San Francisco: California Historical Society Quarterly, 1969. 99-111pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Side stapled wrappers. Near fine. Association copy. Inscribed by the author to Dale Morgan. "To Dale L. Morgan with best wishes, Thomas Andrews. Just a piece of 'FLUFF' written while I was at the Bancroft (Jan-Feb, 1967), but I...... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. First Editions. 2 volume set. 1404pp. Quartos [26 cm] 1/2 black cloth over gray boards with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrips. Both volumes better than very good. Bookplates on the front pastedown of both volumes. J. Goldsborough Bruff (1804-89) went to California..... More
Salt Lake City: Olympus Publishing Company, 1984. First Edition. 429pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Signed by the author on the front free endsheet. Illustrated with maps and portraits. "The story that unfolded from the Mormon involvement in the California Gold Rush was one of Utah's first..... More
Oakland, CA: Biobooks, 1948. 272pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] 1/2 gray cloth over green boards with a paper label on the backstrip. Better than very good. Large fold-out map present at the rear. Illustrated endsheets and pastedowns. Merrill J. Mattes points out that this privately printed book is Johnston's field journal..... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1967. Lakeside Classics number 65. 395pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Glassine jacket present. Near fine. The Klondike was the last of the great nineteenth-century gold rushes, a succession of frenzies that had..... More
Little Rock, AR: August House, 1986. First Edition. 271pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Map endsheet and pastedowns. This volume attempts to assemble all the known records of the Arkansas gold seekers. It especially makes use of the contemporary Arkansas..... More
San Francisco: D.E. Appleton & Company, 1858. 64pp. Sextodecimo [14.5 cm] Blue printed wrappers. Good. Covers chipped at extremities. John Stone, 'Old Put', composed over fifty songs on miners, mining life, and mining camps between 1853 and 1858. This songster contains Stone's most famous composition 'Sweet Betsy from Pike' that..... More
[Los Angeles]: Ward Ritchie Press, 1970. First Edition. 184pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Housed in publisher's gray slipcase, which is better than very good. Townsend's diary begins on November 22, 1851, with his assignment to the..... More
Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1937. 528pp. Quarto [26 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Spine of jacket sunned. Former owner's blind stamp on the endsheets. "When one not inordinately addicted to discoursing of himself begins..... More