first edition Hardcover
1988 · San Francisco
by Allyn, Joseph Pratt
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Edited by John Nicolson and David K. Strate. Frontispiece, with ten plates. First edition, limited to 450 copies. Appointed a judge of the Arizona Territory in 1863, Allyn contracted with an eastern U.S. newspaper to provide a series of letters describing his experience in the West. The seventeen letters in this publication record his impressions of California, Oregon, Nevada and Utah. Original pictorial boards, with a printed paper spine label. A near fine copy in the original plain paper dust jacket. (Inventory #: 54991)