Clio on the Coast; The Writing of California History, 1845-1945
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by The Artichoke Press], 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 350 copies, quarto size, 215 pp., signed by Kevin Starr, with Roxburghe Club invitation. Fine / fine. Item #26110630
Historian Kevin Starr (1940-2017), California's State Librarian from 1994 to 2004, is best known for his multi-volume history of California, "Americans and the California Dream"; this volume, "Clio on the Coast", is a documentation of the writers of California history, beginning with Robert Greenhow in 1844, who was the first American to publish a history of California. Throughout the book, Starr describes the varied and vivid historians and the new themes and perspectives each brought to the history of California. A fascinating account of how the story of California developed, driven by those people whose lives and personalities left an indelible mark on the history of the state.
This is the 227th publication by The Book Club of California, printed by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press.
___DESCRIPTION: Quarter red cloth with red, yellow, and brown marbled paper boards, white paper spine label with red lettering and black ornaments, frontispiece a reproduction of a black-and-white engraving of Clio, the Muse of History, inside a cream-coloured oval, title page in red and black, fifteen historical portraits and twenty-three facsimile title pages throughout; Janson and Interlude types, Mohawk Superfine paper, quarto size (10" by 7"), pagination: [i-xii] [1-2] 3-201 [202-203], one of 350 copies, unnumbered, signed by Kevin Starr at the colophon. In a white paper dust jacket with red and black lettering on the front panel and spine, and publisher's device in red and black on the back panel. Loosely laid in is an invitation to a talk given by Kevin Starr to The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco on 19 April, 2016, on "Adolph Sutro and the Re-Founding of San Francisco: An Enduring Legacy and Challenge".
___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean, the corners straight with absolutely no wear, the binding tight with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and free of prior owner markings; clean, crisp, as new. The dust jacket is fine overall, unclipped, clean, with stray shallow crease or two. The invitation is also fine, clean and without wear.
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Price: $90.00