Author: QUAIFE, Milo Milton (editor)
Title: Pictures of Gold Rush California
Description: Chicago, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1949. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. xlv, 383pp. Top edge gilt. Map frontispiece. Fair only. Boards mottled and sunned; endpapers and text block wavy and lightly dampstained. To call this 47th volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints "well loved" would be disingenuous and euphemistic. But despite the homely condition it bears a distinguished provenance, hailing from the collection of Illinois senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021) and before him of his father, Illinois governor and twice Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65) -- and Governor Stevenson boldly signs the front flyleaf in full in pencil, dating in 1949. A title in R.R. Donnelley's Christmas keepsakes produced for customers and employees was first published in 1907. .

Keywords: Western Americana


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