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The Buyer's Manual and Business Guide…Pacific Coast, Price & Haley, 1872 (Business Directory)

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The Buyer's Manual and Business Guide…Pacific Coast, Price & Haley, 1872 (Business Directory)
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Listed in Quebedeaux! Price & Haley; The Buyers Manual and Business Guide; being a description of the leading business houses, manufactories inventions, etc...; San Francisco, 1872. 192pp plus 16pp of advertisements. Brown boards, gilt lettering on front and spine, only minor wear to top and bottom of spine. This scarce book is often listed under literature, because it contains two very important articles by Mark Twain and Bret Harte. The general crux of the book describes the various businesses of the Pacific Coast in fair detail, naming many of the key businesses. In between these sections are scattered numerous articles. Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp and the Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Twain's speech at the Aldene's dinner in New York is present along with other Twain related pieces.

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FHWAC#: 19334