Mcmaster John Bach Foreword (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. iChronicles the journey of Charles Pancoast from Philadelphia, PA to S. Louis, MO, where he was stranded & left bankrupt. He then joined another party headed to the gold fields of CA, taking the seldom-used southern route over a nine-month expedition through uncharted territories & dangerous terrain. This is a personal account of those adventures & the characters he encountered along the way, offering rich insights into the social & personal dimensions of America's westward expansion in the gold rush era. In 402 deckled-edge pages, including Index, with bright orange map endpapers & original sepia-toned drawings by various artists as frontispiece & on full-page plates throughout text. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1930, this hardcover octavo has brown cloth-covered boards with faded gilt lettering & design to spine/blindstamped ruling to front cover. Condition is VG+: unusually clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure. Pages creamy off-white with light tanning, but completely unmarked. Mild rubbing to extremities & slightly bumped corners. No DJ (missing). A handsome copy! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.…