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Inscribed James Clyman, American Frontiersman

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:900.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD
Inscribed James Clyman, American Frontiersman
<B> James Clyman Charles L. Camp editor : A Superb Signed and Inscribed Copy of <I>James Clyman, American Frontiersman 1792-1881.</B></I></B></I> The Adventures of a Trapper and Covered Wagon Emigrant as Told in his Own Reminiscences and Diaries. Edited by Charles L. Camp. (San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1928). First edition. Signed and inscribed by the editor on the front pastedown endpaper, and with the recipient's bookplate. Octavo (10” x 6.5”). 247, 4, index pages. Photographic frontispiece portrait of an elderly Clyman, illustrated with a portrait of Hannah Clyman, maps including one folding, and a facsimile page of Clyman's diary. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Bottom corner cut from Clyman's frontisportrait, away from the image, else an about fine copy. Housed in custom quarter morocco book-backed slipcase with five raised bands and gilt tooling on the spine.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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