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Charles Dickens; Wilkie Collins. The Wreck of the Golden Mary: A Saga of the California Gold Rush. Allen Press, 1956.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited to 200cc. Illustrated by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Sppine sunned.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles; Collins, Wilkie. The Wreck of the Golden Mary: A Saga of the California Gold Rush. The Allen Press, Kentfield California, 1956.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: "This book is one of an edition limited to two hundred copies; the type face is Bulmer, hand-set; the paper is handmade Japanese vellum; and the paper for the binding is French handmade. Printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen at the Allen Press." Quarter binding. Slight sunning to the spine, with wear to the head and tail. Pages clean and unmarked. 90pp. 10.75 x 7.5"

Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles; Collins, Wilkie. Wreck of the Golden Mary: A Saga of the California Gold Rush. The Allen Press, Kentfield, California, 1956.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Black and white marbled paper boards. Quarter-bound rose colored spine with white lettering. Sunning on spine. One of 200 copies. Black and turquoise lettering throughout the book. Stunning wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. An exciting story of a vessel shipwrecked on its way to the California gold fields.

Seller: Back of Beyond Books WH, Moab, UT, U.S.A.

(Allen Press) Dickens (Charles) and Wilkie Collins. The Wreck of the Golden Mary: A Saga of the Californian Gold Rush, by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Wood-Engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton.. Crown 4to, pp.90 + proof engravings, 26cm, (Dorothy and Lewis Allen) Allen Press, Kentfield, California, 1956., 1956.

Price: US$3248.86 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Set in Bulmer with Commercial Script for display and printed in surf green and black on handmade Japanese vellum. Xylographic 'by' on the title-page designed by Mallette Dean. One of 200 copies. Illustrated with seven wood-engravings. French marbled paper-covered boards, resembling storm tossed ocean water, pink spine with white titling and acetate jacket. This copy with one of the fifteen sets of proof wood-engravings, by Blair Hughes-Stanton, all signed and captioned in pencil. Housed together in a cloth solander box, lettered in gilt on the spine. Bookplate of Donald Lee Williams. Fine condition with prospectus loosely inserted. The text is the fictional story of the wreck of an English ship bound for California in 1851. The story is told in the first person throughout, with the captain speaking at the start, and the first mate taking over after he collapses. Some do finally make it to San Francisco and the gold Dickens and Collins wrote this tale specially for the Christmas, 1856, number of Household Words.

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom