San Francisco in the Seventies: The City as Viewed by a Mexican Political Exile [Signed and Inscribed by John Henry Nash to Author Joy Lichtenstein]

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1938. Hardcover. Limited edition of 650 copies; 11 x 8 1/4"; pp. 90; cloth-backed marbled boards; paper spine label; some rubbing along edges and corners of boards; very minor foxing to margin of first and last several pages; illustrated with portrait frontis, two plates, and head pieces at beginning of chapters (the latter by artist William F. Rauschnabel); bookplate to front board verso; lacking DJ; overall very good condition.The book reveals the impression and observations of California through the eyes of a Mexican politician in exile. The publisher, Canadian-born John Henry Nash, renowned for producing books, pamphlets, and broadsides of exceptional technical precision and beauty, has signed and inscribed the book to Joy Lichtenstein - author of the first full-length novel about the University of California, which describes campus life at UC Berkeley in the late 1890s - "For The Blue and Gold: A Tale of Life At The University of California."