Ex-Pacific Union Club Library with their bookplate over a former owner's bookplate on front pastedown; faint library handstamp on front endpaper; small call numbers on copyright, two lines in pencil. No other library markings, but, as was their wont, old newspaper clippings, usually obituaries or other relevant articles, here the 1930 obits of the author - John F. Davis. Offset browning from the clippings, which nonetheless are informative. ; Brown cloth back and brown paper over boards, spine and front cover lettered in gilt; tissue frontis reproducing Wm. Keith painting of The Discovery of San Francisco. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 80 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: California Romantic and Recourceful. A Plea for the Collection, Preservation and Diffusion of Information Relating to Pacific Coast History.
Publisher: A. M. Robertson, San Francisco
Publication Date: 1914
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Good+

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In addition to the home office, I have two spaces at Booktown Books in Grass Valley, a co-op of some 8 booksellers. Also, I remain connected with my old bookstall now run by 34 Trinity Arts & News in downtown San Francisco at 34 Trinity Place near Montgomery between Bush & Sutter Streets.

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G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
CA, U.S.A.

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