Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. One folded sheet. [4] pp. Very good. This is a prospectus for a book, not the book itself.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green paper covered boards. xvi, {2}, 144 pp. Frontispiece portrait, 2 folding plates, folding color map. One of 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Printed at the Grabhorn Press. 4 page announcement on the release of this book tipped in.One of 500 copies. Plastic cover over the boards is covered by a plain brown paper DJ. Paper label on the front board and the spine look very good. Green olive boards look well protected. The hinges and the spine are very good. The inside pages are unmarked. All three folded reproductions plates are present and attached. Howes P105, Kurtz 483b.
Seller: M and N Books and Treasures, Bellevue, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green boards. Paper labels to the front and spine. Printed by The Grabhorn Press. There is a large, rectangular browned area to the front free endpaper. The original prospectus is laid in loose. A very good copy with the spine being somewhat darkened. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 144 pages
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited to 500 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. Having emigrated to California in 1844, Marshall (1810-85) discovered gold on the American River while working to deepen the tailrace beneath the water wheel that turned the sawmill in which he and John Sutter were partners. In the rush that followed, both men lost their workers and then their land, and Marshall was left an embittered and depressed man. Introduction and Notes by G. Ezra Dane. Octavo: xvi, 144 p. with a photographic portrait and three folding panoramic plates. Original green paper-covered boards, with an illustration inset on the front board and a printed paper spine label. The spine is lightly toned; else near fine.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Prospectus for an edition of The Life and Adventures of James W. Marshall. the Discoverer of Gold in California. Introduced and annotated by G. Ezra Dane. Single sheet folded once to make a 4-pp. booklet. 6-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches (folded dimensions). Also included is an announcement from the Grabhorn Press of the end of the Rare Americana series of reprints. Contains a complete list of books in the series. One sheet folded once to make a 4-pp. booklet. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches (folded dimensions).
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: (xvi) 144 pp. Introduction by G. Ezra Dane. Limited to 550 un-numbered copies, printed by The Grabhorn Press of San Francisco, after the 1870 First Edition. Original green boards with paper labels. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4". Frontispiece from portrait of James Marshall. Three folding illustrations, including one from a gold discovery map drawn by Marshall. A Fine copy, now in a custom clear 4mil protective jacket. GB #225. Kurutz 483b. 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.
PARSONS, George F.. Life and Adventures of James W. Marshall the Discoverer of Gold. , 1935.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: PARSONS, George F. The Life and Adventures of James W. Marshall the Discoverer of Gold in California. Intro. & Notes by G. Ezra Dane. San Francisco: George Fields, 1935. Illus. (one folding in color) & folding map. A fine copy in orig. boards; printed paper label on spine. Howes P105. One of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: San Francisco: George Fields, 1935. Second edition (Kurutz, 483b), the first was published in Sacramento in 1870 by Marshall himself with W. Burke (483a). Original paper boards, printed paper label, paper illustration on the front board, 144 pages, illustrated (four offset reprodctions, including three folding). Printed by the Grabhorn Press. In Fine condition.
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1 of 450 regular copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. 7 1/2" x 5"; two blank leaves; pp. i-xvi; pp. (xvii-xviii); pp. 1-144; colophon. Bound in green boards; white label with brown block-print on front cover; white label printed in black on the spine. Illustrated with a portrait photograph of Marshall and a folding color panorama reproducing Sutter's Saw Mill, from a painting by Charles Nahl. In plain brown paper jacket with title in pencil on spine, in a clear mylar cover with descptive label on spine.
Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Reprint of the 1870 first edition which Marshall himself published. One of 450 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Introduction & Notes by G. Ezra Dane. Small 8vo. xvi, 144pp. Portrait. Green boards with pictorial label on front cover and printed title label on spine. A very fine and bright copy with the elusive plain dust jacket. "Parson's biography has been called one of the most important works of California history. Much of the book details not only Marshall's famous discovery but also the 'curse' that dogged much of his life" (Kurutz). [Grabhorn Bibliography: 225; Kurutz: 483-b; Rocq: 1821].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Reissue of the 1870 first edition (Sacramento: James W. Marshall and W. Burke), printed at the Grabhorn Press. xvi, 1 leaf, 144 pp; folding map; folding plate. Original boards. Near Fine. Tipped in at the rear is the 'Quicksilver Claim of Wm. Hill & Others', recorded February 28, 1863, and signed by William Faymonville, Recorder, Fresno. One of only 47 copies thus bound from an edition of 450 copies, a copy sold at PBA Galleries admittedly with a superior document for $1,200, April 7, 2016. Faymonville (1825?-1888) was elected the first mayor of Fresno on October 27, 1885. The First Edition is considered one of the most important works of California history. Close to an autobiography, it was written to support Marshall's claim to a pension in 1870. Cowan, p. 475; Howes P105; Graff 3204; Kurutz 483a; Howell 50:688; Norris 3013; Rocq 1821; Wheat Books 153. 'A defense, a vindication, and in part a memoir of Marshall, who . . . published the volume in an attempt to secure a pension for his services as gold discoverer. The book was sold at Marshall's 'lectures,' on a tour he made of the state in 1870-71' (Wheat).
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.