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Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, Light rubbing to head/tail of spine and corners. Interior clean and binding sound. A Beautiful Copy! #A2/AB/B
Seller: This Old Book, Inc, Grayslake, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Title continues: A series of original illustrated letters, written by one of California's pioneer miners, and dedicated to that class of her citizens by the author. Reprinted from the only edition (1853) with illustrations by Charles Nahl and a new foreword by G.Ezra Dane. pp xxii, 80, with color frontispiece and illustrations. Cloth -backed boards with mounted color illustration. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges, spine label chipped, mild ripple to text block. One of 500 copies printed.
Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 28 x 19 cm, [xxii], 79, colophon pp., two color frontispiece, red [tiny] and black title page, contents, foreword, introduction, publisher's preface, red initials through out and colored drawings above each of twenty stories, 550 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press Provenance: Book plate of Arthur R. Andersen (1893/07/29-1975/09/06) on front fixed end paperQuarto size, 80 pp. Alonzo Delano (1806 - 1874), who went by the pen name "Old Block", was an American humorist, pioneer town city father, and a California Gold Rush Forty-niner; his sketches of gold rush camp life rivaled Bret Harte and Mark Twain in popularity (N. B. info from Wikipedia). This edition was published by the Grabhorn Press, one of the most highly renowned private presses in America in the twentieth century, run by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in blue-green boards with tan cloth spine, front pastedown with full-colour illustration and title by Charles Nahl, cream paper label on spine with black lettering; frontispiece, twenty headpieces, and four full-page drawings in colour by Nahl, decorative initial capital letters; black and sepia text in Janson linotype in double columns on machine made paper, quarto size), 80 pages, limited edition of 550 copies, unnumbered. ___CONDITION: Book is in near fine condition with brightly coloured illustrations, the front label has some minor chips, slight wear to corners and head of the spine. ___CITATION: Heller & Magee no. 204. __
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: One of 550 copies. FINE BOOK IN RARE, ORANGE-BROWN DUST JACKET WITH TWO SHORT TEARS AND SLIGHT EDGE WEAR. NO WRITING OR NAMES.
Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
DELANO, Alonzo. Alonzo Delano's Pen-Knife Sketches or Chips of the Old Block. , 1934.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: DELANO, Alonzo. Alonzo Delano's Pen-Knife Sketches or Chips of the Old Block. A Series of Original Illustrate Letters, Written by one of California's Pioneer Miners. Reprinted from the Only Edition (1853) with the Illustrations by Charles Nahl and a New Foreword by G. Ezra Dane. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934. One of 550 copies. 4to. xxii, 80 pp., frontis., illus. Orig. cloth-backed boards with pictorial pastedown, and printed paper spine label. Plain publisher's wrapper with penciled title on the spine. Fine. HOWES D-232. One of 550 copies. Original invoice and remittance envelope are laid in. From the Grabhorn Press Rare Americana Second Series No. 4.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 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].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.