Cornelius Cole: California Pioneer and United States Senator A Study in Personality and Achievements Bearing Upon the Growth of a Commonwealth by Phillips, Catherine Coffin - 1929

San Francisco: John Henry Nash. Near Fine. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Full marbled cloth, leather label to the spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated. Erratum slip at the end. An excellent copy, nearly fine. Completely unmarked and very tight. The later slipcase has some light wear. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 379 pages .

John Henry Nash, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/No dustjacket as issued. A Study in Personality and Achievements Bearing Upon the Growth of a Commonwealth. Bound in marbled linen and housed in a matching slipcase. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Includes several black and white plates and two foldout letters. Small ripples along top edge of both front and end matter. Text and images unmarked. The slipcase is in good condition with light edge wear and two 1" cracks along open end. 4to. 379pp.

San Francico, California: John Henry Nash, 1929. Hardcover. VG/VG (light wear to boards & corners. spine lightly sunned w/ plate rubbed. slipcase has general wear w/ sunning/fading). full marbled boards w/ blue & gilt spine plate. 379 pgs w/ bw plates. full marbled slipcase. Pages remain bright. Pages rough cut with many unopened throughout. Remains a handsome edition.

San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1929. First Edition. 379pp. Quarto [27 cm] Marbled boards with a leather gilt stamped label on the backstrip. Very good. Complete with fold-out and plates. This edition was limited to 250 copies. John Henry Nash (1871-1947) was a renowned fine printer who spent the majority of his career in the San Francisco area, founding the Twentieth Century Press with Bruce Brough, which was renamed Tomoye Press when Paul Elder was made a partner. Later Nash founded his own eponymous printing venture, this is where he cemented legacy as one of the great American printers. Later in his life he would teach printing and typography at the University of Oregon.

San Francisco:: John Henry Nash,, 1929.. First edition; one of 250 copies.. original marbled cloth in marbled slipcase.. Pencilled call number on front free endpaper (no other library markings except for the bookplate); spine very slightly faded with some very light use to slipcase. . Large 8vo,. 29 plates (3 folding). Howes P 308; Rocq 10969. Presented by the author to the Library of Knox College, with her inscription on the pastedown, along with the library's bookplate.

San Francisco, California: John Henry Nash, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A Study in Personality and Achievements Bearing Upon the Growth of a Commonwealth. Frontispiece illustration, with 27 plates, two folding, and one folding genealogical chart. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1929. First edition. Laudatory biography of Cornelius Cole (1822-1924), a California pioneer who served a single term in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican representing California from 1863 to 1865, and another term in the United States Senate from 1867 to 1873. When he died in 1924 at age 102 he was the oldest former U.S. Senator in American history, and has yet to be surpassed. Errata slip tipped-in at the rear. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Phillips on a prefatory blank leaf. From the James S. Copley Library, with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown. Full marbled cloth binding, with a gilt-stamped leather spine… Read More