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Seller's Description:
Good. No dustjacket as issued. Size: 0x0x0; Minor shelf wear to binding on corners, edges & spine. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Gift inscription typed on a label & stuck to ffep. Rear endpaper creased. Pages toning with age, otherwise Text and images unmarked.
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Fine. Book First edition. One of 779 copies. Edited and Introduced by Shirley Sargent. Typed presentation, signed in ink by the Editor on a mailing label affixed to the first free endpaper. 212pp. Illustrations. Red cloth, gilt. Slight bump to head of spine, else a very fine copy. Published for the first time, Hutchings' journal tells of the trials and pleasures of his journey to the California gold fields. Hutchings later became a Yosemite pioneer and its earliest innkeeper, as well as author and publisher. "This is a most literate diary, and was very well edited by Ms. Sargent" (Clark). [Clark and Brunet I: 134; Clark and Brunet II: 154].
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Like New. No dust jacket as issued. #26 of 40 of the collectible edition. Red linen covered boards, bonded leather spine with gilt lettering on front panel and spine. Journal of his overland trek to California, including his voyage to America, 1848, and letters from the Mother Lode. Edited and introduced by Shirley Sargent. Yosemite pioneer and innkeeper, early California journalist, publisher and chronicler of the mines and mountains, Hutchings looms large in California history. He was the author of "The Miner's Ten Commandments" (1853), "Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity" (1860), "In the Heart of the Sierras" (1886) and editor-publisher of Hutchings California Magazine. This special edition was arranged by the original publisher from the original printed sheets.
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Seller's Description:
Like New. No dust jacket as issued. #26 of 40 of the collectible edition. Red linen covered boards, bonded leather spine with gilt lettering on front panel and spine. Journal of his overland trek to California, including his voyage to America, 1848, and letters from the Mother Lode. Edited and introduced by Shirley Sargent. Yosemite pioneer and innkeeper, early California journalist, publisher and chronicler of the mines and mountains, Hutchings looms large in California history. He was the author of "The Miner's Ten Commandments" (1853), "Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity" (1860), "In the Heart of the Sierras" (1886) and editor-publisher of Hutchings California Magazine. This special edition was arranged by the original publisher from the original printed sheets.
