Item #13793 Pictorial Humor of the Gold Rush; [The Book Club of California annual keepsake]. Carl Wheat, Ed. Chair of Keepsakes Comm.
Pictorial Humor of the Gold Rush; [The Book Club of California annual keepsake]
Pictorial Humor of the Gold Rush; [The Book Club of California annual keepsake]
Pictorial Humor of the Gold Rush; [The Book Club of California annual keepsake]
Pictorial Humor of the Gold Rush; [The Book Club of California annual keepsake]

Pictorial Humor of the Gold Rush; [The Book Club of California annual keepsake]

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1953. Very Good in Good dust-jacket First Edition. Grabhorn Press. Keepsake to members of the Book Club of California of 12 folders [10x8in], issued in three parts, with commentary and facsimile reproductions of articles, illustrations and cartoons, with several from the collection of Edwin Grabhorn. Some tanning of exterior of folders and wear and tear to original mailing wrapper, tipped in letters from Book Club of California Secretary on the two of the three distributions of the 1953 Keepsake. [Grabhorn 532]. Item #13793

The twelve facsimiles include: "The Miner's Ten Commandments", "The Gold Rush Elephant", Penny Postcards of the Gold Rush, "The Feast of Gold", "The Jolly Old Miner" and others. The narrative contributors include: Carol Wenzel, Nat Schmulowitz, Jane Grabhorn, Paul Speegle, Edna Martin Parratt, Francis J. Carmody, David Magee, Oscar Lewis, Louis de Guiringaud, Tyrus G. Harmsen, Robert E. Burke and Edward Bosley.

Price: $70.00

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