HOLMES. Roberta Evelyn. THE SOUTHERN MINES OF CALIFORNIA. EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE SONORA MINING REGION. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1930.

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.

Roberta Evelyn Holmes. The Southern Mines of California: Early Development of the Sonora Mining Region. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1930.

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.