My Playhouse was a Concord Coach: An Anthology of Newspaper Clippings and Documents Relating to those Who Made California History During the Years 1822-1888 (SIGNED)
Oakland CA: Howell-North Press, 1942. First Edition. Large 4to. xvi, 763pp. Index. Photo-illustrations; maps (8 folding). Author PRESENTATION copy with her signature on the colophon which states the book is not for sale. Small owner label. Publisher's blue buckram with gilt lettering; blind-stamped illustration of horse-drawn coach on upper cover; photo-illustrated endpapers. Minor wear to extremities; faint scratch line to front & rear covers; small spot to spine tale else a fine copy of an increasingly scarce title. Item #14042
Chronological clippings, maps, and other documentation of California between 1822 and 1888. "Contains a mass of historical information on Northern California from 1822 to 1888." - Howes B-570. "... practically a history of western stagecoaching as taken from contemporary newspapers, and contains much information on road agents such as Black Bart and Tom Bell and on their robberies." - Six-Guns 110. (Dykes, Rare Western Outlaw Books 29; Rocq 15700).
Price: $500.00