THE SPLENDID IDLE FORTIES: STORIES OF OLD CALIFORNIA

by Gertrude Atherton, Franklin

$275 · Offered by L. W. Currey

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, n.d. 1922? . Octavo, pp. 389, original pictorial red cloth stamped in gold. Later edition. A revised and enlarged edition of BEFORE THE GRINGO CAME 1894 . Atherton's stories of love and death, bull and bear fights, moonlight meriendas, horse races and fancy dress balls, are increasingly meaningful and precious. They are truly classics of Californiana. - Lawrence Clark

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