Happier for His Presence. San Francisco and Robert Louis Stevenson

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1949 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 178pp. Octavo. 8½x5¼ inches. Pp. xviii, [5], 178. Plates and illustrations; bibliography, index. Tan cloth lettered in brown on spine. A fine copy. Lacking 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..