1946 Saxton Eugene (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket. Fogarty, Thomas (illustrator). First Edition. Garden City, New York:: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913. A beautiful copy with NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Corners are NOT bumped. Inner hinges are perfectly sound. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp and unmarked. No foxing. Handsomely illustrated by Thomas Fogarty with four color plates on coated paper, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece, and several small drawings in the text. Illustrated endpapers and title page. Bound in the original green pictorial cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine and front cover. Gilt stamping on the spine and front is still bright and shiny. The front cover is also stamped in bright red and black with a scene of two miners panning for gold with an evergreen forest in the background. The red color in the miners' shirts and their gold bandannas remain amazingly vibrant, with absolutely no rubbing or flaking. First book in the author's California trilogy. At the end of this copy is the unillustrated (earliest) version of Eugene F. Saxton's 13 page essay on White. Although we have seen claims that a yellow cloth binding on this book is preferable, NONE of the bibliographies cited below give priority to any specific binding color. Eppard p. 357 (FIRST PRINTINGS OF AMERICAN AUTHORS, Vol. 5): "Earliest copies have separately paginated STEWART EDWARD WHITE bound in at the end, without illustrations." Johnson HIGH SPOTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE p. 77. Cowan BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA, p. 680. Dykes WESTERN HIGH SPOTS p. 35. Baird & Greenwood 2586 [AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA FICTION]: "White's CALIFORNIA TRILOGY. begins with this novel of the gold rush. This volume has as its source some of the better-known gold rush journals and letters. It is interesting in its handling of historical materials." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./No jacket. Illus. by Fogarty, Thomas . 8vo. x, 437pp. + 13 page biography.

vii, [3], 437, [1], 14 pp. Frontis & 3 internal color plates by Thomas Fogarty. Crown 8vo. White's "California Trilogy" begins with this novel of the Gold Rush. The volume concludes with Saxton's essay on White, "A Little Chat about the Man and his Books." VG+ (slt lean/pos dated 1913)/VG (some edgewear, with chipping at head of spine panel [title lettering not affected]). Uncommon in dust jacket. Original mustard-yellow vertically-grained cloth stamped in red, black & gilt. Pictorial eps. Dust jacket 1st edition (Baird & Greenwood 2586; Cowan, p. 680; Smith W-500). INSCRIBED by the Author.