Cerruti

1954 · 10028 — Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library. Very Good. 1954. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 500 copies printed by the Gillick Press. 143pp.; 8vo; parchment paper spine lettered in gilt and brown paper over boards. Spine somewhat darkened. Laid in is a broadside printed on card stock: My Fourteen-Mile Hike by Warren Howell reprinted from The Target Berkeley: Willard Junior High School 1925 for members of the Berkeley Historical Society & for the Ross Valley Book Company. A brief but charming account of Howell's hike for a First Class Boy Scout test including being surrounded on all sides by a squirrel colony. Warren Howell eventually became the proprietor of John Howell Books in San Francisco. When Henry Cerruti knocked on the door of Hubert Howe Bancroft's office in San Francisco in October 1873 the Yankee merchant was in the process of converting himself from book dealer to historian determined to add to the narrative of California history after 15 years of a mass of material on the subject. . Friends of the Bancroft Library hardcover