The Silverado Squatters
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1996. Michael Kenna (photography). Limited Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pp. xvi, [2], 107. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Illustrated throughout with Michael Kenna's duo-tone photography. Half-bound in brick-red cloth over natural cork boards, printed title label on spine. Of and edition limited to 250 numbered copies, this is hand-numbered copy 43. Signed by Michael Kenna at the colophon. Fine. Item #12122
A refined publication from the Arion Press, a leading practitioner of fine press publishing, and the natural heir to San Francisco's exemplary fine printing tradition. First published in the UK, 1883, the Scottish writer's memoir of a two-month honeymoon with Fanny Vandergrift at an abandoned mine in Napa Valley. The cork boards are a clever allusion to the chapter Stevenson devotes to Napa wine.
Price: $450.00