Lorenzo

1926 · WRCAM29565 — New York: Edward Eberstadt 1926. 125pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original half Japanese vellum and boards gilt-stamped cover and spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Fine unopened. In a worn cardboard box. One of thirty-five large paper copies from an edition limited to 385 copies total. The first appearance in book form having only previously appeared in an obscure newspaper. An excellent overland narrative. ".One of the most readable of all the overland narratives of the gold rush days" - Wagner- Camp. The author later served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of California and judge on the Federal Bench. HOWES S133. GRAFF 3687. MINTZ 403. COWAN p.570. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 175. KURUTZ 556. WAGNER-CAMP 191 note. EBERSTADT 107:349 ref. Edward Eberstadt hardcover books