Diary of a San Diego Girl – 1856 [INSCRIBED]

Jacobs, Victoria. Diary of a San Diego Girl – 1856 [INSCRIBED]. Santa Monica: Norton B. Stern, 1974. Limited edition. 1/500. Sm. 8vo. 75,[2],pp. Purple cloth with gold lettering on spine. Inscribed by Norton B. Stern (publisher) to Dr. Stanley Chyet on half-title-page. Frontispiece with b/w reproduction of a photograph of the author. “When Victoria Jacobs was writing about day-to-day events in 1856 and romantically recording her love for her “dearly beloved betrothed,” she could not have known that some day her diary would become an important and unique document of social history. The diary entries allow us to capture a rare, intimate glimpse of life, early in the American period of San Diego.” Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs of San Diego Bay, San Diego in the 1850’s, Maurice A. Franklin, Sister Fanny and her family, Lionel M. Jacobs with the author’s sons, Old Town San Diego, San Bernardino Group, and Lewis A. Franklin. Edited by Sylvia Arden. Spine sunned, otherwise binding in near fine, interior in fine condition. vg. Hardcover. (24009) $65