Leaf-Shadows and Rose Drift. Being Little Songs from a Los Angeles Garden

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1911. First Edition. First printing. 16mo. Green publisher's cloth with gilt spine titles; front cover titled and ornamented in black; top edge gilt; xii,(1)-118pp. A Fine copy, tight, clean and unmarked.

A collection of poems inspired by the author's California gardens. Percival (1868-1945), now little-remembered, was well-known in her lifetime as a connoisseur of art and antiques, a garden designer, bibliophile and author. This collection of unconventional, lush, almost sybaritic poems has long been one of those scarce and sought-after "secret" books known mostly to collectors of California literature. This a very pretty copy.