[Rarebooks] FS: Colt Press limited edition, signed

[Bob Petrilla]

Stewart, George R.  TAKE YOUR BIBLE IN ONE HAND: The Life of William Henry
Thomes, author of A Whaleman's Adventures on Land and Sea.... San
Francisco: Colt Press, 1939.  First Edition.  pp: 66, (1), colophon;
rubricated title-page, vignettes in margins, printer's device above
colophon.    Presentation inscription on blank flyleaf, signed by the
author. Bound in cloth-backed pale-green boards, Colt Press device mounted
on cover, paper spine label; edges of boards sunned.  11.5" x 8.25".  Very
Good condition.

Limited to 750 copies issued from The Colt Press by Jane Swinnerton,
William Roth & Jane Grabhorn.  Thomes emigrated from New England to
California, sailing around the Horn in 1849.  $65.00

Postpaid in US.  Usual trade terms.



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