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Grant Foreman. The Adventures of James Collier: First Collector of the Port of San Francisco. Black Cat Press, 1937.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Light shelfwear.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Foreman, Grant. THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES COLLIER First Collector of the Port of San Francisco.. Black Cat Press, Chicago, 1937.

Price: US$56.25 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo; 61 pages; Just a touch of rubbing to covers. Limited to 250 copies.

Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.

Foreman, Grant. The Adventures of James Collier.; First Collector of the Port of San Francisco. Black Cat Press, Chicago, 1937.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: Cloth, label, edges of spine slightly rubbed. One of 250 copies.

Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.

Foreman, Grant. THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES COLLIER, FIRST COLLECTOR OF THE PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO. Black Cat Press, Chicago, 1937.

Price: US$120.00 + shipping

Description: 5-61,[1]pp. Original blue cloth. Very good. From a limited edition of 250 copies. A Litchfield, Connecticut native and veteran of the War of 1812, Collier was dispatched by President Taylor to become San Francisco's first collector. An account of his hazardous overland journey to San Francisco and his trials once there.

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

Foreman, Grant. The Adventures of James Collier: First Collector of the Port of San Francisco. Black Cat Press, Chicago, 1937.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. One of 250 copies printed and published by the Black Cat Press. 61pp. Chapter notes. Original silver-stamped blue cloth, printed paper label on front cover. A very fine copy. Collier (1789-1873) was appointed by President Taylor as Collector of the port of San Francisco just after the Mexican War. He and his party were among the 1849 westward-bound emigrants who came into the gold fields via the southern route - across the Colorado River westward over the Colorado Desert. H.M.T. Powell, in his diary, indicates that Collier followed the mountain route out from the Carrizo Corridor, his trail leading up through a canyon, over the mountains, finally bringing him to San Diego. Well researched with extensive chapter notes. Quite scarce. [Edwards: p. 87; Rader: 1430; Rocq: 9400].

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