Lanson Miles (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. R5 - A first edition (no additional printings) hardcover book in fair condition that has some bumped corners, wear and tears on the cover edges and some sides, torn and loose hinge on the front endpaper, scattered stains, moderate tanning, and shelf wear with no dust jacket. A Legend of the Sierra Nevada and Miscellaneous Verse with illustrations by Harry Fenn and others. 7.5"x6.25". 150 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 150; errata slip, 6 plates by Harry Fenn, et al.; but for three small spots on the front cover, a fine copy in original red cloth gilt, a.e.g. Although the introduction is dated Newark, N.J., 1891, it begins: "To my fellow miners of California and the Pacific coast." Several of the poems and illustrations are about western mining; of the others, one is against the beliefs of Robert G. Ingersoll, the agnostic, and another is to Frank Forrester, the great sporting writer who had committed suicide in Newark in 1858, and who appears to have been a friend of the poet's. Not in Cowan.