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Seller's Description:
Fine. Book One of 550 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Edited by Oscar Lewis. Thin quarto. x, [64]pp. Frontis portrait of Commodore Stockton, four facsimile color lithographs, 5 facsimile documents. Handset Bauer Bodoni type. Black cloth spine, gilt-stamped blue boards, paper spine label. A very fine and bright copy with plain blue dust jacket (darkened at edges). Includes Larkin's report on conditions in California on the eve of the Conquest; a contemporary account of events printed in "The Farthest West, " 1846; a letter from E. M. Kern giving contemporary views of a participant in the early stages of the Conquest; and a letter from Lieut. Colonel Cooke in command of the Mormon Battalion. Also included are biographical sketches of the important figures in the American Conquest. One of the Fifty Books of the Year. Grabhorn Second Series of Rare Americana, Number 5. [Grabhorn: 209].
