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Seller's Description:
Very good. First Edition. No DJ. Scuffed covers with some staining. Lightly read. Inked previous owner name on front free page: Stephen S. Barrows, Berkeley, California. Inked notes on inside front cover. Page of inked notes attached to rear free page appear to be notes about the Breckenridge Chivalry Convention at Sacramento, notes copied from a book with reference to page numbers. Newspaper article glued to rear free page: Last of Bandini Sisters is Dead. Dona Arcadia Baker passes Away at her Home in Santa Monica. 15.
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Good in Acceptable jacket. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912; same date on title and copyright pages, no additional printings indicated; xiv, [1 tipped-in list of illustrations], 361pp. VG hardcover in poor condition jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light wear to edges of red cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; gilt top edge remains bright and nearly flawless; photos/illustrations and text very good; previous owner name in pencil on front end page. Dust jacket is heavily worn at edges, with both flaps detached or nearly detached; minor rubbing to panels, text remains bold and clearly legible; jacket chipped over spine ends as well; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Very good+ condition. Good+ condition (DJ) Book. Octavo (8vo). xvi, 361 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minor fading to the top of the spine and minimal shelfwear. The price-clipped dustjacket is browned/toned, has numerous large chips, tears and creases, has the remnant of a small personal label on the bottom of the spine, and is slightly spotted on the spine; protected in archival mylar. Contains six illustrations. Numerous pages are uncut and unopened. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition.
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Very Good in No jacket. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First edition, inscribed "To A. K. Dexter with the author's regards, Aug. 1915" on the half-title, but without author signature. Well-kept copy of this history of the American West during the Civil War, mainly California, with many details concerning the battle of Ball's Bluff, where General Baker was killed. Illustrated with black and white plates. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, frontis portrait, 361 pages. Some light edgewear and a little cover soil, good hinges, sound text block, pages very clean with no other names or markings, a few pages still unopened (connected at the outer edges) so probably never read; we will open before shipping upon request. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Very Good. First printing. WARMLY INSCRIBED ON THE HALF TITLE BY THE AUTHOR TO A PERSONAL FRIEND AND DATED 27 APRIL, 1912. Ribbed red cloth, spine lettering gilt; top edge gilt, fore edge uncut; 361 pps. with index, short bibliography and three appendices. Frontispiece photogravure portrait of Baker and with five additional portrait plates in the text. Scarce work on the background events leading up to the near secession of California to the Confederacy, highlighting the efforts of Colonel E.D. Baker to preserve the Pacific Coast states for the Union. Very good with occasional spotting to the cloth and shallow loss to the cloth at the foot of the spine; some pages roughly opened.
