A Sheaf from the West, Gleaned Among the Stubble of the Times
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft, 1880.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 6.75" x 4.5", 160 pp, bound in original brick cloth with gilt title on front board. Moderate wear to extremities, some soiling to read board, internals clean and sound. Early ownership signature of J.B. Gray on front free endpaper. Scarce collection of (mostly) original maxims and aphorisms offered "to the people of California and elsewhere" as "a full broadside upon the masked batteries of fraud and hypocrisy which are wreathing their temples with the golden spoils which are wrung by bad laws or by the weakness of good ones, from the laboring toil of honest worth." Seven copies located in OCLC.
Item #24249
Price: $100.00