Take Your Bible in One Hand: The Life of William Henry Thomes Author of A Whaleman's Adventures on Land and Sea

by George R. Stewart

$35 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. 4to, 67 pp. Quarter black cloth, blue paper boards with illustration on black paper mounted to upper board, paper label lettered in black to backstrip. Bookplate. Boards lightly sunned and soiled, internally clean; very good. § Edition of 750 copies. Biography of American adventure novelist William H. Thomes 1824-1895 who based his novels on his own adventures in the Californian and Australian gold rushes. Item #126892

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