Gold
- Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); green cloth-covered boards with pictorial front cover, and titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [x],[2],3-437,[17]pp; colorful frontispiece illustration, with three additional colorful illustrations on glossy pages, and black and white illustrations throughout. Lacking dustjacket. Light rubbing to board edges, with faint tanning to edges of textblock; Very Good.
"White's 'California Trilogy,' which also includes The Gray Dawn, and The Rose Dawn, begins with this novel of the gold rush. The characters are different in each novel and do not continue throughout the trilogy. This volume has as its source some of the better-known gold rush journals and letters. It is interesting in its handling of historical materials. Gold contains a bit less historical detail than the other two novels in the trilogy. San Francisco and the Mother Lode" (see Baird, California Fiction, 2586). Text Concludes with Eugene F. Saxton's Stewart Edward White: Who Has Brought the East and South and North to Understand the West; A Little Chat About the Man and His Books. BAIRD 2586. [84130].
"White's 'California Trilogy,' which also includes The Gray Dawn, and The Rose Dawn, begins with this novel of the gold rush. The characters are different in each novel and do not continue throughout the trilogy. This volume has as its source some of the better-known gold rush journals and letters. It is interesting in its handling of historical materials. Gold contains a bit less historical detail than the other two novels in the trilogy. San Francisco and the Mother Lode" (see Baird, California Fiction, 2586). Text Concludes with Eugene F. Saxton's Stewart Edward White: Who Has Brought the East and South and North to Understand the West; A Little Chat About the Man and His Books. BAIRD 2586. [84130].