CALIFORNIA. From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco. A Study of American Character. by Royce, Josiah

Alfred A Knopf, 1948-01-01. Hardcover. Good. .

Houghton Mifflin, 1886. Houghton Mifflin, 1886, First Edition, 8vo., 513 pages. Frontis has color fold out map of California. Book bound in a red cloth, no dust jacket, top edge gilt. Spine faded with edgewear at top of spine, a little edgewear to edge of map, else good+ condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Houghton, Mifflin., 1886. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Cloth, a near fine copy. Later edition with "1896" at the bottom of the title page. Zamorano Eighty 66: "The author, the distinguished Harvard philosopher, contributed this volume to the well-known series of state histories entitled 'American Commonwealths.' He made use of much source material in the form of both official and private documents and also talked to men who were part of the events he described. His purpose was to show the development of the national character in California in its first ten years of American occupation and to convey to his readers 'the process whereby a new and great community first came to a true consciousness of itself.'" Cowan p. 545. Howes R487.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886. First edition. Small octavo. xv, [1], 513, [1], [10, publisher's ads] pp. plus color folding map of California. Publisher's pebble-grain olive cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, gray endpapers. Contemporary bookplate of the Richmond Library Association and with their stamp on the upper margin of the first page of the book. A beautiful copy of this classic California title.