Title: Death Valley in '49: Important Chapter of California Pioneer History Author: Manly, William L. Place: San Jose, CA Publisher: Pacific Tree & Vine Co. Date: 1894 Description: 498 pp. With a frontispiece portrait of the author and 3 plates from drawings. 7¾x5½, original mustard cloth, front cover decorated & lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Classic account, by a survivor, of dire sufferings endured by an emigrant party on a short-cut from Salt Lake City to California through the valley called ever after by this fearful name" - Howes. With T.L.s. from a bookseller, dated 1929, tipped to front endpaper, indicating this and several other copies had been acquired from the publisher's family, this accounting for the superb condition. Cowan p.412; Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.162; Graff 2670; Howes M255; Kurutz 427a; Zamorano Eighty 51. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine gilt just a little dull, else fine. Item number: 173301
Title: Death Valley in '49: Important Chapter of California Pioneer History Author: Manly, William L. Place: San Jose, CA Publisher: Pacific Tree & Vine Co. Date: 1894 Description: 498 pp. With a frontispiece portrait of the author and 3 plates from drawings. 7¾x5½, original mustard cloth, front cover decorated & lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Classic account, by a survivor, of dire sufferings endured by an emigrant party on a short-cut from Salt Lake City to California through the valley called ever after by this fearful name" - Howes. With T.L.s. from a bookseller, dated 1929, tipped to front endpaper, indicating this and several other copies had been acquired from the publisher's family, this accounting for the superb condition. Cowan p.412; Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.162; Graff 2670; Howes M255; Kurutz 427a; Zamorano Eighty 51. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine gilt just a little dull, else fine. Item number: 173301
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