Title: Experiences of a Forty-Niner, by Wm. G. Johnston, a Member of the Wagon Train First to Enter California in the Memorable Year 1849 Author: Johnston, W[illia]m G[raham] Place: Pittsburgh Publisher: [Privately printed] Date: 1892 Description: 390 pp. Illustrated with 14 plates including frontispiece portrait, engravings, etc. (8vo) original green cloth stamped in gilt, beveled edges, floral endpapers. First Edition. Presentation slip, signed by the author, tipped in at front. "Overland narrative, in diary form, of the first emigrant train entering California in 1849" - Howes. Streeter calls it "one of the best and most readable of the overlands... From p. 248 to the end is an interesting account of Johnston's life at San Francisco, Sacramento and the mines, and his return by sea in December..." Presumably one of only 50 copies for private distribution, which Kurutz notes: "After publication Johnston mailed a blueprint map and a portrait of himself asking the owners to tip the additions into the volume. Apparently, not everyone complied, as many copies lack the map and the portrait." This copy does not have the original blueprint map. Cowan p.316; Graff 2229; Howes J173; Kurutz 364a; Wheat Gold Rush 113. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine leaning, light soiling to cloth, large chip from rear flyleaf and free endpaper; very good. Item number: 227102
Title: Experiences of a Forty-Niner, by Wm. G. Johnston, a Member of the Wagon Train First to Enter California in the Memorable Year 1849 Author: Johnston, W[illia]m G[raham] Place: Pittsburgh Publisher: [Privately printed] Date: 1892 Description: 390 pp. Illustrated with 14 plates including frontispiece portrait, engravings, etc. (8vo) original green cloth stamped in gilt, beveled edges, floral endpapers. First Edition. Presentation slip, signed by the author, tipped in at front. "Overland narrative, in diary form, of the first emigrant train entering California in 1849" - Howes. Streeter calls it "one of the best and most readable of the overlands... From p. 248 to the end is an interesting account of Johnston's life at San Francisco, Sacramento and the mines, and his return by sea in December..." Presumably one of only 50 copies for private distribution, which Kurutz notes: "After publication Johnston mailed a blueprint map and a portrait of himself asking the owners to tip the additions into the volume. Apparently, not everyone complied, as many copies lack the map and the portrait." This copy does not have the original blueprint map. Cowan p.316; Graff 2229; Howes J173; Kurutz 364a; Wheat Gold Rush 113. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine leaning, light soiling to cloth, large chip from rear flyleaf and free endpaper; very good. Item number: 227102
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