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Tall 8vo. 311, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 21 photo illustrations. Sailcloth publisher's binding by Cardoza as issued, cover illustrations by L.B. Haste (slightly shaken), w/ d.j. cover art of sidewheeler ferry on San Francisco Bay by Haste (minor creasing, couple minor closed tears, slight rubbing), still NF/VG bright copy, inscribed by compiler and editor, Marion Whitfield Leale, September, 1939. First edition, 1 of 1000 copies, and inscribed by the editor & compiler, John Leale's daughter Marion of this remarkable autobiography from the original manuscript of this pioneering steamboat, and ferryboat captain venturing up the Sacramento River among the tule rushes, and crisscrossing San Francisco Bay on ferryboats. Urged on by famed Alexander Robertson, San Francisco bookseller, John under the encouragement of his daughters had written his autobiography, later substantially added and annotated with interpolations by his daughter.