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HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

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Book Club of California, 1992. First edition thus. Fine.. Red cloth, white title label on spine.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 400 copies printed. (xxvi), 165pp.; facsimile of original cover title precedes title page; 8vo; rust cloth with white spine label printed in black; eight facsimile black & white illustrations throughout the text. Designed by Leda Black at Black Swan Letterpress; typeset by Kathleen Burch at Burch Typografica. In plain white paper jacket with later printed spine label. Back of the jacket with some faint spots of tanning. Shortly after her arrival in San Francisco from Ohio in 1868 the author found employment as a book canvasser for two of San Francisco's leading bookseller-publishers, H. H. Bancroft and Anton Roman. Her territory included San Francisco and more far afield, Gilroy, Sacramento, and Santa Cruz. Originally published in San Francisco in 1874 her book provides a fascinating account of an intrepid and perceptive woman. (from BCC 200th Book, 198) .

San Francisco:: The Book Club of California,, 1992.. One of 400 copies.. original cloth in plain paper wrapper.. Spine label a little foxed, with a few tiny white spots to cloth; otherwise fine.. 8vo,.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1992. Reprint of 1874 original edition. Hardcover. Very good. xxv, [1], 165, [1] pages. Illustrations. Introduction by Madeleine B. Stern. Note by Kathleen Walkup. Mrs. James W. Likins (b. ca. 1825) and her family left Akron, Ohio, in 1868 for a fresh start in California. Once there, her husband's illness forced her to become the family breadwinner. Six years experience as a book agent in California (1874) recounts the family's steam voyage and Panama crossing and Mrs. Likins's initial experience selling subscriptions for engraved portraits of Ulysses S. Grant and his family. She soon expands her sales list, adding more engravings and books such as Mark Twain's Innocents abroad and gives lively accounts of her adventures as a female sales representative in San José, Santa Clara, Gilroy, Stockton, Sacramento, and Calistoga. Kathleen Walkup is Trefethen Professor of Book Art at Mills College, where she teaches typography and… Read More

, xxv, 165 pages, [1], introduction by Madeleine B. Stern, note by Kathleen Walkup, originally published by the Women's Union Book and Job Printing Office in 1874, with illustrated title page and 8 full-page illustrations