Songs from Bohemia.
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1900.
8vo, 232 pp. Photographic frontispiece of the author with tissue guard. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Publisher's blue boards, backstrip gilt-lettered, upper board decorated in blue. Binding and deckle edge somewhat yellowed with age, contents clean and unfoxed.
§ First edition, printed at the Murdock Press. Daniel O'Connell (1849-1899) was a San Francisco journalist, poet, and co-founder and leading roisterer of the Bohemian Club. After his sudden death from pneumonia in 1899 this volume was prepared as a remembrance by Ina Coolbrith, the Bohemian Club librarian. The biographical sketch was provided by William Greer Harrison. Item #126992
Price: $150.00