C.C. Goodwin
The Comstock Club
Salt Lake City, Utah: Tribune Job Printing Company, 1891. 9 inches, octavo. Blue cloth, gilt titles to front board and spine, black Greek-key border to boards. Patterned endpapers. 312 pp. (of 314 pp.). 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.
Fair. Lacking final leaf, p. 313/314. Spine tips, corners, and edges rubbed with light fading; cloth lightly soiled. Evidence of removed bookplate with damage 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.
Paher 711
