Poetry of the Pacific: Selections and Original Poems from the Poets of the Pacific States

San Francisco: Pacific Publishing Company, [1867 but 1869]. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's brown blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt, brown glazed endpapers; viii,[9]-415pp.; text printed within double rule. Ex-Virginia Union Reform Club Library with their internal contemporary ex libris and small rubber stamp, boards a bit scuffed with corners bumped, faint dampstain along top margin of textblock; still, Very Good and sound overall. Publisher's cancel to title page with the updated address and date of 31 Kearny Street, 1869 (copyright 1866). COWAN & COWAN, p. 675: "This, and 'Outcroppings,' were the earliest California anthologies.