A Trip to the Gold Mines of California in 1848

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1960 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 400 copies printed by Taylor & Taylor. Edited, with Introduction and Notes by John A. Hussey. Pp. xxxv, [1], 51, [2]. Frontispiece portrait. Notes. Brown marbled boards, gilt-lettered dark green leather spine. A fine copy. A Gold Rush memoir written in 1870 for Bancroft's History, considered particularly valuable as a "pick-and-shovel" account of life in the diggings. Swan was also an early and prominent pioneer in Monterey. [Kurutz:614; Rocq: 16095]..