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Author: Marryat, Frank
Title: Mountains and Molehills: or Recollections of a Burnt Journal
Place Published: London
Publisher:Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans
Date Published: 1855
Description: x, [2], 443 + 24 ad pp. With 8 chromolithograph plates from drawings by the author. (8vo) 22.2x14 cm (8¾x5½"), publisher's cloth lettered on spine in gilt, blindstamped boards. First Edition. One of the most sought-after books on the California Gold Rush, noteworthy both for the striking color lithographs and the entertaining text. Wheat declares it an "excellent narrative of experiences in the diggings, with colored lithographic plates of great beauty and importance. The New York edition...lacked these remarkable plates" - Wheat. Kurutz quotes Howell as calling the book one of the best descriptions of life in the mines, and lauds both the graphic excellence of the plates as well as their revelation of the author's wry sense of humor. Cowan p.416; Graff 2685; Howes M299; Kurutz 329a; Wheat Gold Rush 137; Zamorano Eighty 52. Armorial bookplate of William M. Fitzhugh. Bookseller label on rear pastedown.

Spine darkened, boards faded and soiled, joints starting; front hinge cracked, ffep partially detached and title page; bookplate, typed catalog description tipped to first blank, bookseller sticker on rear pastedown.