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Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: FAIR blue hardcover. No jacket. 1933. One date no additional printings. VOLUME 1 ONLY. EX LIB w/usual markings. Stamps and clipped FFEP. Moderate to heavy edge/corner wear. Rear few pages stained at bottom edge (light). Solid. 142 pp + Notes
Seller: Eastburn Books, Albany, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volumes. xviii, 142, [6], xviii, 143, [6] pages. Rare Americana series, numbers 5 and 6. Quarter bound in paper over cloth. Light wear to corners, boards moderately age-toned, cloth spine very good, spine labels fine; contents unmarked and attractive. Volume II, rear inner hinge cracked but holding at "Notes" page. 840 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. 142,143pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] 1/4 blue cloth over gray boards with the titles printed on the front boards and backstrips. About very good. Boards age-toned at extremities with the corners gently rubbed and bumped. Small lib. Ink stamp at the upper left of the front pastedowns and again on the head of the textblock. Introduction and notes by Carl I. Wheat. Important firsthand account of the gold fields with eight tinted plates. Dame Shirley, as she is known in California literature, sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco with her husband, Dr. Fayette Clappe. After a short stay in San Francisco, Dr. Clappe went off for the diggings at Rich Bar. Shirley joined him in September, 1851, and began a series of twenty-three letters to her sister back home in Massachusetts. She wrote the last letter in November, 1852. Upon returning to San Francisco, Dame Shirley separated from her husband and eventually met Ferdinand C. Ewer, the editor of California's first magazine, The Pioneer. Recognizing the value of these beautifully crafted firsthand account of the mines, Ewer published one Shirley letter in each number of The Pioneer beginning in January 1854 and ending with the demise of the magazine in December 1855. The Shirley letters have received the highest possible praise. Kurutz 133b. Zamorano Eighty: 69.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue boards backed by black cloth spines. Notes. Rare Americana Series Numbers 5 & 6. 142 & 143 pages. Slight edge browning to edge of boards and light shelf wear. Former owner's bookplate in Vol. 2 otherwise both volumes are VERY GOOD.
Seller: Springer Books, Sequim, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Blue Cloth on Light Blue Boards, 142 pp., Very Good, slight slanting. Tan printed paper label affixed to head of spine. Illustrated.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$89.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards in gray art paper and black cloth spine, very good w/ owner bookplate inside(H. G. Hills of Hills Bros. Coffee) and old price in pencil on endpaper(20.00 for both volumes!) in good djs w/ unfortunate oxidizing scotch tape attachment and residue, chips to edges and corners, top and bottom of spine. 142p., volume I; 143p., volume II plus notes appendices in both volumes. Charming chapter heads w/ miniature reproductions of lithographs by various San Francisco lithographers of the period. "Thus did a young New England woman, suddenly transplanted to a rude California mining camp, speak of her purpose in the letter which on January 27, 1852, she wrote to a sister in "the States." She signed herself "Dame Shirley", and for more that three-quarters of a century her letters from the California "diggins" have proved a rich mine from which many writers better known than she have plucked rare nuggets."
Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Introduction and notes by Carl I. Wheat. Number 5 Rare Americana Series. One of 500 copies. Cloth spines and printed paper boards with a paper spine labels. Covers faintly sunned. Magee 178 and 179.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$199.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth spine over blue-grey boards, spine labels. Two volume set. Covers sunned, spine ends rubbed, block edge lightly foxed, endpages toned. Sound and square. The DJs in mylar are chipped/edgeworn. Numbers 5 and 6 of the Rare Americana Series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: [CLAPPE, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith]. California in 1851 (and 1852) The Letters of Dame Shirley. Introduction and Notes by Carl I. Wheat. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1933. Two vols. xviii, 142 (5); xviii, 143, (6)pp. A very good set in orig. cloth-backed boards with printed paper labels. Howes C-427. Limited to 500 copies. "First appearing serially in the Pioneer Magazine under the pseudonym of `Dame Shirley' in 1854-55, these letters present a vivid and unexcelled picture of everyday life in the mines."--Howes.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.