TAKE YOUR BIBLE IN ONE HAND: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM HENRY THOMES.. by Stewart, George R - 1939

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. hardcover, 1/750 copies, 67 pages. Darkening to the edges of the front and rear covers, some wear to the corners, still a very good copy with clean text and tight binding. Illustrated paper covered boards, black cloth backed spine. No dust jacket as issued but with custom mylar cover.

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Very Good Plus/Custom Clear Mylar. 70 pages including colophon. Edition limited to 750 un-numbered copies. Colt Press printer's device and marginal woodcut vignettes by Mallette Dean. 8 1/2" x 11 1/2". Black cloth-backed boards with paper spine label and paper printer's device affixed to front cover. A biographical sketch of New Englander/Argonaut William Henry Thomas, containing material on early Monterey and San Francisco. By the author of "Ordeal By Hunger". Roth,"The Colt Springs High" pgs 63-4. Some toning of the covers (which seems customary for this title) and slight edgewear; overall, Very Good Plus or better, and now in a cutom clear mylar jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes via media mail to any United States address.

San Francisco, The Colt Press, 1939., 1939. First edition. 4to. Title page and 22 b/w woodcut illustrations in the text. Original 1/2 blue cloth with printed paper label on the spine over gray boards with printed paper illustrated label on the front cover (snag at head of spine). Very good. 67 pages. No signatures or bookplates. One of 750 copies issued from The Colt Press by Jane Swinerton, William Roth & Jane Grabhorn, San Francisco, June 1939. Provenance: from the estate of Rosario Curletti.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1939.. One of 750 copies bound in quarter black cloth with paper over boards. Slight soiling and rubbing to corners, former owner's signature on front free end paper, otherwise very good.

1939. 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, Lewey and I, The Bushrangers, A Gold Hunter's Adventures, Etc. San Francisco: Colt Press, 1939. 4to. 67pp. Illus. Orig. cloth-backed boards with spine and cover labels. Boards a bit faded, else fine. Limited to 750 copies. Prospectus laid in.

The Colt Press, 1939. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Signed by the author. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. Limited to 750cc. Covers shelfworn and faded along edges.

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1939. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Very Good. 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" 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.

San Francisco: The Colt Press - Jane Grabhorn, 1939. First Edition. Very Good. Mallette Dean. Signed by Jane Grabhorn, limited to 750 copies, with Prospectus, [11.5x8.5in]; 67 pp., [1] colophon; Light blue paper covers with black cloth backstrip, black lettering on spine label and Colt Press illustration by Mallette Dean on black and gray label on front, top edge trimmed and all others untrimmed, title page in black and red lettering with illustration, illustrations in margins throughout, tipped in four page red and black prospectus; Some shelf wear to covers, edges and corners, age toned edges, minor soiling to covers, faint remains of adhesive stamp on front, spine label darken, prospectus folded for mailing with canceled stamp and hand addressed to "Mr. Frank Schwabacher" at the famed Russ Building in San Francisco. William Henry Thomes (1824-1895) was an adventurer, author and publisher. This is a short book from his works and the Bancroft Library archives relating to two trips to California.… Read More