Oakland, California: Grahame Hardy, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. 79 (1r) pages. First Edition. SIGNED in ink by both authors on the front free endpaper. IIlustrated, including drawings by E. S. Hammack and vintage photographs. Cloth. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Tales of the Comstock Lode in and arouind Virginia City..... More
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1968. First Thus. 80 (4) pages. Illustrated, primarily from issues of the 1891 The Century Magazine. Front endpaper 1849 map of the California gold and quicksilver district. Beige cloth with gilt figure of goldminer on front cover and gilt spine titling. Fold-out title page with title..... More
Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1959. 327 pages. Illustrated including a folding map: "Central California About1880". Bibliography. Index. Original brown cloth. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Several pages unopened. A well-detailed history of hydraulic gold mining in California, from its inception, the battles between the foothill miner and..... More
Grass Valley-Nevada City: The Union Publishing Company, 1949. First Edition. Cloth. (12) 167 (2) pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by author Edmund Kinyon (at age 85) in ink on the verso of a front free endpaper, "To Lee M. Merriman / Compliments of W. F. Prisk / Edmund Kinyon". (Note: William F. Prisk..... More
