Title: The Diary of Patrick Breen: Recounting the Ordeal of the Donner Party Snowbound in the Sierras 1846-47
Author: Breen, Patrick
Description: Introduction and notes by George R. Stewart. With a 29-page facsimile of the diary. Decorations by Mallette Dean. 8¼x5¼, white cloth-backed patterned boards, acetate. 1 of 300 copies printed by the Allen Press.Gripping first-hand account of the most harrowing of overland disasters. See Cowan p.70; Allen Press Biblio. 5.
Heading: (Allen Press)Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher: Book Club of California
Date Published: 1946
Author: Breen, Patrick
Description: Introduction and notes by George R. Stewart. With a 29-page facsimile of the diary. Decorations by Mallette Dean. 8¼x5¼, white cloth-backed patterned boards, acetate. 1 of 300 copies printed by the Allen Press.Gripping first-hand account of the most harrowing of overland disasters. See Cowan p.70; Allen Press Biblio. 5.
Heading: (Allen Press)Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher: Book Club of California
Date Published: 1946
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Chips and tears to acetate; volume about fine.
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Collection of Fine California Press Books
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