Romualdo Pacheco, a California in Two Eras

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 500 copies printed by Patrick Reagh. 209pp. Frontis portrait, illustrations from photographs. Brown cloth, embossed portrait on front cover, paper spine label. Spine slightly faded. A very fine copy. Includes valuable information about the life of Pacheco taken from unpublished collections and old newspapers, much of it translated from Spanish. Also includes the first thorough investigation of California state documents relating to his career. Pacheco was the first and only Hispanic governor of the State of California, the first California Hispanic elected to Congress, and the first to be named a diplomat..