A sojourn in California by the King's Orphan: the travels and sketches of G. M. Waseurtz af Sandels, a Swedish gentleman who visited California in 1842-1843, edited with an introduction by Helen Putnam Van Sicklen
San Francisco: printed at the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California in arrangement with The Society of California Pioneers, December, 1945. Hardcover. xii, 85p., 9.5x13 inches, color frontis, rubricated title page, introduction with rubricated intitial, indexes, illustrated with plates from original maps and drawings, mild off-setting to endpapers with odd 'U' - shaped rust-mark on front pastedown otherwise a very good first edition limited to 300 copies bound in decorative boards and white quarter-cloth backing, paper title label on spine, untrimmed edges. Original prospectus and 1956 newspaper clipping about Robert Grabhorn (with photo) laid-in. Publication no. 63.
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