KENDALL, Joseph

A Landsman's Voyage to California Being the Account, Compiled from Letters and the Journal of Joseph Kendall of the Voyage "Round the Horn of the Bark Canton ...; ... [title continues] from New York to San Francisco Bay in the Year 1849, with Two Letters from His Wife

San Francisco: Privately Published, 1935. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xiv, 137. Introduction by Wilbur Hall. Frontis. portrait. A roster of the bark Canton passengers and their livelihoods is presented as an appendix. A foldout family tree bound-in at rear lists the descendants of Joseph Kendall. Bound in red half-cloth over marbled boards, gilt lettering stamped on spine. Top edge speckled, fore edge untrimmed. Bookplate on an endpaper, lower corners a bit worn. One of 200 copies printed by Taylor & Taylor. Near Fine. Item #2134

Despite detracting qualities, a particularly fresh copy, with boards and spine bright and vibrant. Scarce. KURUTZ, 373.

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Price: $250.00