The Notorious I.C. Woods of the Adams Express

Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1986 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First edition. One of 1002 copies. Foreword by Kevin Starr. 144pp. Portraits, plates, facsimiles; index. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A well-researched biography of this San Francisco businessman and entrepreneur, Isaiah Churchill Woods, who had the misfortune to be associated with Adams and Company when it collapsed during the panic of 1855. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author. Also signed by Ruth Teiser, to whom the book was dedicated, on the dedication page. Also with a full page original illustration in pen by Marjorie Reed, of a stagecoach and horses, inscribed and signed by her. Marjorie Reed was a well known Western artist; the dust jacket illustration is of one of her paintings.[Clark and Brunet I: 231; Clark and Brunet II: 260]..