Description
Dawson's Book Shop, Published 1978. Hardcover, xvi, 109 pp.; 24 cm; 16 plates of black-and-white photographs.
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In Very Good condition, no dust jacket (as issued). Light blue paper-covered boards with repeating blue and purple paisley scroll design; black cloth spine with gilt lettering; boards and spine clean and bright with mild wear to extremities; binding tight. Interior pages clean and unmarked throughout; pale blue-green endpapers clean. Colophon states one of 400 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press, Pasadena. Laid in is the original Dawson's Book Shop purchase invoice dated December 15, 1978, recording the original sale price of $20.00.Truman's account of the California missions along El Camino Real, based on observations made in the late nineteenth century, edited and annotated by Msgr. Francis J. Weber and illustrated with platinotype photographs by Pasadena bookseller and photographer Adam Clark Vroman, taken in 1897. A finely produced limited edition from one of Los Angeles's preeminent antiquarian bookshops.Contents: Preface; The Photographs of A.C. Vroman; Prologue; Mision de San Diego de Alcala; Mision San Luis, Rey de Francia; Asistencia de San Antonio de Pala; Mision de San Juan Capistrano de Sajivit; Mision del Santo Principe el Arcangel San Gabriel de los Temblores alias Proviscanga; Mision del Senor San Fernando Rey de Espana; Mision del Glorioso Obispo Cardenal y Doctor Serafico de Iglesia San Buenaventura; Mision de Maria Santisima Nuestra Senora de la Soledad; Mision de la Senora Santa Barbara Virgen y Martir; Mision de San Luis, Obispo de Tolosa; Mision de San Carlos del Puerto de Monterey; Mision del Gloriosisimo Principe Arcangel Senor San Miguel; Mision de Santa Cruz; Mision de Nuestra Madre Santa Clara; Mision del Gloriosisimo Patriarca Senor San Jose; Mision de Nuestro Padre San Francisco; Mision de San Rafael Arcangel; Mision de San Francisco Solano; The Pious Fund of the Californias; Epilogue.