The Literature of the Gold Rush

New York, 1949 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First separate edition, first published in January, 1949 in The New Colophon, v. 2, part 5. Thin quarto. Pp. 54-67. Printed in brown and black. Original gray wrappers printed in black. Very slight darkening to edges of wrappers, but a fine copy. This article was obviously the outcome of Wheat's research and interest in books about the California Gold Rush which culminated in his Books of the California Gold Rush, a Centennial Selection published the same year. The author covers the official reports; the earliest descriptive accounts; narratives sent or brought back from California; later reminiscences; contemporary accounts printed for the first time in recent years; fiction and drama, and the researchers. [Harding, Writings of Wheat: 94]..