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(Twain, Mark) The Buyers' Manual and Business Guide; Being a Description of the Leading Business Houses, Manufactories, Inventions, Etc. of the Pacific Coast, Together with Copious and Readable Selections, Chiefly from California Writers Author: Price, J. & C.S. Haley Place Published: San Francisco Publisher: Francis & Valentine Date Published: 1872 Description: v, [3], [4 ads], 192 + 16 ad pp. 21.5x14.5 cm (8½x5¾"), original red cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition. Contains a wealth of economic information on the West Coast in the early 1870s as well as some fine ads for various manufacturers. It also contains two first book appearances of Mark Twain pieces and other contributions by Ambrose Bierce and Bret Harte. Reference: BAL 3348 Condition: Cloth stained, spine ends fraying; upper corner of last leaf of ads missing; very good. Item#: 353159 Headline: 1872 Business guide w/ early Mark Twain