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First edition. Biograpy of William Fuller (1827-1890) who started the W. P. Fuller & Company and an account of his business ventures in San Francisco and Sacramento during the gold rush, the floods in Sacramento, etc. Includes the history of the company itself through the Civil Wars, the San Francisco earthquakes and more. Frontispiece portrait, drawings at the head of each chapter. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by A. W. Brawner, the President of J. P. Fuller and Company and the grandson of Fuller, and dated in 1948. 144 pp plus a list of the descendants of Fuller and of the offices of the company. Very good in gray-blue boards, cream linen spine, paper label on spine. .

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