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CLARK, Thomas Blake. Omai. First Polynesian Ambassador to England. 
The True Story of His Voyage There in 1774 With Captain Cook; of How 
He Was Feted By Fanny Burke, Approved by Samuel Johnson, Entertained 
by Mrs Thrale & Lord Sandwich and Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. San 
Francisco: Colt Press, 1940. Illustrated with frontispiece. Quarto, 
cream cloth spine, paper label, brown boards . Spine very slightly 
dust soiled, ink name on front free endpaper, else fine. First 
edition. One of 500 copies.	$100.00

LEWIS, Oscar. Lola Montez. The  Mid-Victorian Bad Girl in California. 
San Francisco: Colt Press, 1938. Illustrated with woodcuts by 
Mallette Dean. Quarto, black cloth spine, printed paper label, red 
boards with pictorial paper label on front cover, prospectus laid in. 
Spine ends very lightly rubbed, small dent on upper front cover near 
spine,  covers minutely dust soiled, front and rear endpapers and 
flyleaf lightly browned, else fine. One of 750 copies; typography by 
Jane Grabhorn; inscribed by the author.
A biography of the famous actress, Lola Montez.	 $45.00

MACARTHUR, Mildred Yorka. California-Spanish Proverbs. (San 
Francisco): Colt Press, 1944. Octavo, red, green and black patterned 
boards, gilt lettered vellum spine. Fine. First edition. One of 450 
copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
Collected and edited by MacArthur who notes in her foreword "This 
collection of proverbs is drawn from a past filled with carefree 
childhood memories of Rancho Los Pinos in southern California". [GB 
536].	$100.00


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