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Author: Breen, Patrick
Title: The Diary of Patrick Breen: Recounting the Ordeal of the Donner Party Snowbound in the Sierras 1846-47
Place: San Francisco
Publisher: The Book Club of California
Date: 1946
Item # : 194562
Sale Number   387
Lot Number   53
Sale Name    
Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography
Sale Date   09/11/2008
Price realized   $ 300
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Description:
Introduction and notes by George R. Stewart. With a 29-page facsimile of the diary. Decorations by Mallette Dean. 8¼x5¼, white cloth-backed patterned boards. 1 of 300 copies printed by the Allen Press.
Prospectus laid in. Gripping first-hand account of the most harrowing of overland disasters. See Cowan p.70; Allen Press Biblio. 5.
Condition:
Faint smudge on spine; offsetting to front endpaper, else fine.
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