Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: number 55 of 250 copies. edge wear, some scuffs and scratches to binding. one chip on front marbled cover. moisture staining on bottom corner of pages. larger stain inside back cover and on last page - light bleed through to next to last page. pages are age toned, but unmarked. original price sticker affixed inside back cover from Newbegins, a San Francisco book store.
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$340.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (x) 60 pp. SIGNED in ink on the limitation page by Ed Grabhorn. An un-numbered copy of 250 limited copies. Folding frontis map of Southern Mines, 1852. 2 folded reproductions of contemporary lithographs. Facsimile map. Illustrations from photographs. Quoted statements of pioneer miners. Bibliography.Three quarter black cloth-backed red marbled boards. Spine label. 8 1/2" x 12 3/4". One of the Fifty Books of the Year. Excellent and complete coverage of the subject. Essential to any California Gold Rush collection. Scarce. GB 140. A Very Good Plus copy (Edgewear; some toning to endpapers; slight foxing at edge of some pages), now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.
Seller: Hardy Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [x], 60 pp., illustrated with a frontispiece foldout map, 2 foldout reproductions of contemporary lithographic views and 3 pages of early black-and-white photographs; large 4to, bound in half black cloth, marbled paper sides, paper title label. No. 94 of 250 copies; SIGNED by Edwin Grabhorn on the limitation page. The copy of James Strohn Copley (1916-1973), the journalist, newspaperman, and publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune (his sale, Sotheby's, June 17, 2010, lot 235), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Very good copy; cover edges lightly rubbed, several leaves lightly spotted at the foredge. An AIGA Fifty Books of the Year (1930). Heller and Magee 140.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Number 54 of 250 copies. Thin quarto. [x], 60pp. Folding frontis map, 2 folding facsimile lithographs, facsimile map, 3 full pages with reproductions of early photographs; notes and bibliography. Three quarter black cloth, red marbled boards, gilt-lettered red spine label. Bookplate on front free endpaper. A fine, clean copy. Very scarce and sought-after. One of the best works on the subject. Covers early mining in the area; first trails, pack trains, express lines to the Southern mines; foreigners in the mines (prejudice, foreign miner's tax, Mexicans, abuse and continued agitation against the Chinese, etc.); government in the mines (military control, gentleman's code, miner's meetings and courts, lynch law, Vigilance Committee, etc.); Mining methods (placer mining, the Rocker, mining ditches, the Long Tom, quartz, pocket and hydraulic mining, etc.); Columbia; social life in the mines (Sunday in the mines, amusements, influence of women, etc.). [Grabhorn: 140; missed by Kurutz].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Of an edition of 250 copies this is one of 25 copies for presentation, specially bound. On the colophon (bound at the front) we can read - "This copy for Francis Farquhar from his friend Ed Grabhorn." Folio. 60 pp. Illustrated with folding map frontispiece, two folding reproductions of lithographs, one facsimile map, and from photographs. Publisher's presentation binding of quarter red crushed morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering. Mild sunning to spine and a bit of wear to extremities but overall an excellent copy in the original slipcase.Prospectus laid in. A detailed, well-documented account of the towns and camps of the Sonora Mining Region during the period of their great activity, including reminiscences of individuals who had lived there in the 1850's and 60's. Holmes recorded all her interviews in 1925 as her thesis and it was finally published in this book in 1930.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.