From Kapuvar to California 1893: Travel Letters of Baron Gustav von Berg.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1979.
4to, 73 pp. Quarter red cloth, grey paper boards decoration in red to upper board, gilt lettering to backstrip. Bookplate. A very good copy in the original plain dust-wrapper (lightly worn at crown, titled in pencil on spine) with the prospectus laid in.
§ Edition of 500 copies printed by Don Greame Kelley & Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press, San Anselmo, California. "Baron von Berg, a wealthy Hungarian leaseholder, accompanied by his teenage daughter and her English companion, toured the United States and Canada for three months during the year of the Columbian Exposition. After his return to Kapuvár he published the letters, which graphically describe in a lively style the fin-de-siècle America he had seen... The seven letters written from San Francisco, Monterey, Yosemite, Fresno, and Los Angeles have been translated by Dr Henry Miller Madden, University Librarian Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of Bibliography at California State University, Fresno, who has supplied an authoritative introduction and informative notes" (Prospectus). Item #126894
Price: $25.00