first edition Hardcover
1877 · San Francisco
by Victor, Mrs. Frances Fuller
San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, Printers, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 349pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Original maroon cloth, with gold lettering and ornamental blind stamping. Cloth at the spine ends slightly frayed; boards exposed at the bottom fore-edge corners of the covers; solid text block. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letter press printer, John Ruyle. Sketches of Pacific Coast life. Francis Fuller Victor was a pioneer in writing first hand accounts of traveling and living in the American west. Initially uncredited, she is now recognized as having written several volumes for Hubert Howe Bancroft's "History of the Pacific States" series. (Inventory #: 55395)