The Wonderful City of Carrie Van Wie: Paintings of San Francisco at the turn of the century.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1963.
Folio. Title page with illustration, introduction and 21 other plates each with a page of descriptive text. Quarter linen and patterned teal paper boards. Bookplate on front pastedown. A near fine copy with slight toning to the backstrip label. Original prospectus laid in.
§ Edition of 525 copies. A handsome Book Club of California Christmas publication reproducing twenty two paintings of San Francisco in the 1890s by a young woman artist. "The introduction by Oscar Lewis sets forth what has been discovered about this forgotten folk artist and relates the extraordinary circumstances connected with the book's origin." (Prospectus). Item #126847
Price: $50.00