publisher; child scrawl (mostly erased) on p 184 and 185). Ref: Wright 4351 ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 414 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 777
- Title
- Driven From Sea To Sea: Or, Just A Campin'
- Author
- Post, C. C. (Charles Cyrel)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Elliott & Beezley
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- Americana, Western Americana, Fiction, 19th Century, California
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About the Seller
Peninsula Books
Biblio member since 2023
Traverse City, Michigan
About Peninsula Books
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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