Title: Zanita: A Tale of the Yosemite
Author: Yelverton, Therese [pseud. of Maria Theresa Longworth]
Description: iv, 296 pp. 7½x4¾, original blind-stamped orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.The first (and only) printing comprising 2,000 copies. The author "spent the summer of 1870 in Yosemite, where she attached herself to the Hutchings family and made eyes at John Muir. He escaped to the woods, but not before she had noted enough of his conversation and his ways of life to make him over into Kenmuir, the hero of her novel. Florence Hutchings became Zanita...whose demise by falling from Half Dome into Mirror Lake is the climax of the story" - Farquhar. And, Lawrence Clark Powell, about this book: "the oddest book in the literature of these mountains and John Muir is a novel written by a wandering English noblewomen....". A "sentimental and melodramitic novel which provided an authentic portrayal of John Muir" - Currey & Kruska 399; Farquhar 11; Cowan p. 699.
Heading: zzc(Yosemite)Place Published: New York
Publisher: Hurd & Houghton
Date Published: 1872
Author: Yelverton, Therese [pseud. of Maria Theresa Longworth]
Description: iv, 296 pp. 7½x4¾, original blind-stamped orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.The first (and only) printing comprising 2,000 copies. The author "spent the summer of 1870 in Yosemite, where she attached herself to the Hutchings family and made eyes at John Muir. He escaped to the woods, but not before she had noted enough of his conversation and his ways of life to make him over into Kenmuir, the hero of her novel. Florence Hutchings became Zanita...whose demise by falling from Half Dome into Mirror Lake is the climax of the story" - Farquhar. And, Lawrence Clark Powell, about this book: "the oddest book in the literature of these mountains and John Muir is a novel written by a wandering English noblewomen....". A "sentimental and melodramitic novel which provided an authentic portrayal of John Muir" - Currey & Kruska 399; Farquhar 11; Cowan p. 699.
Heading: zzc(Yosemite)Place Published: New York
Publisher: Hurd & Houghton
Date Published: 1872
Condition report
Spine faded and leaning, ends and corners a bit bumped, other light wear, still very good.
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Collection of Fine California Press Books
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