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The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years, signed

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Description

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Author: Meeker, Ezra
Title: The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years
Place Published: Seattle
Publisher:Published by the Author
Date Published: [1916]
Description:

viii, [4], 399, [3] pp. Illustrated. (8vo) 17.8x12.2 cm (7x5"), green pictorial cloth. First Edition.

Account of Oregonian pioneer Ezra Meeker. Inscribed by Meeker on the front free endpaper

Condition

Wear to cloth, spine ends frayed, spine cracked, some foxing to edge of text block; overall very good.

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