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COWAN, ROBERT ERNEST. BOOKSELLERS OF EARLY SAN FRANCISCO.
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1953. First edition, ltd. to 350 copies. xxiv, 111 pp. Biblio. Plus 4 plates from photographs. Gilt cloth. 8vo. Fine copy. Foreword by Henry R. Wagner. Biography of the author by Robert G. Cowan. The elder Cowan, himself a renowned bookseller and California bibliographer provides biographical sketches of the legendary San Francisco booksellers including Hubert H. Bancroft, Edward J. Muybridge (more famous as a photographer), William Doxey and many others.
Offered for US$ 90.00 by: Almagre Books - Book number: 16559