Author: HALE, RICHARD L.; RUSS, CAROLYN HALE (EDITOR)
Title: The Log of a Forty-Niner: Journal of a Voyage from Newburyport to San Francisco in the Brig Gen'l Worth Commanded by Captain Samuel Walton
Description: Boston: B. J. Brimmer Company, 1923. Hardcover. A account of a voyage from Newburyport, Massachusetts to San Francisco by Richard L. Hale and subsequent adventures between 1849 and 1854. Edited from her father's manuscripts by his daughter Carolyn Hale Russ, who has supplied a foreword. With illustrations by Richard Hale, along with plates bearing photographic portraits and journal entries. --- In dark green paper-covered boards backed in navy cloth, with paper labels to cover and spine. --- Despite wear to cover edges, partial loss of spine label, prior owner's signature to front paste-down, and some discoloration to a few leaves volume remains firm and solid.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); 183 pages. Good with no dust jacket .

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