Carroll, Mary Bowden. Ten Years In Paradise. Leaves from a Society Reporter's Note-Book.
Item #7927
212 pp.; incl. indexed Social Directory; 8vo; original decorative gray cloth; 28 full page black & white photographic plates, including views, scenes, residences, buildings, etc. [San Jose]: [Press of Popp & Hogan], [1903]. First Edition. Cowan II, p. 107. Society from the Forties to the Ninties; Prominent Clubs; What Santa Clara Offers to the Capitalist; Bayard Taylor's Dream Realized. Taylor had called the Santa Clara Valley "one of the three most beautiful valleys in the world." Very light soil & wear to cover; strip of fading to cloth top back cover; offset browning to endpapers; hinges just cracked, but very firm. Very good condition. |
