Mountains and Molehills, or Recollections of a Burnt Journal
- New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1855
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1855. Very Good +. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1855. First US Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 393pp. Twenty-six (26) illustrations, including frontis, collated complete. Boards full bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine and blind stamped decoration overall. Light yellow endsheets. Board corners and spine ends bumped and lightly worn with scuffing to boards. Top edge dust soiled. Pencil to top margins of endsheets. Endsheets and prelims foxed; lightly foxed throughout. A mosquito was squished between pages 348 and 349. San Francisco bookseller's sticker plate to bottom of rear pastedown. A Very Good or better copy.
Englishman Frank Marryat was a sailor, artist, and author who lived in California for three years, experiencing the San Francisco Fire of 1851 firsthand. This book was published just after his return to England and his untimely death at 29. All of the illustrations were done by him, focusing on the people of San Francisco rather than the scenery, because, he claims in the preface, "As my sketches were destroyed by fire, I have been unable to illustrate the scenery of California..."
[Zamorano 52].
Englishman Frank Marryat was a sailor, artist, and author who lived in California for three years, experiencing the San Francisco Fire of 1851 firsthand. This book was published just after his return to England and his untimely death at 29. All of the illustrations were done by him, focusing on the people of San Francisco rather than the scenery, because, he claims in the preface, "As my sketches were destroyed by fire, I have been unable to illustrate the scenery of California..."
[Zamorano 52].