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Delano, Alonzo

Alonzo Delano's Pen-Knife Sketches, or Chips of the Old Block

San Francisco The Grabhorn Press 1934, Reprinted from the only other edition of 1853. Limited to 550 copies. Foreword by G. Ezra Dane. Small quarto. Pp. xxi, [1], 79, [1]. Frontispiece, twenty headpieces, and four full-page drawings in color by Charles Nahl. Printed in double columns. Colophon and thirty-one initials printed in sepia. Original blue-green boards, tan spine, printed paper spine label; colored drawing and title by Charles Nahl on front cover. A very fine and bright copy with the elusive plain peach dust jacket. Scarce in this condition. The humorous sketches of California Gold Rush life by the man as famous for his profile as well as his wit, "Old Block" of California. Includes a new foreword by G. Ezra Dane. One of the Fifty Books of the Year. [Grabhorn: 204].

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