RALSTON'S RING: California Plunders the Comstock Lode. by Lyman, George…

RALSTON'S RING: California Plunders the Comstock Lode.

Edition: First edition.

New York: Scribner's, 1937. Hardcover first edition - The story of the San Francisco financiers and the Comstock Lode - and the story of William Chapman Ralston, founder of the Bank of California and the creator of a "financial empire whose tentacles spread out across this country and into the stock markets of Europe", but only four years later there was the inevitable,tragic crash. Illustrations, notes. 368 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

Condition: Very good in red cloth binding (spine slightly faded).

Book ID: 2693
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