Life's sunbeams and shadows; poems and prose with appendix including biographical and historical notes in prose, volume one

Published by The Bancroft Co. for the Author, San Francisco, 1893

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260p., semi-coated paperstock with frontis, preface, introduction and appendices. The lineup includes poems by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Joaquin Miller et alia. Find two fullpage plates, a photoportrait of Pelton and an imaginary portrait of him standing under heavenly light. There are several steel-engraved vignettes and a small photo of the "First Baptist church and first public school in California, 1819" (even decades later it is a single building resembling a warehouse); a relevant newsclip is laid in that has offset badly. Also find pencilled brackets and the address of the no longer extant church. Pastedown bears a generic bookplate with another label farther on, the 9x6 inch maroon cloth casing is uglified by shelfwear and fray, dampstaining, and a dimming to near-illegibility of the gilt titling. Hinges are OK, text is clean and sound. Gilman is represented by a single contribution, "Thanksgiving", a twelve-line poem. Pelton was San Francisco's superintendent of public schools and founder of the first public schools in California. His son was the architect of Pelton Homes which can still be found in the Haight.…

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Title
Life's sunbeams and shadows; poems and prose with appendix including biographical and historical notes in prose, volume one
Author
Pelton, John Cotter, introduction by Frank M. Pixley. Contributors include Charlotte Perkins Gilman [by her first married name, Charlotte Perkins Stetson], Edwin Markham, John Kendrick Bangs, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, other notables
Publisher
The Bancroft Co. for the Author, San Francisco
Publication year
1893
Binding
Hardcover
Seller catalogs
Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, Education, Feminism, Nineteenth century

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