The Gray Dawn

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Fogarty, Thomas. Reprint. Ink stamp and ink name on frontispiece recto. 1915 Hard Cover. 395 pp. Color frontispiece and three color plates by Thomas Fogarty. "The novel begins: On the verandah of the Bella Union Hotel, San Francisco, a man sat enjoying his morning pipe. The Bella Union overlooked the Plaza of that day, a dusty, unkempt, open space, later to be swept and graded and dignified into Portsmouth Square. The man was at the younger fringe of middle life. He was dressed neatly and carefully in the fashionable costume of the time, which was the year of grace 1852. As to countenance, he was square and solid; as to physique, he was the same; as to expression, he inclined toward the quietly humorous; in general he would strike the observer as deliberately, philosophically competent.