Paperback. Condizione: New.
Condizione: Good. Binding is unblemished, text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Mild rubbing/chipping to price clipped dust wrapper edges, mild tanning to pages. Very nice example. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
Editore: Howell-North,, Berkeley, CA:, 1964
Da: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
8vo. 253, [1] pp. Numerous photo plates. Gray cloth, blue lettering (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. (minor shelfwear, price-clipped), NF/VG copy, w/ former ownership signature on front pastedown. First edition of this history of the famed legal cases which emerged from the disputed marriage contract between Senator William Sharon (King of the Comstock) and Sarah Althea Hill which inspired litigation in civil suits ranging from divorce to libel and slander, criminal prosecutions from adultery, perjury and larceny to murder plaguing California courts for over a decade.
Editore: Howell-North, Berkeley, CA, 1964
Da: Magic Carpet Books, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Full cloth. 253 pages. Illustrated. Index. Jacket has chips and tears A clean, attractive book.
Editore: Howell-North., Berkeley., 1964
Da: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 253 pps.
Editore: Howell-North, Berkeley, CA, 1964
Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. 253 p. illus., facsims., ports. 24cm. Chronology and CItations of Main Cases. Index. This work discusses the claim of a marriage contract between Senator William Sharon and Sarah Althea Hill. There were several lawsuits ranging from divorce to libel and slander and well as criminal prosecutions for adultery, perjury, larceny, and murder. These cases occurred over a ten year period. The author, to used rediscovered complete transcripts thought lost in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, was himself a judge. Some of the legal decisions served as significant prededents, even into modern times. Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips.