Echoes of the Past About California / In Camp and Cabin de BIDWELL, John, and STEELE, John - 1928

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1928. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. xxii, 377pp. Top edge gilt. Captioned-tissue-guarded frontispiece, foldout map, 2 illustrations. Very good. Spine lightly sunned, though internally tight and fine; rear inner hinge archivally mended, thus strong. A tight and quite attractive 26th volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints, keepsakes produced for customers and employees. Bidwell's account (subtitled "An Account of the First Emigrant Train to California, Fremont in the Conquest of California, the Discovery of Gold and Early Reminiscences") was first published in 1914, Steele's (subtitled "Mining Life and Adventure, in California During 1850 and Later") in 1901. See HOWES B 432 and HOWES S 924.