THE ADVENTURES OF STICKEEN IN LOWER CALIFORNIA, 1874: Edited by Anna Marie Hager

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Limited to 500 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena. This copy is inscribed by editor Anna Marie Hager and series editor Ed Carpenter to historian John Robinson on the half-title, with an invitation to an autograph party at Dawson's Book Shop and a related Roxburghe-Zamorano keepsake laid in. The source material for this, the 28th volume of the Baja California Travel Series, is a San Francisco anti-Catholic weekly of the 1870s, Thistleton's Illustrated Jolly Giant. Janes was a soldier of fortune whose round trip from San Francisco to La Paz provided (truncated) the adventures (largely mining and revolutionary, including a version of the "El Triunfo War") that are related in a brisk and somewhat humorous fashion. Octavo: 98 p. with three tipped-in color plates and nine illustrations (two folding). Original rust cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. Near fine. (Inventory #: 76938)