San Francisco Past and Present

Book Description

San Francisco: The Adobe Press, 1935 One of 200 copies privately printed for Charles R. Boden by the Grabhorn Press. Foreword by Harry Leon Wilson. Thin octavo. viii, 24pp. Engraved frontis plate. Printed in blue and black. Handset Lutetia type. Blue boards, blue labels printed and decorated in gold on spine and front cover. Spine slightly faded, else a very fine copy. The full-page frontispiece, "San Francisco in 1849," is from a proof pulled from the original plate engraved by W. L. Ormsby about 1870 after the painting by G.W. Casilear. [Grabhorn: 236]..

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