A Kid on the Comstock: Reminiscences of a Virginia City Childhood by Waldorf, John Taylor; edited with commentary by Dolores Waldorf Bryant - 1970

Palo Alto, California: American West Publishing Co, 1970. Hardbound . 1st Edition, thus. BINDING/CONDITION: a handsome binding - dark emerald green cloth with vignette in gilt; gilt spine text; the jacket and endpapers are a matching olive green shade; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The jacket would be Fine but for fading at the spine. Book design by John Beyer. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Following is taken from Stanley Paher's Nevada (number 2084): ''The author's reminiscences of his boyhood in Virginia City, beginning in 1873, originally appeared in the San Francisco Bulletin shortly after 1900. These fond remembrances capture the essence of the heyday of Virginia City, when the town was dirty, noisy, dangerous, exciting and tough -- all because of silver. Here is an uncommonly lively and authoritative portrait of the West's largest silver camp.''. 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) 198 pages. Notes, reading list, index. Olive green endpapers.