Name/Title
"GOLD DAYS"Entry/Object ID
2004.166.1.1Description
Color: Black; Brown; Gold
"Gold Days," by Owen Cochran Coy (Los Angeles: Powell Publishing Company,) 1929. The hardcover book has a gold cloth cover and brown lettering within green line borders, consisting of the title on the front cover and the title, author's last name, and the publisher's name on the spine. There are fourteen chapters to the 381-page work providing a general history of California in the Gold Rush years. There are also an appendix with transcriptions of official documents concerning the discovery of gold in the then-territory, a bibliography, an index, two maps and seventeen illustrations. In good condition, the object has light rubbing along the cover edges and corners; creases at the corners of the last page; slight dents on the cover corners; some inscriptions in pencil on the back and on the front flysheet; and light cover stains and handling stains on pages.Lexicon
Search Terms
Three-dimensional, Books, Powell Publishing Company, California--History--1850-1869, Gold discoveries--California