Published by Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1998
Seller: Chanticleer Books, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First edition. Original red cloth and pictorial boards; octavo; 71 pp. Illustrated. The text, originally published in New Orleans in 1852 as an account of a crime and frontier justice administered, is declared in the introduction by Richard Dillon to belong to that genre of American fiction he calls "California Gold Rush gallows confessions." Autographed by Richard Dillon of front free endpaper. Fine copy in very good, slipcase.