Old Californian Days
Chicago: Beldford-Clarke, 1889. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. Small octavo. 227pp.Frontispiece illustration; tissue guard; numerous illustrations througout. Grey cloth with glit lettering; decorative endpapers. Book is in good condition (wear to extremities; spine, and less so cover, darkened; ffep detached but laid in; rear hinge cracked). Item #5702
Divided into three periods in California history: the old time of the Missions, part of the scheme of Spanish conquest; the American romance of the Argonauts, one of the most thrilling in history; and the Boom period. Cowan: "Chiefly historical, concerning Indian and mission life of the days of the Padres." (Cowan, p. 220; Rocq 16395).
Price: $40.00