DELANO, ALONZO. Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings; being Scenes and Adventures of an Overland Journey to California. Auburn and Buffalo: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854. Engraved frontispiece and 3 plates. 8vo, original brown cloth, covers decoratively stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered, a little wear to extremities, some minor fading; small internal hole on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Delano(?) on front free endpaper (in pencil; hole on endpaper affects first initial of recipient's name). Sabin 19348; Wagner-Camp 238; Graff 1042; Howes D230 ("One of the best 'forty niner' narratives.").