HAPPIER FOR HIS PRESENCE: San Francisco and Robert Louis Stevenson by Issler, Anne Roller - 1949

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 20 textual illustrations. After Monterey, Stevenson moved on to San Francisco. This period was a crucial one in his life as an artist, and it was during these few months in San Francisco that he found himself on his own. In the San Francisco of the "Nob Hill" days, Robert Louis Stevenson, pitifully poor, deeply in love, and ill, began to find the genius that made him famous. Original brown cloth binding, with dark brown titles. Bookplate to the front pastedown. The dust jacket is a trifle edgeworn, with a closed tear to the bottom of the front panel that has been neatly mended with tape on the verso. A very good copy.