RAILWAY IN THE VALLEY by Clif & Lois Rather 1973 #2/100 Hand Made Limited Ed.
POB#58235
TITLE: Railway in the Valley
AUTHOR: Written, designed, hand set, printed and bound by Clif & Lois Rather
PUBLISHER: Oakland: The Rather Press
DATE: 1973
EDITION: "We made one hundred copies, of which this is copy 2"
DESCRIPTION: 114 pages : illustrations, 24 cm.
CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Unevenly sunned on covers with some faded dampstaining to covers only. Pages free of marks, creases, or tears. High quality paper and hand-set type.
BINDING: Black cloth backstrip over dark rose paper.
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Stories of railroads, cattle, farming, outlaws, and towns from California's San Joaquin Valley.
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A labor of love by the Rathers who wrote, hand set, printed and bound only 100 volumes of a very useful history of the railroads and their early monopoly control of San Joaquin and Sacramento Valley farm economy. While the text, paper, and print quality is outstanding, the binding doesn't rise to same high quality, being made of a rather typical hardcover and quarter cloth that could have been much better done at a specialist bindery.
