Apron Full of Gold: The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco 1849-1856 (from the library of noted historian Ralph Bieber) by Megquier, Mary Jane (edited by Robert Glass Cleand) - 1949

Huntington Library, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Ix, 99 Pp. Black Cloth, Spine Gilt, Illustration On Front Cover. First Printing, With 1949 Date On Title Page. Fine; Ownership Signature Of Pasadena Author Earle Hugens. Dust Jacket Priced $3.50, Light Usage, Small Edge Tears And Losses.

San Marino: Huntington Library, 1949. 1st Edition. ix, 99p., b/w illus., lightly chipped dj.

San Marino, California:: Huntington Library, 1949.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black cloth with gilt spine text, paste-on vignette on the front board; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good- dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) . Description: Includes a frontis plus seven additional black and white plates. From the jacket blurb: ''According to family tradition, Mary Jane Megquier was the first white woman to cross the Isthmus of Panama during the Gold Rush. Whatever the truth of the tradition, the reader of the letters will remember her as the typical pioneer woman of the Great Migration. With unfailing courage and a saving sense of humor, she met fires, floods, vigilantes and housekeeping trials with undaunted spirit. From her tiny dwelling overlooking the busy bay of San Francisco her letters to her children bring to life the noisy, turbulent city, with its disasters and troubles matched by gay social affairs,… Read More

San Marino, Calif. , Huntington Library, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and suprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 99 pages; Description: ix, 99 p. Illus. , port. 24 cm. ""From manuscripts in the Huntington Library."" Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Megquier, Mary Jane, 1813-1899 --Correspondence. Voyages to the Pacific coast. Frontier and pioneer life --California. California --Gold discoveries. Series: Huntington Library publications