VIRGINIA AND TRUCKEE: A STORY OF VIRGINIA CITY AND COMSTOCK TIMES (Deluxe, Limited Edition) by Beebe, Lucius and Charles Clegg - 1949

Oakland, California: Grahame H. Hardy, 1949. STATED FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good Plus Dustjacket. Limited edition of 950 copies, boldly signed by both authors on limitation page. Decorations by E.S. Hammack, including fabulous endpapers, and lettering and maps by Frederic Shaw. Chart at rear lists date about individual locomotives, and cars of the Virginia and Truckee. Bibliography at end of book. Loaded with black and white photographs, maps, and drawings. Octavo, with tan boards and chocolate-brown binding, ruled and lettered in gilt, with gilt sillouetted decoration of locomotive to front board. Just the slightest bit of rubbing to extremities, with a tiny nick in the cloth to top edge. Toning to tri-colored dustjacket, with a neat 1/4" chip missing from bottom of spine. Tight, bright, and fairly-priced. This is the story of the rairoad that was built to serve Virginia City and the Comstock Lode, one of the most legendary mining fortunes in Western American History and covers as well ..."the places and people related to its origins, operations and destinies..."