Cosgrave, George
Early California Justice
The Grabhorn Press: 1948
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4to. Edited by Roy Vernon Sanders. Three page foreword by Margaret Cosgrave Sowers. Seven facsimiles. Original red cloth, paper label. No dust jacket. Very good. 97 pages. No signatures or bookplates. One of 400 copies. Small bookseller label, Vroman's. GB 466.
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