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A YEAR OF AMERICAN TRAVEL NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE BY JESSIE BENTON FRÉMONT VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA IN 1848 : IMPRESSIONS OF PANAMA 1960
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A YEAR | OF AMERICAN | TRAVEL | NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL
EXPERIENCE | BY JESSIE BENTON FRÉMONT | VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA
IN 1848 : IMPRESSIONS OF PANAMA, | SAN FRANCISCO,
MONTEREY, SAN JOSÉ, ETC. AND A LETTER | FROM
COLONEL JOHN CHARLES FRÉMONT, DESCRIBING HIS | EXPEDITION
TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS MADE DURING THE |
WINTER OF 1848–49. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PATRICE |
MANAHAN, AND ENGRAVINGS BY ERNEST FREED. | [decoration]
| SAN FRANCISCO | THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA | 1960
10 ½ × 7 1⁄8. 138 pp.—blank (i–ii), half-title (iii), blank (iv), title (v), blank (vi),
introduction vii–xi (xii), contents (xiii), blank (xiv), quotation (xv), blank (xvi),
text 1–121, colophon (122).
Title in black and orange. Thirteen linoleum cuts and copperplates. Type Perpetua
and Felicity monotype. Paper machine made. Bound in orange and beige
decorated boards with orange cloth back, beige label printed in orange on back.
450 copies printed at the Plantin Press (Saul and Lillian Marks). Price $12.50.
Jesse Frémont turned to writing in the 1870s primarily from financial necessity.
She became a prolific and popular author with perhaps seventy publications to
her credit. This memoir was originally published in 1878 in an anthology of prose
and poetry in the Harper’s Half-Hour series. The abstractionist illustrations in the
Club’s edition proved to be controversial, some members expressing a preference
for more representational depictions. The bookmaking enjoyed wide approval.
A YEAR OF AMERICAN TRAVEL NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE BY JESSIE BENTON FRÉMONT VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA IN 1848 : IMPRESSIONS OF PANAMA 1960
→ 104 →
A YEAR | OF AMERICAN | TRAVEL | NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL
EXPERIENCE | BY JESSIE BENTON FRÉMONT | VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA
IN 1848 : IMPRESSIONS OF PANAMA, | SAN FRANCISCO,
MONTEREY, SAN JOSÉ, ETC. AND A LETTER | FROM
COLONEL JOHN CHARLES FRÉMONT, DESCRIBING HIS | EXPEDITION
TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS MADE DURING THE |
WINTER OF 1848–49. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PATRICE |
MANAHAN, AND ENGRAVINGS BY ERNEST FREED. | [decoration]
| SAN FRANCISCO | THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA | 1960
10 ½ × 7 1⁄8. 138 pp.—blank (i–ii), half-title (iii), blank (iv), title (v), blank (vi),
introduction vii–xi (xii), contents (xiii), blank (xiv), quotation (xv), blank (xvi),
text 1–121, colophon (122).
Title in black and orange. Thirteen linoleum cuts and copperplates. Type Perpetua
and Felicity monotype. Paper machine made. Bound in orange and beige
decorated boards with orange cloth back, beige label printed in orange on back.
450 copies printed at the Plantin Press (Saul and Lillian Marks). Price $12.50.
Jesse Frémont turned to writing in the 1870s primarily from financial necessity.
She became a prolific and popular author with perhaps seventy publications to
her credit. This memoir was originally published in 1878 in an anthology of prose
and poetry in the Harper’s Half-Hour series. The abstractionist illustrations in the
Club’s edition proved to be controversial, some members expressing a preference
for more representational depictions. The bookmaking enjoyed wide approval.