The Builders of San Francisco and Some of Their Early Homes [cover title].

San Francisco: Colonial Dames of America in California, 1935 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 9x6 inches. Pp. [2], 28. Frontis, 8 photographic illustrations. Notes, bibliography. Light brown wrappers printed in black. A few tiny but significant marginal pencil notations, minor vertical wrinkle to front cover. A fine copy. First edition. Very scarce. A well-researched and insightful, perhaps unique, historical narrative of the progression of settlement and growth of San Francisco from the "Mythical Cave Dwellers, Indian Huts, First Anglo-Saxon Shelter, First Structure at Yerba Buena; and on, and on discussing types of dwellings (Corrugated Iron Houses), where homes were built, by whom and why, etc. Photographs include South Park, the Humphrey and Stanyon Residences (1852), the Parrott Building, etc. [Rocq: 12732]. .