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Books, Periodicals, Ephemera
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TB22866
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The City Of The Saints and Across The Rocky Mountains To California
Author: Burton, Richard, F.
Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts London 1861
First Edition Very good+ in 3/4 deep red leather and maroon cloth covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text between two compartments. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" tall by 5 1/4" deep. The hinges have been repaired and there is a 1/4" by 1/4" chip from the uppermost raised band on the spine. The edge of the front joint is rubbed and worn and there is writing in ink on the front paste down. Without a dust jacket. 707 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 16 steel engravings and two fold-out maps (Although all illustrations are present some are misplaced with the page sequence shown in the table of contents). Considered by Howes to by mildly scarce. (Howes B1033; Graff 512; Sabin 9497; Wagner/Camp 370) Edward Rice in his excellent biography of Richard Francis Burton wrote of his 1860 trip through the US and the resulting book: "..the book is a rare account by an experienced traveler who was alert to every detail, to language, to the nuances of a dynamic developing nation that showed high civilization on its eastern coast and progressive barbarism as one traveled westward. Here are emigrants, soldiers, desperadoes, wanderers, frontier women, Indian tribes, government officials, rascals and saints, the inevitable pretty girls (white and Indian alike). Social conditions, perceptions about democracy, advice to the army about dealing with the aborigines (the Indians were like a sort of Bedawin to Burton), lists of routes and way stops, the legal system and frontier justice, analyses of raw materials and alkaline waters, the sources of rivers, the weather, soil conditions - it is mid-century America in five hundred pages and appendixes and rarely dull." As an interesting side note: Burton's trip to the US formed the historical basis for John Dunning's 2004, biblio-mystery, A Bookman's Promise.Our code number = TB22866
Price: US$1,250.00. Quantity available: 1.
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AUD 1,225.49 | CAD 1,252.51 | EUR 946.97 | GBP 801.28 | JPY 113636 | MXN 13889 | ZAR 11261 |
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Town's End Books, ABAA, ILAB
132 Hemlock Drive
Deep River, Connecticut
06417 United States
Phone: (860) 526-3896, Fax: (860) 526-3947
Website: http://www.townsendbooks.com
Email: john@townsendbooks.com
Seller's item number:
TB22866
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Seller's Terms of Sale:
We protect the dust jackets for all of our books in Demco book jacket protectors. All books are bubble wrapped and boxed for safe shipment.Shipping charges For Priority delivery within the US are $7.00 for the first book in an order and $3.50 for any additional books. Book Rate (Media Mail) shipments are $3.00 for the first book and $2.00 for each subsequent book in an order.For deliveries to Canada or overseas please contact us. Payment is to be made in advance of shipment. We accept cash, personal checks, money orders, Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express.Return Policy We sell all of our books on an "approval basis" such that if you receive a book from us and you are not satisfied with it, or believe it is not as we described it, you may return it to us for a full refund. We do ask however that you call us first before returning it so that we can provide you with some suggestions for returning the book to us.
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