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San Francisco: Book Club of California, (1964). First edition, limited to 450 copies designed and printed by Mallette Dean. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn. Original gray cloth and printed paper over boards, quarto, xviii, (99) pp + (11) pages of facsimiles from the original journal. Frontispiece and several colored illustrations in the text. Introduction to "C" by Susanna B. Dakin. A charming account of two teenage girls' camping trip (in high style) to Yosemite and Big Trees in the summer of 1878. Published for the first time from the family papers in the Bancroft Library. "C" was Carrie LeConte herself, "D" her friend Winonah Dibble. In later years Carrie LeConte was noted for her contributions to Brother Cornelius' biography of William Keith. Carrie met and fell in love with Keith when she was 18 and he a married man in his 40's, and she maintained a lifelong, though unrequited relationship with the noted painter. Her "confessions" to Brother Cornelius provided "some life and literary… Read More