Stephen Clark Foster (11 results)

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus. 12mo (6 ¼" x 4"). Original gilt stamped blue cloth. No dust jacket. Fine. 35 pages. No signatures or bookplates. One of 100 copies. Printed by William M. Cheney.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. v+35 pages. Duodecimo (6 1/4" x 4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition in book form, first published in the Los Angeles "Evening Express" of March 8 and 9 1878. One of 100 copies printed for Glen Dawson. Stephen Clark Foster was a politician, the first American mayor of Los Angeles under United States military rule. Foster served in the state constitutional convention, and was elected to the State Senate. He was elected as mayor of Los Angeles in 1856, and later elected for four terms to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. During his early years in Los Angeles, Foster made a marriage important to his standing in the community. He met and married María Merced Lugo, one of the sisters of José del Carmen Lugo. Their father was a prominent Californio landowner. The Fosters had five children together. In the stormy period when California was under US military rule after the defeat of the Mexicans, Governor Richard Barnes Mason appointed the 26-year-old Foster alcalde (mayor) of Los Angeles to replace the dissolved ayuntamiento (government) of the Mexicans. For this reason, Foster often has been referred to as the first American mayor of the city. He served as alcalde from January 1, 1848 to May 21, 1849. For the remainder of that year, or until the city came under United States jurisdiction in 1850, Foster served as prefect. Foster achieved his first political office after statehood in 1850, when he was elected to the Los Angeles Common Council for a one-year term. In 1851 he was elected California state senator from Southern California, and served two years. In 1854, Foster was elected mayor of Los Angeles. He is credited with authorizing construction of the first public school in Los Angeles. Los Angeles was then said to be the toughest frontier town in the United States. It had a diverse population with simmering tensions after the war, as well as a "disorderly element". The surrounding territory was overrun by bandits driven from the gold mines of northern California southward into the cattle ranching counties. Numerous gamblers and criminals drifted into the city to escape the vigilantes of San Francisco. Mayor Foster, like most of the city's prominent citizens, was a member of the local vigilance committee and of the Los Angeles Rangers, the mounted body of volunteer police. In early 1854, Foster resigned his official position to lead a lynching mob. After the lynching, the people held a special election and returned Foster to office for the remainder of his regular term. Foster was re-elected mayor in 1856. He resigned Sept. 22, 1856, to act as executor for the large estate of his brother-in-law, Colonel Isaac Williams. Condition: Slightly dusty else a very good copy issued without jacket. …

First Edition thus. 16mo; [2], v, [1, blank], 35pp. A Near Fine copy in blue cloth lettered in gold at spine (very slight fading; small previous owner initials). First book edition, first published in the Los Angeles Evening Express, 1878. Foster was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1849. When the second Constitutional Convention was about to be held he wrote this account of his trip to Monterey for the original Convention. A graduate of Yale and an Alcalde of Los Angeles, Foster served as state Senator in the 'fifties. He was also the first Superintendent of Schools and inaugurated the public school system in Los Angeles. One of 100 copies printed for Glen Dawson by William M. Cheney.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Blue cloth gilt, 12mo., v., 35, (1) pages. One of 100 copies printed for Glen Dawson by William M. Cheney. A clean, near fine copy with very slight wear to the covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. One of 100 copies. The boards show some fading on the spine and a slight mark at the top edge on the front. The hinges and the spine are very good. The inside pages are bright and look unmarked. 35 pages. The author was a delegate to the California Constitutional Convention of 1849.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. DARK BLUE CLOTH; 1/100 COPIES FIRST EDITION THUS VERY GOOD.

First edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Limited edition of 100 copies. Fine copy. 35 pps. Gilt decorated hard cover. Blue cloth.

Stephen Clark Foster (1821-1898) was a delegate to the California Constitutional Convention of 1849, He later became mayor or Los Angeles, and is credited with authorizing the construction of the first public school in Los Angeles. Octavo. [2], v, [1, blank], 35 pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine. One of 100 copies printed by Will Cheney. Jones, 15. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First book edition, first published in the Los Angeles Evening Express, 1878. 100 copies printed for Glen Dawson by William M. Cheney. 16mo. [2], v, [1, blank], 35pp. Dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Spine lightly faded and with 3 minor spots, else a fine copy. The author was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1849. When the second Constitutional Convention was about to be held, Foster, then fifty-eight years old, wrote this account of his trip to Monterey for the original Convention. Foster was a graduate of Yale, Alcalde of Los Angeles. In the fifties, he served as state Senator. He was also the first Superintendent of Schools and inaugurated the public school system in Los Angeles. Book.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1860 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 23 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…