L. W. Currey, Inc.

Spaulding, J. A., writing as "J. A. S. in Hartford Evening Post." FROM NEW ENGLAND TO THE PACIFIC. NOTES OF A VACATION TRIP ACROSS THE CONTINENT IN APRIL, MAY, AND JUNE, 1884. [By] J. A. S. in Hartford Evening Post. Hartford, Conn. Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1884. 14.5x10.5 (small octavo), pp. [1-9] 10-203 [204: blank], flyleaves, original green cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, cream endpapers. First edition. A detailed account of a transcontinental Raymond tour (with a list of the excursionists) that left Boston for the Pacific coast on 24 April 1884. The participants traveled by rail to Colorado, then to California by the southern route, then from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and then returned to Boston though the Sierra Nevada. Includes a chapter, "Delightful Days at Los Angeles." Cowan (1933), p. 603. Norris catalogue 3689. Not in Rocq. Bookplate of Thomas Jenkins Craven affixed to the front pastedown, gift inscription dated 14 August 1884 on front free endpaper. Light wear to spine ends and corner tips, inner rear hinge cracked, front inner hinge partially cracked, but a very good, still sound copy. (#168110).

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