Take Your Bible In One Hand The Life Of William Henry Thomes Author Of A Whaleman's Adventures On Land And Sea, etc. by Stewart, George R - 1939

San Francisco: The Colt Press [1939]. Very Good. 1939. Limited to 750 copies. Hardcover. 4to; paper covered boards, black cloth back with paper spine label. Browning to covers at extremities. .

San Francisco: The Colt Press [1939]. Very Good. 1939. Limited to 750 copies. Hardcover. Signed by the author on title page. 4to; paper covered boards, black cloth back with paper spine label. Browning to covers at extremities; adhesive residue from bookplate on front pastedown. In plain brown paper jacket with closed tear a foot of spine, wear at corners.; Signed by Author(s) .

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 67 pages, minor soiling to cover around edges, limited to 750 copies. Thomess early California experiences, reminiscences of a gold hunter, the pioneers of 49..

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. hardcover, 1/750 copies, 67 pages. Darkening to the edges of the front and rear covers, some wear to the corners, still a very good copy with clean text and tight binding. Illustrated paper covered boards, black cloth backed spine. No dust jacket as issued but with custom mylar cover.

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Very Good Plus/Custom Clear Mylar. 70 pages including colophon. Edition limited to 750 un-numbered copies. Colt Press printer's device and marginal woodcut vignettes by Mallette Dean. 8 1/2" x 11 1/2". Black cloth-backed boards with paper spine label and paper printer's device affixed to front cover. A biographical sketch of New Englander/Argonaut William Henry Thomas, containing material on early Monterey and San Francisco. By the author of "Ordeal By Hunger". Roth,"The Colt Springs High" pgs 63-4. Some toning of the covers (which seems customary for this title) and slight edgewear; overall, Very Good Plus or better, and now in a cutom clear mylar jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes via media mail to any United States address.

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 67 pages, slight soiling to cover around edges, limited to 750 copies. Thomess early California experiences, reminiscences of a gold hunter, the pioneers of 49..

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarter black cloth with grey paper-covered boards, spine and cover labels, 4to., 67, (1) pages, illustrated with 17 charming marginal wood engravings by Mallette Dean (unattributed). One of 750 copies printed. A very good copy with moderate soiling and light edgewear, in archival mylar.

San Francisco, The Colt Press, 1939., 1939. First edition. 4to. Title page and 22 b/w woodcut illustrations in the text. Original 1/2 blue cloth with printed paper label on the spine over gray boards with printed paper illustrated label on the front cover (snag at head of spine). Very good. 67 pages. No signatures or bookplates. One of 750 copies issued from The Colt Press by Jane Swinerton, William Roth & Jane Grabhorn, San Francisco, June 1939. Provenance: from the estate of Rosario Curletti.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1939 First edition. Limited to 750 copies issued from The Colt Press by Jane Swinerton, William Roth, & Jane Grabhorn. Thin quarto. 67pp. Numerous small illustrations, title printed in red and black. Black cloth-backed light blue boards, paper spine label, decorative label on front cover. Boards discolored, soiled, and lightly rubbing at the corners. Has a cut on the front cover. Previous owner's ink signature. Otherwise a good copy, internally fine. A biographical sketch with an emphasis upon Thomes' contacts with early California and his mastery of a popular literary technique. Part one draws from Thomes' "Recollections of old times in California," part two from his "The Reminiscences of a Gold Hunter" (first published in 1882 in Ballou's Monthly Magazine), and part three from "The Pioneers of '49" by Nicholas Ball (1891)..

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1939.. One of 750 copies bound in quarter black cloth with paper over boards. Slight soiling and rubbing to corners, former owner's signature on front free end paper, otherwise very good.