The Golden Days of '49: A Tale of the California Diggings by Munroe, Kirk - 1899

This is a 1924 edition, published by Dodd, Meade, & Company, New York. This work by Kirk Munroe, is a classic about the California Gold Rush. The book is in fine condition, as is the spine. No rips, no tears, no writing or graffiti, nor missing pages. Please see photos.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co., 1889. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First printing, correct for this publisher as noted by McBride. A Fine copy with sharp boards, stiff spine, clean newish interior and pointed tips. Appears unread. Bookseller impression on title page. 19x12.5 cm (7½x5"), green cloth pictorially stamped in white. No jacket. .

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1889 First edition. Pp. ix,[1], 351. Plates, including frontis, after drawings by W.C. Jackson. Red pictorial cloth stamped in silver on spine and front cover. Spine slightly sunned. Early owner's name on endpaper. A fine, tight copy. A novel of the California Gold Rush, popular enough to be reprinted twice prior to 1924. Thirty-two chapters including Off for the Land of Gold; From Havana to Chagres, San Francisco in the Spring of '49; Up the Sacramento River; Gold Diggings and Diggers; From Dusty Gulch to Sacramento; San Francisco Revisited; The Making of a State; and more. "California politics and elections of the early days are described. Adventures of a miner during the gold rush. Calaveras, Stockton, San Francisco, Sacramento, Monterey, 1848-1850" (Baird & Greenwood). "A boys story of the Gold Rush" (Wheat). [Baird & Greenwood: 1833; Cowan: p.447; Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush: 97n, appendix]..