California Adventure

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1947 Maroon cloth spine covering over yellow/gray patterned cloth, with gilt spine lettering. Limited Edition of 250 copies. 96 pages. Black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Rosales is a reproduction of the lithographed portrait of the author taken from the first printing of the Spanish edition, duotone decoration on title and seven chapter headings in black and tan by Albert J. Camille, printer's device on the colophon in tan. Vicente Perez Rosales was a Chilean politician, traveler, merchant, miner and diplomat who organized the colonization by Germans and Chileans of the Llanquihue area in Chile. This is the first English translation of a portion of a Chilean work. Only the part dealing with the author's visit to San Francisco and the Mother Lode in 1849 has been used. An Interesting Latin-American view of the Gold Rush. Included in the Exhibition of Western Books of the Rounce and Coffin Club. [ Magee, The Hundredth Book, No. 66]. VG+ condition

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