Item #2318716 Old Block's Sketch Book [Sketchbook]. Alonzo Delano, Marguerite Eyer Wilbur, Thomas E. Williams.
Old Block's Sketch Book [Sketchbook]

Old Block's Sketch Book [Sketchbook]

Santa Ana, Calif. The Fine Arts Press, 1947. Nahl, Charles. Large Hardcover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2318716

No jacket. Light stain, spine base bumped.

89 pp. "Of all the colorful raconteurs of the Gold Rush era, none has more warmly touched the popular fancy than Alonzo Delano, otherwise known as Old Block. This scholarly wielder of an ironic pen depicts the halcyon days of early California as he saw them; the joys and tragedies of a miner's life are told with wit and pathos... Through Old Block's pages there passes a strange panorama of men and events that made up the mining world in and around Sacramento and the innumerable mushroom placer mines that sprang into existence within a radius of several hundred miles."--foreword

Price: $35.00