Search Results: The California Text-Book by Jose De Urcullu

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

San Francisco: Marvin & Hitchcock, 1852. First edition of the earliest school book published in California. Twelvemo. [2], [v]-viii, 258 pp. Publisher's quarter blind-tooled red roan over vertically-ribbed brown-purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. Spine bumped and chipped with small ink smudge. Light scattered foxing throughout (mostly on first and last few leaves). Some small, light waterstaining to the upper margin of the first half. Overall, a very good copy of this fragile and rare item. "This is believed to be the first educational work published in California after American rule" (Cowan). This text-book is preceded by two exceedingly rare Mexican-era school books in Spanish (and one of those is a Zamorano imprint). It is also significant for the fact that it was sold by one of the earliest California booksellers, Marvin & Hitchcock, Booksellers, with their ticket on the upper front pastedown. Published in the still very young city of San Francisco, it is only appropriate that the… Read More