The California of the Padres: Or, Footprints of Ancient Communism

by Elizabeth Hughes

$50 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

San Francisco: I.N. Choynski, 1875. 8vo 4 , 41 pp. Original pale blue printed wrappers, a little worn but good. § First edition, Jennie Crocker Henderson's copy JCH 7626 at front . One of the most interesting examples of the tendency to endow Spanish California with the attributes of a lost utopia Starr, Americans and the California Dream, p. 395 . Eberstadt 132, 138: Early history of the missions and mission life and thought in the seventies. Howell

• Binding: Wrappers

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