Title: Over the Purple Hills, or Sketches of Travel in California, Embracing all the Important Points Usually Visited by Tourists Author: Churchill, Caroline M. Place: Denver Publisher: Mrs. C.M. Churchill Date: 1881 Description: 252 pp. Two woodcut plates. (12mo) original brown cloth, stamped in black and blind on covers, spine lettered in gilt. "Tenth Thousand". Early printing of this scarce western travel narrative. Cowan lists only an expanded edition (336 pages) from 1884. There was also an 1877 edition published in Chicago. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine faded, a bit of soiling to cloth, partial ink stamp from a Cheyenne, W.T. news agent on front free endpaper; ink scribbles in margins of a few pages; very good. Item number: 216150
Title: Over the Purple Hills, or Sketches of Travel in California, Embracing all the Important Points Usually Visited by Tourists Author: Churchill, Caroline M. Place: Denver Publisher: Mrs. C.M. Churchill Date: 1881 Description: 252 pp. Two woodcut plates. (12mo) original brown cloth, stamped in black and blind on covers, spine lettered in gilt. "Tenth Thousand". Early printing of this scarce western travel narrative. Cowan lists only an expanded edition (336 pages) from 1884. There was also an 1877 edition published in Chicago. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine faded, a bit of soiling to cloth, partial ink stamp from a Cheyenne, W.T. news agent on front free endpaper; ink scribbles in margins of a few pages; very good. Item number: 216150
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