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Color-illus rustic brown cloth octavo; approx 200-300 pages (unpaged); illustrations throughout (chiefly b&w); 21 cm Two volumes: Book 1 & Book 2, comprising a run of 24 issues of The Lark (cover title), the influential early California humor magazine (presumably the first). Bookseller stamp of John Howell to rear board paste-downs of both volumes. Bookmark of bookseller John Howell also laid in, along with a clipped newspaper article "Man Who Never Saw a Purple Cow. Gelett Burgess Writes His Own Interview," from San Francisco Chronicle, July 27, 1942. Contributions by Ernest Peixotto, Bruce Porter, Willis Polk, K. Porter Garnett, Yone Noguchi, Florence Lundborg, Juliet Wilbur Tompkins, Pedro L. A., Dynas Powis, Morgan Shepard, Reginald Rix, Herbery Van Vlack, Carolyn Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others. || California. American wit and humor. Magazine. Graphic Design, Illustration, Book Arts.
129 pages. Glossary. Index. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. Author's annotated business card laid-in. Abundantly illustrated in color and black and white. Takes readers back to her childhood - describes adventures, trials and tribulations and pleasurable experiences too, of being born in a large family which grew up on Mother Lode country. - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book