From Kapuvar to California in 1893. Travel Letters of...

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1979 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies printed by Don Greame Kelley & Susan Acker at The Feathered Serpent Press. Translated and edited by Henry Miller Madden. 73pp. Nine illustrations from photographs. Cloth-backed decorated boards, gilt. Unobtrusive spot to front cover, else a very fine copy. Baron von Berg, a wealthy Hungarian leaseholder, accompanied by his teenage daughter and her English companion, toured the United States and Canada for three months during the year of the Columbian Exposition. After his return to Kapuvar he published his letters which graphically describe the America he had seen. The seven letters written from San Francisco, Monterey, Yosemite, Fresno, and Los Angeles are here translated into English..