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Condition: Good. Stated 1st Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Stated 1st Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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hardcover. first edition. 8vo. 361pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05867. Very Good: Book VG- mild shelf wear/dust to boards and spine, name front paste down, offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight. mild odor. Very Good: DJ VG mild toning, shelf wear. not clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dj has heavy edgewear with several small tears. Book edges are faded some. Light wear. Light soiling. Lightly bumped corners. Not a pretty book but is a good reading copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A beautiful crisp clean uncracked softcover copy in near fine conditon, faint edge wear to cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The book is in very good condition. The binding is tight and the text is clean. Minir bumping a scuffing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Slight edge rubbing, page edges lightly soiled, with some minor spotting on bottom page edge, and light foxing on all page edges. In edge worn DJ. Now protected in a mylar jacket. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 361 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stanford, CA: University Press, 1997. 1st edition, NF/NF. Book and dust jacket have lightly bumped lower front corner. Illustrated with historical photos, drawings, paintings and 4 maps. Includes notes, 3 appendices, bibliography and index. The captain of the ship (Edward Faucon) worked his trade on the west coast of the U.S. and China from 1846-1850. Lots of good material on the building of ships and their shipyards at this period of time. Frederick Douglas worked for a time in their shipyard. Fascinating story, well-researched. Nice copy, 227 pp. BP. …

paperback. Condition: Good. Lightly worn wraps. Unmarked clean pages.

Hard Cover. Later printing. FINE, VIRTUALLY AS NEW, IN SIMILAR DUST JACKET.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Uncorrected Proof. Uncorrected Proof, First Edition. In Wraps; Covers are clean but lightly rubbed on edges and corners; front cover has a slight lift at right reading edge and a small closed tear at lower left edge at spine fold; rear cover has a light crease at lower left corner; book edges are very lightly soiled; book interior is clean and tight; 8vo; 361 pages.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Cloth, dj. Slight shelf-wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Cloth, d.j., in an acetate cover. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Cloth, no d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy.

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Condition: good. This is a pre-loved book that shows moderate signs of wear from previous reading. You may notice creases, edge wear, or a cracked spine, but it remains in solid, readable condition. Please note: -May include library or rental stickers, stamps, or markings. -Supplemental materials e.g., CDs, access codes, inserts are not guaranteed. -Box sets may not come with the original outer box. If it does, the box will not be in perfect condition. Your satisfaction is our top priority! If you have any questions or concerns about your order, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thank you for shopping with us and supporting small businessâ"happy reading.…

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Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. nice, clean copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good hardcover,with dustjacket, some spotting on fore-edge.

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Paperback. Condition: New. In the late summer of 1984, the author and a group of his archaeology students excavated fragments of Chinese porcelain at the site of a Pomo Indian village a hundred miles north of San Francisco. How did these ceramics, which were more than a hundred years old, find their way to this remote area? And what could one make of local legend that told of Pomo women wearing Chinese silk shawls in the 1850's? The author determined to find the answers to these questions, never dreaming that his quest would eventually involve the lives of nineteenth-century Boston merchants, Baltimore shipbuilders, Bombay opium brokers, and newly rich businessmen in gold rush San Francisco. The author soon learned that in 1850 the clipper Frolic, a sailing ship built specifically for the Asian opium trade, had wrecked on the Mendocino coast, a few miles from the Pomo village. He unearthed the business records of its owners, A. Heard and Co., which showed that respectable Bostonians had made their fortunes running opium from India to China. The family histories of the firm's two most influential partners are traced from the American Revolution to their joint decision to order a custom-built Baltimore clipper for the opium trade. In describing the design, construction, and outfitting of the Frolic, the author was aided by a stroke of luck-a slave named Fred Bailey, later known to the world as the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, worked in the Frolic's shipyard in 1836 and wrote detailed descriptions of the building of such ships. The Frolic, under Captain Edward Faucon (who was depicted as the "good" captain in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast) plied the opium trade from Bombay to China from 1845 to 1850. The author describes the political, financial, and logistical aspects of the profitable enterprise before 1849, when the introduction of steam vessels into the opium trade made the Frolic obsolete as an opium clipper. However, the California gold rush created a lucrative market for Chinese goods, and the Heard firm dispatched the Frolic to San Francisco with a diverse cargo that included silks, porcelain, jewelry, and furniture. When the Frolic wrecked on the Mendocino coast, the Pomo Indians salvaged its cargo, and the vessel's history passed into folk tradition. The subsequent lives of those intimately associated with the Frolic are profiled. The owners' families preferred to forget the source of their fortunes, and prior to her death in 1942, the daughter of the Frolic's captain burned her father's papers to preserve his reputation. She could not know that in 1965 sports divers would discover the remains of her father's opium clipper, and that 134 years after its wreck, the Frolic's story would inspire an archaeologist-anthropologist to pursue its colorful history.…

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