Leonis or The Lion's Brood

Calabasas, California: Leonis Adobe Assn, 1993. NEW in near PERFECT CONDITION. The book has just a tiny bit of very mild shelfwear (like you sometimes find in any new book store). NO chips, tears, creases or fading. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Bright, shiny, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. This 1993 edition was edited and with end notes by Gerry Keesey Hoppe. Illustrated with map and several vintage photos/portraits. Includes a bibliography. Horace Bell also wrote REMINISCENCES OF A RANGER, OR EARLY TIMES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, which according to Howes B325 is "the most readable historical narrative of early southern California." First Edition Thus with "First Printing" so stated. At the foot of the title page: "From an unpublished manuscript by Horace Bell in the Early 1900s -- the original can be found in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California." Chapters 4, 5, and 6 appeared in the Los Angeles Graphic on April 10, 17 and 24, 1909. Purple floral endpapers. Bound in the original red cloth, handsomely decorated in black and shiny gold. From the historical record: "Horace Bell was born in Indiana on December 11, 1830. He was educated in Kentucky and came to Placerville, California in August 1850, during the California Gold Rush spending two years there with little success. He came to Los Angeles in 1852 to visit an uncle Alexander Bell who had settled there in 1842, married a Californio woman, becoming wealthy as a trader and influential in politics. Bell became a founding member of the Los Angles Rangers a miilitia company that pursued outlaws in the most violent, lawless county in Southern California. In 1856, he left California to join in the Walkers Filibuster into Nicaragua becoming a Major in Walkers army. In 1859 he joined Benito Juárez's Army in Mexico during the Reform War. He returned to Indiana to join as a scout in the Union Army during the American Civil War. In 1866, married and with two children, he returned to Los Angeles. He became a lawyer and journalist and as an investor in city land he became properous. From 1882 to 1888 he owned and edited The Porcupine a newspaper he created to fight municipal corruption. As a lawyer and as an editor he defended the Californios and the poor. In 1883, the Police Chief of Los Angeles attempted to shoot him, before he was overpowered by Bell's son. After his wife died in 1899 he married a wealthy widow in 1909. He died in June 29, 1919, and was buried in Rosedale.". First Printing (so stated). Hardcover. New/No dust jacket. 8vo. xx, 282pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.