Lilly Hitchcock Coit.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1935.
4to, 47 pp. Quarter black fabric, orange paper boards, illustration of fire helmet to upper board, paper label lettered in black to backstrip. Very good copy, backstrip slightly rubbed and sunned, contents clean.
§ One of 450 copies. Printed in black and orange, illustrated with portraits and facsimile letters. An account by a friend of San Francisco's most famous volunteer firewoman, the mascot of the Knickerbocker Company No. 5. A true gambling, smoking, San Francisco eccentric of the early years, a bequest she left to the city was used to build Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill. Item #126863
Price: $75.00
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