ADOBE DAYS: Being the Truthful Narrative of the Events in the Life of a California Girl on a Sheep Ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles While It Was Yet a Small and Humble Town...
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1926. Second Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Sarah Bixby-Smith on the title page. In this rollicking reminiscence, Sarah Bixby-Smith (1871-1935) tells of Los Angeles when it was "a little frontier town" and "Bunker Hill Avenue was the end of the settlement, a row of scattered houses along the ridge." She came there in 1878 at the age of seven from the San Justo Rancho in Monterey County. Small octavo: 217 pp. with a frontispiece portrait and textual photographs. Original brown paper-covered boards over a linen spine, with brown-stamped titles on the front panel and a printed paper spine label. Small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown, with an ink gift inscription to the front pastedown. Small scuff to the front board, with a bit of minor staining to the spine label; else very good. Very good. Item #78769
Price: $100.00