New York: Halcyon House, December 1938. Fourth printing. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt; endpaper maps. Frontispiece portrait; xi, (3), 423, (1) pages; 13 additional plates. Signed by the author. Gift inscription. Top edge with damp-stain; else very good. A biography of the famous settler John Augustus Sutter (1803–1880), the German-Swiss..... More
New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1934. First edition. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt; jacket. Frontispiece portrait; (iii)–xi, (1), 423, (5) pages; 13 additional plates. Inscribed and signed by the author (see comments). Very good or better in a very good, price-clipped jacket. A popular biography of the famous settler..... More
New York: Halcyon House, December 1938. Fourth printing. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt; endpaper maps; vibrantly colored jacket. Frontispiece portrait; xi, (3), 423, (1) pages; 13 additional plates. Gift inscription. Fine in near fine jacket. While this edition of Dana’s biography of Sutter is not particularly scarce, copies with well-preserved..... More