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
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