By Alonzo Delano.
Published by the Grabhorn Press.
1934.
Limited to 550 copies.

Alonzo Delano (1806 - 1874), who went by the pen name "Old Block", was an American humorist, pioneer town city father, and a California Gold Rush Forty-niner. Delano's sketches of gold rush camp life rivaled Bret Harte and Mark Twain in popularity.

Ex Libris Robert Glass Cleland (1885-1957)
Signed.
President of the Historical Society of Southern California.

A well-known California historian, scholar, professor, and college administrator. As a writer and scholar, he published 32 works, numerous articles, and writings in the fields of Southwestern and California history.

198mm x 282mm

R1,500.