Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

New York: Oxford University Pres, 1973. First edition (no earlier editions or printings stated). Quarto in rust-colored cloth and brown picrial jacket; xviii, 494 pages portraits 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 460-479). Near fine with minor edges wear in a very good slightly edge-worn jacket. Please see photos. Now housed in archival mylar sleeve. in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780195016444

One of the better books on Early California History. Starr's first book. Contents: Prophetic patterns, 1786-1850 -- Beyond Eldorado -- City on a hill -- A rapid, monstrous maturity -- "Because I am a Californian": the loyalties of Josiah Royce -- Sport, mountaineering, and life on the land -- The Sonoma finale of Jack London, rancher -- Bohemian shores -- The city beautiful and the San Francisco Fair -- Life among the best and truest: David Starr Jordan and the founding of Stanford University -- Gertrude Atherton, daughter of the elite -- An American Mediterranean -- Americans and the California dream.