Bancroft Book Of Wealth

BANCROFT, CAROLINE. SILVER QUEEEN : The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor. Denver. The Golden Press, Inc. 1955 ; weicher Einband / soft cover
Near Fine

pp: 80. Sixteen pages of b&w photographs. A little light soiling to the covers. The biography of Baby Doe Tabor, found dead in her Leadville, Colorado, cabin in 1935. During the 1880s Baby Doe was one of the wealthiest people in America; sadly she lost her wealth and died in poverty. Originally published in 1950, the book was largely rewritten following access to the Tabor Scrapbooks in 1954. Second Edition Illustrated Card Covers. 8vo; Second Edition

[SW: America, Colorado, Biography, Local History.]

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Browne, J. Ross. RESOURCES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the Mines and Minerals, Climate, Topography, Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous Productions, of the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains with A Sketch, SF, 1869. 1869 ; fester Einband / hard cover
Good

1st edition thus. Published by H.H. Bancroft & Co, who reissued this gov't report & added the Sketch. Cloth with gilt-stamped backstrip. 674pp + 200pp. A wealth of information, printed by order of the Treasury Dept., from one of the great analysts of the 19th Century West & his "corps of assistants". Corners exposed, & top/bottom of backstrip frayed. Good. Scarce. Cowan p79, cf Paher 223. First Thus No Jacket Hardcover. Book; First Thus

[SW: CALIFORNIA]

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