(#157030) Seeking the elephant, 1849. James Mason Hutchings' journal of his overland trek to California, including his voyage to America, 1848 and letters from the Mother Lode. Edited and Introduced by Shirley Sargent. JAMES MASON HUTCHINGS.

Seeking the elephant, 1849. James Mason Hutchings' journal of his overland trek to California, including his voyage to America, 1848 and letters from the Mother Lode. Edited and Introduced by Shirley Sargent. Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1980. Octavo, pp. [1-11] 12-209 [210: colophon] [note: limitation leaf and frontispiece are inserts], illustrations, quarter leather and cloth, marbled endpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Number 6 of 40 numbered copies. Originally issued in an edition of 750 trade copies in 1980, this is one of 40 sets of sheets, specially bound in quarter leather, and issued as one of Clark's "special collector's editions" in May 1999 at a list price of $225.00. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#157030).

Printing identification statement for this book:
"This special edition of / Seeking the Elephant, 1849: / James M. Hutchings' Overland Journal / has been produced in a limited, / specially bound edition of forty copies / of which this is number / [number]" on limitation leaf.