The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems
San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, Printers, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 349pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Original maroon cloth, with gold lettering and ornamental blind stamping. Cloth at the spine ends slightly frayed; boards exposed at the bottom fore-edge corners of the covers; solid text block. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letter press printer, John Ruyle. Very good. Item #55395
Sketches of Pacific Coast life. Francis Fuller Victor was a pioneer in writing first hand accounts of traveling and living in the American west. Initially uncredited, she is now recognized as having written several volumes for Hubert Howe Bancroft's "History of the Pacific States" series.
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