California Sketches. New Series.
Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1883. First Thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pp. Frontis. portrait with tissue guard. Bound in elaborate blindstamped green cloth. Scattered, heavy foxing to preliminaries, some soiling to several pages. Dust soiling to top edge. Contemporary owner name in pencil on front pastedown, dated 1883. Professionally conserved at hinges. Good+. Item #1604
This copy with solid shelf appeal. Beginning in the late 1860s, Fitzgerald served as Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of California and laid the foundation for what would be come the University of California at Berkeley. See Cowan, p. 214: "Several editions followed with additions."
Price: $50.00