The Splendid Idle Forties.
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The Splendid Idle Forties. Six stories of Spanish California. Preface by Oscar Lewis.

Publication details: Kentfield, CA: The Allen Press,1960,

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The author's stories of her home-state were originally published in 1902; this is a beautiful edition.

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ONE OF 150 COPIES printed on all-rag Rives paper, the title-page design, large initials at the head of each story and further decorations all engraved by Mallette Dean and hand-coloured by him, shoulder notes and page numbers printed in orange, pp. 110, folio, original grey and ochre patterned cloth binding, backstrip with printed label and just a hint of fading, slight mustiness, edges untrimmed, bookplate to front pastedown, very good

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