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Lot 345
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
9:59AM CT
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WILLCOX, R. N. Reminiscences of California Life… Avery, OH: Willcox Print, 1897.
8vo (210 x 138 mm). Original publisher's black cloth gilt, black cloth slipcase. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer (presentation bookplate to the Newberry Library, 1911); Newberry Library (deaccession label and presentation bookplate from Ayer); William A. Cordtz (stamp, 1966)
FIRST EDITION, THE AYER COPY, of this scarce, privately published memoir of the California Gold Rush, with only about 75 copies issued, according to Peter Decker's estimate. Howes W-436; Streeter Sale 3024; Decker 36; Graff 4673.