[2], iii, [1], 78, [1] + [1] ad pp. Illus. with 15 wood-engraved plats by Armstrong from drawings by Charles Nahl. 9x5¾, original dark blue pictorial wrappers, expertly rebacked & spine repaired with matching paper. First Edition.

Rare first edition of the companion to Delano's 1853 "Pen Knife Sketches," an amusing and insightful collection of stories which was dedicated by the author to the miners of California, made flesh by Nahl's marvelous drawings. The Zamorano 80 states "Both author and illustrator are characteristically Californian, and few volumes have a truer flavor of the Mother Lode than this result of their combined effort. Cowan p.163; Graff 1043; Greenwood 676; Howes D231; Kurutz 180a; Streeter 2800; Zamorano 80 #29.