Yo Semite, 1878; Adventures of N and C. Journal and Drawings by Carrie E LeConte. by LE CONTE, Carrie - 1964

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1964. First edition. One of 450 copies designed and printed by Mallette Dean. Illustrated and with twelve pages of Carries journal printed in facsimile. Publisher's quarter tan linen over patterned boards, printed paper spine label, plaind dust jacket. An excellent copy.Carrie Le Conte was the daughter of Jospeh Le Conte and accompanied him and his students on their famous trip to the Yosemite in 1878. Carrie kept her own journal and it is from this that this book was formed (the journals themselves are at the Bancroft Library). As opposed to her father's famous memoir of this trip ('Ramblings in the High Sierra'), Carrie Le Conte's memoirs are those of Yosemite as seen through the eyes of a teenage girl. Included are three copies of the prospectus and a postcard invitation to see the exhibition of the Yosemite material of Francis Farquhar being put on by the Book Club to commemorate the book's publicationLaid in is an original portrait studio photograph of Carrie Le Conte (imprint of 'Webster, Oakland'). It is not dated but she appears to be very young indeed.