Rincon Hill and South Park. San Francisco's Early Fashionable Neighborhood
first edition
1988 · Sausalito
by Shumate, Albert
Sausalito: Windgate Press, 1988 First edition, first printing (scarce thus). Foreword by Richard Dillon. 4to. 124pp. Illustrated throughout with old photos. Maps, index. Blue cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A detailed look, with over 100 rare photographs, at San Francisco's early fashionable residential district, chronicling the period from the gold rush to the 1906 earthquake. Includes a discussion of the architecture of Rincon Hill by Dr. Joseph A. Baird, Jr. and an appendix of over 700 names and occupations of early residents of Rincon Hill. An important historical reference. Laid in is Albert Shumate's little keepsake, The Gardens of Rincon Hill, printed by the Arion Press in an edition of 500 copies.. (Inventory #: 8284)