Happier for His Presence. San Francisco and Robert Louis Stevenson

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1949 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Presentation inscription, signed by the author: "For Sarah Hammond Kelly, Second National Vice-President, League of American Pen Women, and fellow member of the Sonoma County Branch. With the best wishes of the author. Anne Roller Issler. June 25, 1949." Octavo. 8½x5¼ inches. Pp. xviii, [5], 178. Plates and illustrations; bibliography, index. Tan cloth lettered in brown on spine. Slight rubbing to outer joints. A fine, clean copy with slightly rubbed and worn pictorial dust jacket. Becoming somewhat scarce. A revealing biography based upon original source material. The author comes up with some new psychological sidelights on the man and the people who surrounded him. Particularly interesting are several letters from Fanny's husband that throw new light on Sam Osbourne's character. Osbourne later remarried and shortly after disappeared..