Author:Atherton, Gertrude

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The Californians.

By: Atherton, Gertrude.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: N.Y., B. W. Dodge: no date (c. 1903?)

Edition: 'Special Limited Edition'

Seller ID: 7299

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Condition

No limitation notice; 351 pp., pubs. ads; 8vo; blue cloth lettered in white. Cover with moderate rubbing & soil, mostly to spine, with spine lettering effaced; spine slightly cocked; bookplate on front endpaper; moderate tanning to endpapers & pastedowns; area of red offset to cloth back cover along spine, and lower corner near spine.

The first edition was published by John Lane, 1898. This edition, not found on World Cat, appears to be very scarce. Publisher's Weekly for 1903 lists this title and B. W. Dodge.
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A Daughter of the Vine.

By: Atherton, Gertrude.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London & N.Y., John Lane: The Bodley Head: 1899

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 10172

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine condition

8vo; blue cloth, lettered in white; top edge gilt; frontis portrait of the author; presentaion bookplate of Flodden W. Heron to Mills College on front pastedown; bookplate of Mills College, Albert Bender Collection on front endpaper. Small bookseller's label lower edge of rear pastedown for Robertson's, San Francisco. Her sensational first publication, based on the lurid lives of George and Nelly Gordon, serialized in The Argonaut, 1882 under the title "The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance," with the pseudonym Asmodeus, then re-titled A Daughter of the Vine. Very light cover wear; leading lowe...
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The Splendid Idle Forties. With illustrations by Harrison Fisher.

By: Atherton, Gertrude.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: N.Y., Macmillan: 1902

Edition: 1st Edition Thus

Seller ID: 10169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

8vo; red cloth, lettered in gilt & floral decoration in gold & green; presentaion bookplate of Flodden W. Heron to Mills College on front pastedown; bookplate of Mills College, Albert Bender Collection on front endpaper. Leading corners bumped, minor wear at spine ends; title page with light spots of tanning at extremities.

Gertrude Atherton [1857-1948]. Reared in San Francisco and its peninsula as Gertrude Franklin Horn, she returned from finishing school in Kentucky to find her mother contemplating a third marriage to George Atherton, son of a wealthy merchant and aristocratic Chilea...
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Author:Atherton, Gertrude

The Californians.

A Daughter of the Vine.

The Splendid Idle Forties. With illustrations by Harrison Fisher.