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Wierzbicki, F. P., M. D., With An Introduction By George D. Lyman. California as It is & as It May Be, Or a Guide to the Gold Region. The Grabhorn Press, 1933.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: One of 500 copies printed. Ex libris bookplate on the front pastedown. Green paper boards over black cloth. Black illustration on the front panel, paper label on the spine. The binding is tight, some light rubbing at the corners. Endpapers and prelims are toned. Text and images are clean and unmarked.

Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

WIERZBICKI,, F. P.. CALIFORNIA AS IT IS & AS IT MAY BE. Or A Guide to the Gold Region. With an Introduction by George D. Lyman.. San Francisco, The Grabhorn Press 1933., 1933.

Price: US$44.34 + shipping

Description: xxix+102pp. 8vo. Original cloth backed papered boards in dustwrapper, a little rubbed and chipped. Black and white illustrations. Offsetting to endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown. Edges uncut. A very good copy. Drawings by Valenti Angelo.

Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia

F. P. Wierzbicki. California as it is and as it may be or guide to the gold regions. Grabhorn Press rare Americana series, 1933.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Excellent copy with scarce DJ. From second series, number 8. 1 of 500 in the run. Deckle edges. First edition from 1850. The author was a medical doctor.

Seller: Hill Country Books, Ctr Sandwich, NH, U.S.A.

Wierzbicki, F.P., M.D.. California as It Is & As It May Be or a Guide to the Gold Region.with an Introduction by George D. Lyman, Drawings by Valenti Angelo.. The Grabhorn Press., San Francisco, 1933.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Cloth backed boards. Edition limited to 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Rare American Series I, no. 8. Zamorano 80, no. 79. 101 pages, plus 3 pages "Bibliography for the Study of the Life of F.P. Wierzbiki, M.D. compiled by George D. Lyman." Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown (Ted Maxwell). Some rubbing at top corners.

Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

WIERZBICKI, F. P.. California As it Is & As It May Be; Or a Guide to the Gold Region. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1933.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: Introduction by George D. Lyman. Illus. by Valenti Angelo. xxxii, 104pp. 8vo, rebound in later brown cloth, leather label, corners bumped, ex-lib, spine label rubbed. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1933. Rare Americana Series, Number 8. One of 500 copies. The original San Francisco 1849 edition was the "First California-printed English book of an original nature." Howes W-405. "Dr. Wierzbicki, a Polish refugee, came to California in 1847.and set up a medical practice in San Francisco. He also joined the gold rush in the high Sierras." Hill p. 615. Zamorano 80, Number 79. Wheat Gold Rush 227. Graff 4650.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Wierzbicki, F.P.. California as It is & As It May Be or a Guide to the Gold Regions. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1933.

Price: US$104.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: LIMITED EDITION. Two small and minor amber smudge spots on the middle foreedge of the text block, else a fine, clean and unmarked copy. Extremely scarce Grabhorn item.

Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

F. P. Wierzbicki. California As It Is and As It May Be or A Guide to The Gold regions. Grabhorn Press, 1933.

Price: US$112.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book and dust jacket are very good actually book in Fine condition Limited edition 1/500

Seller: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.

F.P. Wierzbicki. California as it is and as it may be or a guide to the gold regions. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1933.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Limited Edition, One of 500, number 8 in Grabhorn Press' Rare Americana Series, 101 pages plus 3 page bibliography, illustrated by Valenti Angelo, Zamorano 80 #79, Howes W-405, Book is near Fine, foxing to preliminary pages else Fine, No previous owner bookplate or writing, Jacket is Very God Minus, edge and corner wear, still looks nice in a new mylar sleeve.

Seller: Pacific Coast Books, ABAA,ILAB, Gleneden Beach, OR, U.S.A.

Wierzbicki, F.P.. California As It Is & As It May Be: or, a Guide to the Gold Region. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1933.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: One of 500 copies, reprinted by the Grabhorn Press, of the first book written and published in California (1849). . 101pp. plus a 30 page introduction. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Black cloth-backed pictorial boards, printed paper spine label. Offsetting to ends (as usual) but a very fine, bright and crisp copy with the elusive printed dust jacket (short one inch tear to top edge, small chip to spine). The author begins with an overall description of California and its history. He then goes on to give a general discourse on the mines and sage advice to miners, covering such practical subjects as a miner's outfit, the rocker, provisions, mining companies, horses, prospecting methods, health, winter in the mines, and descriptions of the mining camps. He then continues with a description of San Francisco and its harbor, noting the lack of women. Includes an excellent introduction by George D. Lyman along with fine illustrations by Valenti Angelo. [Kurutz: 678-d].

Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Wierzbicki, F.P.. CALIFORNIA AS IT IS & AS IT MAY BE OR A GUIDE TO THE GOLD REGION.. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1933.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: 100,[4]pp. Illus. Narrow quarto. Original half cloth and boards. Fine. Without dust jacket or slipcase. An entry in the Rare Americana series, from an edition limited to 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press, with an introduction by George Lyman. Reprinted from the original edition of 1849 which Wheat describes as "The earliest descriptive work of its kind to be printed in California. A guide to the gold region, and the observations of a remarkable man." That original edition is extremely rare and Howes describes it as the "first California-printed book of an original nature.the most important and prized of all books printed there." WHEAT GOLD RUSH 227 (note). HOWES W405. ZAMORANO 80, 79. KURUTZ 678d.

Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

WIERZBICKI, F.P.. California as it is & as it may be, or a guide to the gold region. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1933.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Cloth backed boards, paper label to spine. First Grabhorn edition. Zamorano, 79.

Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.