Hardcover
1944 · Boston
by Dobie, J. Frank
Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1944. 4th printing. Hardcover. [tight clean book, with just a bit of shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket has a few tiny tears and chips along the top edge (front and rear panels both), still bright and attractive]. (color plates, pen and ink drawings) Beguiling mash-up of fact and legend about the mother(s) of all gold and silver mines, supposedly "still there!" somewhere in the American Southwest, by an author who "has prospected more exhaustively into the history and legends of the southwest than any other man [and presents] a nerve-tingling account of buried treasure truer than many that launched fleets and depopulated towns." . (Inventory #: 22595)