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By: Robert Ernest Cowan (1876-1942) and Robert Grannis Cowan (b. 1895)
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, N.P.: 1964
Edition: Reprint Edition
Seller ID: JR1018-015
Condition: Collectible: Like New
REPRINT EDITION of the 1933 edition along with the 1964 supplement. 4 Volumes in one. Thick 8vo. 8 3/4 x 6 inches. v, [1], 926pp. Title, subject, and chronological indexes; text clean, unmarked. Half olive green cloth, decorative paper over boards, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight. Fine. First issued in 1914 by the Book Club of California as their Book No. 1, Dr. Cowan recognized the need for a more expansive bibliography in 1933, limited exclusively to California. The second edition, co-authored with Robert Granniss Cowan, listed nearly five thousand titles. This repri... View more info
By: Robert Ernest Cowan (1876-1942) and Robert Grannis Cowan (b. 1895).
Price: $200.00
Publisher: San Francisco; Los Angeles:, John Henry Nash; Torrez Press,: 1933; 1964.
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: HX712-6
Condition: Used: Good
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED to 650 sets of the John Henry Nash printing. This work is the foundation of printed Californiana; it lists 4,700 titles, with an additional 692 titles in the 1964 supplement. Four Volumes bound in Two. 4to. 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches. v, [1 blank], 337, [1 blank]; [ii], 339-704; [iv], 705-825, [1 blank]; [iv], 827-926 pp. Running heads, decorative initials, indexes; text clean, unmarked. Bound in tan buckram, spine of first volume titled in gilt, printed paper spine label on the second volume; bindings square and tight, the first volume is heavily soiled with use wear.... View more info
