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Richard H. Dillon (Introduction) Artful Deeds: In the Life of the Felon, Grovenor Layton...A Tale of the California Gold Rush
San Francisco Book Club of California 1998 First Edition Hardcover Used: Very Good None Hardcover
The Book Club of California Publication Number 208. LIMITED EDITION of 350 copies designed, composed and printed letterpress by Peter Koch, with the assistance of Richard Seibert. Typefaces are Minion for the text and Scala & Quadraat italic for display. Photolithography by Phelps/Schaefer, bound by Cardoza-James bookbinding Company, slipcase constructed by Arnold Martinez. Tall 8vo. 274 x 155 mm. [iv], 71, [1] pp. Title-page and chapter initials printed in brick-red ink, title-page vignette, 4 woodcut illustrations and a map from the original edition of 1853 in the text; text clean, un-marked. Quarter dark red cloth, map printed on orange paper covers the boards, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight. Comes with a slip case; slip case in good shape except it is oil-stained. Very Good. This book was originally published anonymously in the early 1850s; it is the story of a gold rush robber who meets a grisly end on the gallows. Although it does not recount an actual event, it is highly illustrative of life in the mines and placers. Your order receives my personal attention.
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80.00 USD
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Richard H Dillon Texas Argonauts: Isaac H. Duval and the California Gold Rush
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1987 First Edition Hardcover Used: Very Good Very Good Hardcover Charlie Shaw
LIMITED EDITION of 450 copies, designed by David Holman and printed letterpress at Wind River Press, Austin, Texas, paintings printed offset using separations by Capital spectrum in Austin. The Book Club of California Publication Number 186. Folio. 355 x 257 mm. xiii, 199, [3] pp. Color frontispiece painting portrait of Major Isaac Harding Duval, title-page printed in black, blue and brown inks, color painting illustrations throughout by Charlie Shaw, initial letters and decorations printed in blue and brown inks, bibliography, index; text clean, un-marked, one corner turned down and creases to corners at last few leaves of the text. Quarter cloth, illustrated paper over boards printed in blue ink, printed paper spine label, maps in end-leaves, plain white paper dust-jacket; binding square and tight, some light foxing to cloth, jacket toned, tears to extremities and general shelf wear. Prospectus, order form, and an 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheet noting delay in publication laid in. Very Good. Isaac Harding Duval (1824-1902) was an American adventurer and businessman prior to becoming a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As a young man, Duval traveled to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he joined an elder brother who was running a trading post. Afterward, Duval became a scout on the Western Plains and Rocky Mountains, and joined the Gold Rush in 1849. This book records Duval’s reminiscences of the Gila Trail journey from Texas to the Mother Lode Mines. It is a significant documentation by a leader of the California Gold Rush. After the Civil War, Isaac Duval became a U. S. Representative from West Virginia in the 41st United States Congress. Your order receives my personal attention.
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95.00 USD
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