Mountains and Molehills by Frank Marryat
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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
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x, [2], 443 pp. With 8 chromolithograph plates with tissue guards, from drawings by the author. (8vo)21.5x13.5 cm. (8¼x5¼"), half calf and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered green leather label, all edges marbled. Rebacked with original spine leather laid down. 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.
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