Ruth Gaines Edited (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Soft cover staple binding, 9.5 X 6" 68 pages (1979). Harold L. (Hal) Rothschild began his cooking career in 1915 when the camp cook for the surveying party he was with vanished one night. His comments and experiences make interesting reading and the recipes are very good indeed. Cheese Chatter was published by Richard (Dick) K. Ransom, managing partner of Hickory Farms after a hunting trip into northern Saskatchewan where Hal did the cooking. Ray Kozak, Jr. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Original oversized gilt-titled cloth. Spine softened/flattened. Mild faint stain to lower edge of text block and cloth. PO inscription. The DJ has chipping, creasing, and edge tears. ; Over 60 Illustrations; quarto; lxxii, 794 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition. Two volumes, [large octavo], lxxxviii, 630pp; viii, [631]-1404pp. Publisher's gray boards, black cloth spine, lettered in gilt. Illustrated with frontispieces, maps, facsimiles, and reproductions of Bruff's drawings and sketches. Housed in the publisher's slipcase with printed paper label on side panel. Glassine dust jackets, light shelf wear. A fine copy. From an unstated limited edition of 1250 copies. (Howes R91) (Kurutz 93) (Wheat 25) (Zamorano Select 9). Bruff led the Washington City and California Mining Association overland to California in 1849. His journals document the journey west, life in the mining districts, and his return to Washington in 1851. The first edition of Gold Rush by J. Goldsborough Bruff, edited by Georgia Willis Read and Ruth Gaines. The "most elaborate of overland narratives." (Howes). (illustrator).…