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First Edition of Cowan's Bibliography of California

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Heading: (Book Club of California)
Author: Cowan, Robert Ernest
Title: A Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West, 1510-1906. Together with the Text of John W. Dwinelle's Address on the Acquisition of California by the United States of America
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Book Club of California
Date Published: 1914
Description:

(4to) original linen-backed boards, paper spine label. No. 4 of 250 copies printed by Taylor, Nash & Taylor. First Edition.

The first edition of Cowan's landmark bibliography, and the first publication of the Book Club of California. The Zamorano Eighty notes Cowan as "for many years the greatest authority on the bibliography of California." BCC 1; Zamorano Eighty 23.

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Lacking slipcase, some wear and soiling to binding, darkening to spine; interior clean; very good.

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