Resultados da Pesquisa: yo semite 1878 adventures of n por leconte carrie e

Pages 98 pp. + plates.4to. Two piece binding, cloth spine with paper over boards. Paper spine label. Limited edition of 450 copies. Designed and printed by Mallette Dean. Illustrated. Publisher’s prospectus laid in. Title page misprinted with date MCMXLIV, as is prospectus. Fine condition in plain paper dust jacket with faded spine.

San Francisco: Book Club of California. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1964. One of 450. Hardcover. Introduction to "C" by Susanna B. Dakin. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1964. 11" x 7.75". xviii,98[4]pp. Tan cloth back & pine-needle decorated green paper boards, very good plus condition (lower corners rubbed); green dj good plus (few short tears, brief areas of light soil, 4-inch tear to rear cover, spine faded; archival tape repairs to tears). Frontispiece photo-portrait of Carrie as a young woman, 11 full-page lithographed journal pages actual size, and 8 (of more than 60 drawings) are photo-engravings and colored with blocks cut by the printer. One of 450, with Prospectus laid in.; 11 x 7.75 inches; 102 pages .

San Francisco: Book Club of California, (1964). First edition, limited to 450 copies designed and printed by Mallette Dean. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn. Original gray cloth and printed paper over boards, quarto, xviii, (99) pp + (11) pages of facsimiles from the original journal. Frontispiece and several colored illustrations in the text. Introduction to "C" by Susanna B. Dakin. A charming account of two teenage girls' camping trip (in high style) to Yosemite and Big Trees in the summer of 1878. Published for the first time from the family papers in the Bancroft Library. "C" was Carrie LeConte herself, "D" her friend Winonah Dibble. In later years Carrie LeConte was noted for her contributions to Brother Cornelius' biography of William Keith. Carrie met and fell in love with Keith when she was 18 and he a married man in his 40's, and she maintained a lifelong, though unrequited relationship with the noted painter. Her "confessions" to Brother Cornelius provided "some life and literary… Ler mais