Pictures of Gold Rush California.
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1949. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. xlv, 383pp. Top edge gilt. Map frontispiece. Fair only. Boards mottled and sunned; endpapers and text block wavy and lightly dampstained. Item #50534
To call this 47th volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints "well loved" would be disingenuous and euphemistic. But despite the homely condition it bears a distinguished provenance, hailing from the collection of Illinois senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021) and before him of his father, Illinois governor and twice Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65) -- and Governor Stevenson boldly signs the front flyleaf in full in pencil, dating in 1949. A title in R.R. Donnelley's Christmas keepsakes produced for customers and employees was first published in 1907.
Price: $35.00