James Henry

Undaunted 1915. San Francisco’s Welcome from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

1915 · réf. 60861 — San Francisco CA: Planned & Printed by Bolte & Braden Co. 1915. 8vo. 20 pp unpaginated. w/ colour-illustrated borders throughout numerous illustrations 1 in colour 1 double-page. Dark purple coloured softcovers raised embossed decoration of California bear standing atop San Francisco w/ arrow and date embossed in blind yapp fore-edges minor shipping edgewear minor sunning to fore-edges still VG- copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this uncommon and nicely printed anthology of poetry organized by two San Francisco businessmen MacLafferty & Taylor along with the Bolte & Braden printing Co. to celebrate the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Featured alongside Bret Harte & Joaquin Miller are poems by California women poets Ina Coolbrith 1841-1928 a co-editor of the Overland Monthly and the first woman to become an honorary member of the Bohemian Club became California’s first poet laureate in 1915; and Hester Benedict Dickinson 1838-1921 who was a founder of the California Writers Club and served as president of the Pacific Coast Women’s Press Assoc. The work was originally issued as a banquet souvenir held in Feb. 1911 at the Riggs House Washington D.C. Planned & Printed by Bolte & Braden Co., paperback