(CALIFORNIA) Buffum Edward Gould Six Months in the Gold Mine

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(CALIFORNIA.) Buffum, Edward Gould. Six Months in the Gold Mines. 5-172 pages plus [44] pages of publisher's ads. 12mo, publisher's cloth, minor wear; internally clean; early owners' signatures on front endpapers and title page, later bookplate on front pastedown. Philadelphia, 1850

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first edition. "Authoritative source on the early period of the gold discoveries by a resident of California at the time"--Howes B943 ("aa"). "One of the earliest authentic personal accounts oft he California diggings"--Wheat, Books of the Gold Rush 28. Cowan 1933, page 83; Graff 472; Sabin 9067.