(#165950) Ah-wah-ne days: a visit to the Yosemite Valley in 1872 by "H. H. " [Helen Hunt Jackson]. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. HELEN MARIA HUNT JACKSON, FISKE.
Ah-wah-ne days: a visit to the Yosemite Valley in 1872 by "H. H. " [Helen Hunt Jackson]. Introduction by Oscar Lewis.
Ah-wah-ne days: a visit to the Yosemite Valley in 1872 by "H. H. " [Helen Hunt Jackson]. Introduction by Oscar Lewis.

Ah-wah-ne days: a visit to the Yosemite Valley in 1872 by "H. H. " [Helen Hunt Jackson]. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1971. 26.8x18 cm (large octavo), pp. [1-6: blank] [1-4], 5-84 [85-90: blank] [note: first and last two leaves used as front and rear paste-downs and free endpapers], 8 colored woodcut illustrations by Mallette Dean, decorated boards with cloth shelf back, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, fore-edges untrimmed. First separate edition. Early in May 1872 Helen Hunt Jackson set out from New York on a trip to California with her friend and fellow author Sarah Woolsey, better known by her pen name, Susan Coolidge. Throughout the summer and fall of that year "H. H.'s" account of their trip was published in sixteen issues the New York Independent, a weekly magazine. On June 17 they left San Francisco to visit Yosemite Valley and the Calaveras Big Tree Grove. The account of their excursion, published in seven consecutive issues of the Independent, October 3 through November 21, is collected here. "H. H.'s" Yosemite articles were collected with other sketches of California, the west, and New England and published in her Bits of Travel at Home (1878). "H. H." was an accomplished travel writer with the ability to involve her readers in those matters which came under her personal observation. She was possessed of a facile pen, an agreeable style, and a marked talent for choosing those subjects most likely to interest her readers. She paints an unforgettable portrait of Yosemite Valley in the 1870s. The narrative of her journey to and from the valley forms one of the best contemporary accounts of tourist travel in California during the period. BBC #137. A touch of light tanning at top and bottom edges at gutter edge of front and rear paste-downs (due to the book's construction, not abuse), else a fine copy in nearly fine unprinted tan dust jacket with touch of wear at edges and tanning. Prospectus (light vertical fold) laid in. (#165950).

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"450 / COPIES OF THIS BOOK / have been made by Mallette Dean / at Kentfield, California, ... / ... / This is publication number 137 of / The Book Club of California" on colophon page.