ATHERTON, Gertrude. The Splendid Idle Forties.
Item #7640
389 pp.; decorated red cloth, gold-stamped title & spine; frontis. & illustrations reproducing Harrison Fisher. New York: Macmillan, 1902. First Edition. Cowan, p. 23; Powell, California Classics, pp. 103-114; Zamorano 80, 1: "Perhaps the best known collection of stories of that romantic period of California history when the incoming Americans were first intermingling with the Californians of rancho and presidio." Lacks front free endpaper else very good to near fine. |
