The Comstock Club

Salt Lake City, Utah: Tribune Job Printing Company, 1891. First edition. 8vo, 9 x 6¼ inches. Blue cloth, gilt titles to front board and spine, black Greek-key border to boards. Patterned endpapers. 312 pp. (of 314 pp.)

Condition: Fair. Lacking final leaf, p. 313/314. Spine tips, corners, and edges rubbed with light fading; cloth lightly soiled. Evidence of removed bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise interior clean and unmarked. Binding secure and square; no cracked hinges or loose pages.

⁂ A fictional account of miners on the Comstock Lode, drawn from Goodwin's years as editor of the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.

Bibliographic note: Two distinct settings of this title are recorded. Wright III 2205 (288pp., illustrated) and Paher 711 (314pp., unillustrated) conform to two separate editions; the present copy follows Paher. Priority not established. The two settings are further distinguished by binding design — Greek key (314pp.) and trellis (288pp.). Additionally, two title page states are known within the Greek-key setting: a horseshoe ornament (present copy) and a foliate ornament.