Cooke Grace Macgowan Auth (1 results)

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. 55 pgs. Red cloth ruled in blind and gilt, with gilt titles, pastedown title and illustration to upper cover, small hole in cloth of lower cover, occasional foxing but overall and attractive copy. Two young boys fumble their way through a social call on a young female neighbor. 14 b&w plates by Peter Newell. The author, Grace MacGown Cooke was a popular writer and free-thinker, associated with Upton Sinclair's Helicon Home Colony and later moved to an art colony in Carmel, CA where she lived with her sister. Cooke's cove was named for them and their home is on the California list of Historic Homes as it was designed by one of California's first female architects, Eugenia Maybury. Size: 8vo. Peter Newell (illustrator).…