Ten Years in Nevada: or, Life on the Pacific Coast.

Buffalo: Baker, Jones & Co., Printers and Binders, 1880. First edition. 8vo, 9¼ inches. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, gilt floral medallion to upper board, decorative blind-stamped border to boards. Marbled edges. 343 pp. Frontispiece portrait and two additional portraits.

Condition: Very Good. Cloth scuffed and faded, with fraying along edges, spine tips, and corners; spine cocked; boards cupped. Interior with occasional foxing, evidence of one pressed botanical, and scattered thumbprints and soiling; text generally clean and unmarked. Text block tight; hinges secure.

⁂ A rare firsthand memoir of a woman's decade in post-Civil War Virginia City, offering candid observations of Nevada mining society, and daily life on the Pacific Coast. 

Howes I: M-417; Paher: 1249