Glimpses of Three Coasts

Boston, Massachusetts: Roberts Brothers , 1887. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; neither highlighting nor underlining. Short octavo in format, bound in moderately rubbed and soiled gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed, front cover lettered in red; floral pastedowns and endpapers quite nice and intact fully. Ex- Pacific Union Club library (Shelf 276, Book 8572) with their bookplate at front pastedown; presentation inscription to the Pacific Union Club Library by Mr. W.H. Crocker (13 January 1861 – 25 September 1937), an American banker, the president of Crocker National Bank and a prominent member of the Republican Party. Small clipping from book catalog entry affixed to front pastedown throwing offset to front endpaper. Helen Jackson (Maria Fiske) was born in 1830 and lived 55 years, reared in her native Amherst, Massachusetts, and was born in the same year as her dear friend Emily Dickinson, who became the model for her anonymously penned novel Mercy Philbrick's Choice's heroine. She married E.B. Hunt in 1852 and then began to write under the name "H.H." Once widowed, she later remarried,to Will S. Jackson of Colorado, in 1875. She is most famous for Ramona, about the plight of Native Americans. This work begins with several chapters about California and Oregon and then discourses upon Scotland, England, Norway, Denmark and finally Germany. 418 [2] pp. including publisher's ads.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.