Stewart, George R.

Take Your Bible in One Hand. The Life of William Henry Thomes...

San Francisco Colt Press 1939, First edition. Limited to 750 copies issued from The Colt Press by Jane Swinerton, William Roth, & Jane Grabhorn. Thin quarto. Numerous small illustrations, title printed in red and black. Cloth-backed light blue boards, paper spine label, decorative label on front cover. Boards discolored, soiled, and lightly rubbing at the corners. Has a cut on the front cover. Previous owner's ink signature. Otherwise a good copy, internally fine. A biographical sketch with an emphasis upon Thomes' contacts with early California and his mastery of a popular literary technique. Part one draws from Thomes' "Recollections of old times in California," part two from his "The Reminiscences of a Gold Hunter" (first published in 1882 in Ballou's Monthly Magazine), and part three from "The Pioneers of '49" by Nicholas Ball (1891).

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