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ATHERTON, Gertrude The splendid idle forties. Stories of old California. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902

FIRST EDITION., 8vo., viii, [ii], 389 pp.

Frontispiece plus 7 full-page illustrations. Original publisher's decorated red cloth. An excellent copy, bottom edges uncut, signed by the author on the title page., First edition. Perhaps the best known collection of stories of that romantic period of California history when the incoming Americans were first intermingling with the Californians of rancho and presidio.

$US500

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