LEWIS, SEA ROUTES TO THE GOLD FIELDS, 1949, First Edition, Signed, California Gold Rush, Maritime History

Oscar Lewis; Sea Routes to the Gold Fields: The Migration by Water to California in 1849-1852; New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949; octavo; blue publisher’s cloth with gilt spine lettering and device, yellow top edge; with pictorial dust jacket. Stated first edition. Signed by the author in green ink on the front flyleaf.

Sound used copy; dust jacket in fragments with extensive tears, chipping, and paper loss along folds and edges; light rubbing to cloth corners and spine ends; pencil notations to front flyleaf.