Buy this book on-line Ver Mehr, J. L : Checkered Life: In the Old and New WorldA. L. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco, CA, 1877
First edition of the California portion. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 6" x 8 3/4." 476 pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Wear to the head and tail of spine and corners. Spots on the back cover, possible dampstains. Quoted from Gary Kurutz, no. 650: "A first edition appeared in 1864 without any reference to California. The 1877 Bancroft edition added Part II, which provides a superb recollection of an Episcopalian minister trying to win souls in the torrid atmosphere of the early 1850s. With his family, Ver Mehr left New York on February 8, 1849, on the ship George Washington and arrived in San Francisco on the 8th or 9th of September. In these recollections, he recounts starting Grace 'Chapel' on the corner of Jackson and Powell streets, participating in the General (Episcopal) Convention of 1853, witnessing the appointment of Rev. Ingraham Kip, and assisting in the consecration of Grace Church. The reverend also established St. Mary's Hall in Sonoma and San Francisco. As Norris points out, this man of cloth had no hesitancy telling about a San Francisco gambler's funeral and the hanging of deserters on Commodore Jones's ship in San Francisco Bay.". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Ver Mehr, J. L : Checkered Life: In the Old and New World. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, first editions, livres d'occasion, livres rares and livres anciens. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |