Virginia and Truckee; a Story of Virginia City and Comstock Times
Oakland, Ca. (1991): Grahame H. Hardy, 1949. Oblong Quarto. Item #024159
Second edition. Frontispiece, 58 (5) pp. Signed by both authors on the front free endpaper, decorations by E.S. Hammack with maps and lettering by Frederic Shaw. The story of the golden railroad to yesterday. The railroad which made possible the Big Bonanza, the railroad whose bright famer for decades was outshone only by the names of the mines themselves whose wealth it carried down to the mills on the Carson River. This is the story of a railroad so endowed with romance and wealthy destinies as to have become a legend in it own lifetime. It was once the riches railroad in the world. A fine copy bound in brown cloth decorated in black depicting a train in black, spine lettering black, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
Price: $55.00