by Victor M. Berthold, Ph.D.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932.

First edition, first printing; Limited edition.

Limited to 550 copies of which 500 are for sale.

1932 date in Roman numerals to the title page.

This quality first edition production has thick stock paper, a sewn sturdy linen binding, fine clear type, and a protective slipcase.

Two maps and three illustrations on coated stock plates.

A complete account and detailed history of the SS California paddle-wheel steamship, including ship logs, the mail rules and routes, cargoes, captain's letters, captain's journals, portions of the Cosby manuscript, passenger names and lists, a mutiny, problems in Southern American ports, and the wreck and sinking of the ship in 1895.

Former owner's ship illustrated bookplate to the inside front cover, end-papers age-toning as usual, faint soil spots to the covers, else about near fine in deep-blue polished linen with black titles and decorations to a tan spine label; in an about good only dark-blue hard-card slip-case with rubbed-wear and darkening at the seams and edges, chipping to the bottom panel at the opening, surface nicks to the top panel and around the printed tan title label.

Small quarto; 106 pages; appendix.

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