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Bennett, William P. THE FIRST BABY IN CAMP: A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE SCENES AND ADVENTURES DURING THE PIONEER DAYS OF '49.
Salt Lake City: The Rancher Publ. Co., 1893. First edition. Softcover, in original olive printed wrps. Minor chipping to spine with very small piece missing from lower left of front cover, else, very good. 68 pages. 6 7/8 x 4 3/4.
Flake, A Mormon Bibliography, 407. Graff 263. Cowan, A Bibliography of the History of California, II p.48. Adams Six-Guns 200, Paher, Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography, 117.
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Bennett, William P. THE FIRST BABY IN CAMP: A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE SCENES AND ADVENTURES DURING THE PIONEER DAYS OF '49.
Salt Lake City: The Rancher Publ. Co., 1893. First edition. Softcover, in original tan printed wrps. Small stain on front cover, wraps separated, but present, else Vg. 68 pages. 6 7/8 x 4 3/4.
Flake, A Mormon Bibliography, 407. Graff 263. Cowan, A Bibliography of the History of California, II p.48. Adams Six-Guns 200, Paher, Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography, 117.
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Clark, Susie Champney, THE ROUND TRIP FROM THE HUB TO THE GOLDEN GATE.
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1890. First edition. This is a rare softcover edition of the more common hardbound, It bears the same date as the first edition and has the same pagination Softcover in tan printed wraps with the title on t A few inked margin notes, cover chipped along the extremities and some sun fade. The spine cover is missing small pieces at the head and foot. Cover joints are starting. Overall, it is still a nice copy of a rare book. 193 pages 7 1/2 x 5 1/4.
A hard to find little travel journal. Flake, A Mormon Bibliography,2398. Cowan, A Bibliography of the State of California (1964), p. 128.
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Dana, Julian. SUTTER OF CALIFORNIA. A BIOGRAPHY.
New York: The Press of the Pioneers. 1934. First edition, presentation copy signed by the author. Red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles an Pages slightly rippled, else very good with some fading on back strip in a soiled, rubbed and internally repaired jacket. Very difficult to locate a copy of the first edition in a dust jacket. 423 pp. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4.
Frontis port. and 13 other illustrations, maps, index.
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Delano, Alonzo. PEN-KNIFE SKETCHES OR CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK.
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934. Limited to 550 copies. Cloth backed pictorial boards, printed paper label Some wear and soil to spine and pages rippled, else very good. 79 pages. 11 1/2 x 7 3/4.
Color frontis, color illustrations by Charles Nahl. Grabhorn's second series of Rare Americana, no. 3. Rocq 6049. Howes D-232.
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Gay, Theressa. JAMES W. MARSHALL, THE DISCOVERER OF CALIFORNIA GOLD: A BIOGRAPHY.
Georgetown, Ca: Talisman Press, 1967. Special edition, limited to 250 copies. Printed on special paper , specially bound, signed by the author and in a double slip case. This is No. 247 Half simulated black morocco over marbled boards Fine. 558 pages. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2.
Frontis portrait of Marshall and a portrait of Sutter, both in color, numerous historical photographs. 5 inserts including map. Facsimiles in rear pocket. "This is the first definitive and probably most thorough biography of Marshall (in preparation for over thirty years) and is based upon heretofore untapped original sources."
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Johnson, Theodore T(aylor), SIGHTS IN THE GOLD REGION AND SCENES BY THE WAY.
New York: Baker & Scribner, 1849. 1st ed., Later 3/4 green morocco & marbled boards, spine le The binding is lovely, there is some darkening, soiling and marginal staining to contents, else very good. 278 pp. 7 3/8 x 5.
Cowan p. 315. Graff 2223. Howes J-154. Streeter Sale 2575. Wagner-Camp 167g. Wheat Gold Rush 113. Kurutz 363a. Kurutz calls this book, "one of the earliest, liveliest, and most detailed accounts of the Gold Rush."
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M'Ilvaine, William Jr., SKETCHES OF SCENERY AND NOTES OF PERSONAL ADVENTURE IN CALIFORNIA & MEXICO.
San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California. 1951. Limited to 400 unnumbered copies. Light tan linen-like cloth spine with a tipped on Corners bumped and the tips are worn; There is light shelf wear and some spine soil, but overall the book is VG. 78 pages. 13 3/4 x 9 1/4.
Forward by Robert G. Cleland. Illustrated with sixteen full-size lithographic plates of the sketches originally done by M'Ilvaine during a trip to California (the sea route) in 1849.
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Player-Frowd, J.G., SIX MONTHS IN CALIFORNIA.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872. Original green stamped cloth. Gilt decoration on Hinges cracked else a very good bright copy. 164 pages.+ 28 pages. ads. 8 7/8 x 5 1/4.
Index. Flake: A Mormon Bibliography, 6394. Cowan, A Bibliography of the State of California, 494. Pp. 109-122 re Comstock mines and pp. 122-128 re White Pine , Nevada region mines. This is not in Paher's Nevada Bibliography.
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Revere, Joseph Warren, A TOUR OF DUTY IN CALIFORNIA; INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF THE GOLD REGION AND AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE AROUND CAPE HORN; WITH NOTICES OF LOWER CALIFORNIA, THE GULF AND PACIFIC COASTS, AND THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS ATTENDING THE CONQUEST OF THE CALIFORNIAS.
New York: C. S. Francis & Co. and J. H. Francis (Boston). 1849. 1st edition. deco Light shelf wear, a bit more at the spine ends. Light, scattered foxing. Overall, it is a Very Good, tight book in its original binding. Scarce. 305 pages plus 14 pages of publisher's ads. 7 3/4
Frontis. folding map of the Harbor of San Francisco. 6 Lithographed plates. Graff, 3474; Howes, Usiana R-222. Sabin 70182; Kurutz, The California Gold Rush,529a; Revere based his map (showing ranchos, missions, and other landmarks) on Beechey's survey map of 1827, which became the authoritative guide to the bay and remained so until well into the American period, (Harlow, The Maps of San Francisco Bay 36). The plates include images of Sutter's Fort New Helvetia; Monterey Capital of California. Corrected from Capitol; Quicksilver Mine near Santa Clara; Monte Diablo from the Sacramento river; A Ranchero Feat. Bear lassoed and tied to a tree by a vaquero with a well equipped horse; A Pui Day. Anglos in foreground watch a busy Native American feast day. "Revere was the grandson of American revolutionary Paul Revere. His book is one of the outstanding authorities on the period of the conquest, and his descriptions of Californai and the gold regions are among the best. The book contains valuable chapters on land law and land titles, as well as the complete report of Colonel Mason on the gold fields
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Smith, Charles Wesley, JOURNAL OF A TRIP TO CALIFORNIA ACROSS THE CONTINENT FROM WESTON, MISSOURI TO WEBER CREEK, CALIFORNIA IN 1850.
New York: Cadmus Book Shop, 1920. First edition. Red cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine Spotted on spine, corners bumped, a few small indentations on first several pages, else VG+. 79 pp. 8 x 5 1/2.
Mintz 428. Cowan p.592. Graff 3836. Wheat Gold Rush 191. Paher , Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography, 1821.
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Smith, Frank Meriweather, SAN FRANCISCO VIGILANCE COMMITTEE OF '56 WITH SOME INTERESTING SKETCHES OF EVENTS SUCCEEDING 1846.
San Francisco: Barry, Baird & Co., 1883. 1st edition. Original printed front wrapper. Front wrapper worn and stained, lacking rear wrapper, darkening to contents, dampstain to upper corners most noticeably to title page page, else good copy of a scarce San Francisco item. 83 pages. 9 x 6.
Cowan, p. 593, "Prefaced by a review of the state of society in San Francisco from 1846. Accounts of both Vigilance committees are given, drawn principally from the contemporary press. The author has ventured neither praise nor prejudice, and his work is a concise though brief history of these tribunals."
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Wheat, Carl I., BOOKS OF THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH.
San Francisco: The Colt Press, Printed by the Grabhorn Press, 1949. First edition. Red cloth with paper label over gold, yellow and Near fine copy. Lower right corner bumped. unpaginated, but complete 10 1/4 x 6 3/4.
Frontis, illus., facsms., chron. index, appendix.
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Wilson, Rufus Rockwell, OUT OF THE WEST.
New York: The Press of the Pioneers, 1933. First edition. Black cloth with title and vignette in gilt on fro Very Good copy in a chipped and rubbed dust jacket. 452 pages. 9 1/2 x 6 5/8.
Illus. title page, Illustrated with text and plate drawings by Sidney Fletcher, index. Adams Herd 2542. Paher 2182. Six-Guns 2423-"scarce". Most major aspects of west are covered: The Mountain Men, Oregon Trail, California Trail and Gold Rush, Pony Express, Comstock Lode, etc.
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