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Published by San Francisco, Calif. : Squibob Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0961857765 ISBN 13: 9780961857769
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First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages; Description: 253 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Subjects: Humorous stories, American --California. California --Humor. 1 Kg.
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Publication Date: 2022
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1973 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 272 Language: English Pages: 272.
Published by Wentworth Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 1372645136 ISBN 13: 9781372645136
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Published by Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1937
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 24 x 16 cm., [xiv], 240 pp., frontispiece and title page in red and black with humorous decorations, other illustrations some on different paper, blue highlights. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1937. One of 550 copies. Part of the Third series of Rare Americana, No. 5. Bound in quarter tan buckram over turquoise & brown illustrated boards, printed paper spine label, original plain brown paper dust jacket with tears at spine. Edited and with an introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. Illustrations, facsimile sketches, etc. Humorous sketches of California by John Phoenix or John Squibob, the pen names of U.S. Lieutenant George H. Derby. Derby who was an army officer ( Ilist several of his short reports of his explorations in California at the time of the Gold Rush) who established a reputation as a wit and practical joker even while at West Point. Phoenixiana; or, Sketches and Burlesques was first published in 1856 (I have a copy for sale). The work offered here draws upon original sources for its material and contains many hitherto uncollected nuggets of humor as well as familiar favorites. The sequence of "hunting scenes" is here published for the first time. [Grabhorn: 277; One of the fifty books of the year; Heller and Magee, Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, No. 277.
Published by New York, D. Appleton And Company, 1903
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
New Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-titled and color-pictorial cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 332 pages; Description: xvi, 332 p. , incl. Front. , illus. 20 cm. Subjects: Humorous stories, American--California. California--Humor. 1 Kg.
Published by New York, D. Appleton And Company, 1903
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New Edition, 1903. First edition 1856. Near fine in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 332 pages; Description: xvi, 332 p. , incl. Front. , illus. 20 cm. Subjects: Humorous stories, American --California. California --Humor. 1 Kg.
Published by New York, D. Appleton And Company, 1903
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New Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-titled and color-pictorial cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 332 pages; Description: xvi, 332 p. , incl. Front. , illus. 20 cm. Subjects: Humorous stories, American--California. California--Humor. 1 Kg.
Published by New York, D. Appleton And Company, 1903
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New Edition, 1903. First edition 1856. Near fine in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 332 pages; Description: xvi, 332 p. , incl. Front. , illus. 20 cm. Subjects: Humorous stories, American --California. California --Humor. 1 Kg.
Published by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, New York, 1856
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 19 x 12 cm, [xiv], 274, [14, advertisements] pp., frontispiece with printed signature of John P. Squibob with humorous decorations, other illustrations some on different paper, blue highlights. Derby who was an army officer ( I list several of his short reports of his explorations in California at the time of the Gold Rush) who established a reputation as a wit and practical joker even while at West Point. This is the first edition of "Phoenixiana; or, Sketches and Burlesques". This 1856 collection of his work was a best seller and went through eleven printings within a year. Minimal wear at ends of spine and corners. Else, Very Good +. Cowan II p.167. GB 277. Wheat 63. BAL 4650. Brown embossed publisherŐs cloth with gilt titling on spine and gilt illustrations on spine and front cover Internally fine except that pp. 21-216 were torn (not reaching printing) when the two uncut pages were separated on first reading. Covers hardly worn but corners slightly bumped and gilt much dulled. an exceptional copy.
Published by Washington: 1850., 1850
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DERBY, George Hotario (1823-1861). The Sacramento Valley from the American River to Butte Creek. Surveyed & Drawn by Order of Genl. Riley, Commandg. 10th Military Dept. by Lieut. Derby, Top. Engrs. September & October 1849. Washington: 1850. Single sheet (21 6/8 x 17 4/8 inches). Fine and detailed lithographed map showing Sacramento City and extending north through wilderness to Solitary Tree (old folds and short treat top right-hand corner). First edition, published in United States, Senate Executive Documents No. 47, 31st Congress, 1st Sess., 1850. Rept. of Sec. of War, "Topographical Memoir Accompanying Maps of the Sacramento Valley, &c." Derby accompanied Brigadier General Bennett Riley on a tour of the gold districts in the summer of 1849, and this map is the result. Wheat notes that although "Derby is today best known as a humorist.his career in equally important in the sphere oftopography." He prepared two other maps listed in Wheat. Derby entered West Point in 1842. "There his practical jokes and comic drawings earned him both a number of demerits and the nickname "Squibob," one of the two chief pseudonyms with which he later signed his humorous writings. Derby graduated in 1846, seventh in a class of fifty-nine that included Stonewall Jackson and George B. McClellan (1826-1885). Initially commissioned a second lieutenant in ordnance, he was almost immediately transferred to the topographical engineers, the corps in which he served throughout the rest of his life. In April 1847 he was wounded at Cerro Gordo during the Mexican-American War and was subsequently assigned to the topographical bureau in Washington, D.C. "In Derby's day the topographical engineers were responsible for exploration and mapping and the construction of harbors, lighthouses, and military roads. Derby spent most of his army career on the Pacific Coast, headquartered in California, also the site of his rise to fame as a humorist. He arrived in California in June of 1849, at the height of the gold rush. During the next two years he undertook four field expeditions, including mapping the mining country and the lower Colorado River" (John Lang for ANB). Wheat, Maps of the Gold Region 149.