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, William Graham Place: Pittsburgh Publisher: [Privately printed] Date: 1892 Description: 390 pp. Illustrated with 14 plates including frontispiece portrait plus folding blueprint map tipped in at rear. 22.2x14 cm (8¾x5½"), original green cloth stamped in gilt, beveled edges, floral endpapers. First Edition. Presentation slip, signed by the author, mounted to front pastedown. 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 features the rare map, tipped in as directed. "Overland narrative, in diary form, of the first emigrant train entering California in 1849" - Howes J173. Additional References: Cowan p.316; Graff 2229; Kurutz 364a; Wheat Gold Rush 113. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine slightly leaning, faint soiling to cloth; binding shaken around page 250; very good. Item number: 345388
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, William Graham Place: Pittsburgh Publisher: [Privately printed] Date: 1892 Description: 390 pp. Illustrated with 14 plates including frontispiece portrait plus folding blueprint map tipped in at rear. 22.2x14 cm (8¾x5½"), original green cloth stamped in gilt, beveled edges, floral endpapers. First Edition. Presentation slip, signed by the author, mounted to front pastedown. 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 features the rare map, tipped in as directed. "Overland narrative, in diary form, of the first emigrant train entering California in 1849" - Howes J173. Additional References: Cowan p.316; Graff 2229; Kurutz 364a; Wheat Gold Rush 113. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine slightly leaning, faint soiling to cloth; binding shaken around page 250; very good. Item number: 345388
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