Description
California History Center, Published 1987. Hardcover, 79 pp.; 22 x 29 cm oblong; First Edition; illustrated with color and black-and-white reproductions of the paintings and sketches of Grace Carpenter Hudson.
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In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine; mild edge and shelf wear; binding tight. Inscribed "With All Best Wishes" and signed (not personalized) by co-author Jewell Malm Newburn in blue ink on the front free endpaper. Pages unmarked; light staining in the lower gutter of a few leaves. Pictorial dust jacket is a short, strip-style jacket that does not extend the full height of the boards; front panel reproduces Grace Hudson's flute-player painting; a 3/4 inch tear to the paper over the top edge of the front cover has been repaired with clear tape, with a matching repaired tear at the back; mild overall scuffing, soiling, and shelf wear to the jacket. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.A collection of original poems by Lois Prante Stevens and Jewell Malm Newburn, each paired with a reproduction of a painting or sketch by Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865-1937), the Ukiah, California artist nationally known for her numbered series of more than 684 portraits documenting the Pomo people of Mendocino County. Introductory essays by James C. Williams and James J. Rawls survey Hudson's life and the history of the Pomo. Issued by the California History Center at De Anza College as Local History Studies, volume 33.