Take Your Bible in One Hand. The Life of William Henry Thomes...

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1939 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 750 copies issued from The Colt Press by Jane Swinerton, William Roth, & Jane Grabhorn. Thin quarto. 67pp. Numerous small illustrations, title printed in red and black. Black cloth-backed light blue boards, paper spine label, decorative label on front cover. Edges of boards slightly darkened (as usual), else a fine and clean copy. A biographical sketch with an emphasis upon Thomes' contacts with early California and his mastery of a popular literary technique, as well as his experiences in the Gold Rush. Part one draws from Thomes' "Recollections of old times in California;" part two from his "The Reminiscences of a Gold Hunter" (first published in 1882 in Ballou's Monthly Magazine), and part three from "The Pioneers of '49" by Nicholas Ball (1891). This book is notorious for the boards being edge-darkened, corners showing, general wear, etc. Our copy has the obligatory edge darkening (less so than usual) and is otherwise fine. [Rocq: 16080]..