In San Francisco the "rainy season" had been making itself a reality to the wondering Eastern immigrant. There were short days of drifting clouds and flying sunshine, and long succeeding nights of incessant downpour, when the rain rattled on the thin shingles or drummed on the resounding zinc of pioneer roofs. The shifting sand-dunes on the outskirts were beaten motionless and sodden by the onslaught of consecutive storms; the southeast trades brought the saline breath of the outlying Pacific even to the busy haunts of ...
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In San Francisco the "rainy season" had been making itself a reality to the wondering Eastern immigrant. There were short days of drifting clouds and flying sunshine, and long succeeding nights of incessant downpour, when the rain rattled on the thin shingles or drummed on the resounding zinc of pioneer roofs. The shifting sand-dunes on the outskirts were beaten motionless and sodden by the onslaught of consecutive storms; the southeast trades brought the saline breath of the outlying Pacific even to the busy haunts of Commercial and Kearney streets; the low-lying Mission road was a quagmire; along the City Front, despite of piles and pier and wharf, the Pacific tides still asserted themselves in mud and ooze as far as Sansome Street; the wooden sidewalks of Clay and Montgomery streets were mere floating bridges or buoyant pontoons superposed on elastic bogs; Battery Street was the Silurian beach of that early period on which tin cans, packing-boxes, freight, household furniture, and even the runaway crews of deserted ships had been cast away. There were dangerous and unknown depths in Montgomery Street and on the Plaza, and the wheels of a passing carriage hopelessly mired had to be lifted by the volunteer hands of a half dozen high-booted wayfarers, whose wearers were sufficiently content to believe that a woman, a child, or an invalid was behind its closed windows, without troubling themselves or the occupant by looking through the glass.
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Add this copy of A Ward of the Golden Gate to cart. $5.14, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
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Add this copy of A Ward of the Golden Gate to cart. $12.50, very good condition, Sold by The Haunted Bookshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Iowa City, IA, UNITED STATES, published 1890 by The Regent Press.
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Very Good in Good dust jacket in Good jacket. The pages of this copy are crisp, only very faintly age-toned, and quite clean, with no ownership marks; the binding is gently relaxed, but square and secure. The green cloth cover, titled in black and decorated in orange, shows only the very faintest hint of shelving rub at the lower corners and spine ends and one faint line of light-coloured soil near the spine head, and is otherwise clean and lovely. The jacket shows some chipping with a little loss of material over the spine head and at the corners, two short, closed tears at the upper front, some age-toning around the edges, one small spot and a little darkening at the spine, a few small spots at the lower front, and some rubbing at edges and shoulders, but is overall remarkably well-preserved and attractive, now protected in a clear, archivally safe sleeve.
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Add this copy of A Ward of the Golden Gate to cart. $20.00, good condition, Sold by Dan Glaeser Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Modesto, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1890 by Chatto & Windus.
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Good. Text is clean. Blueish cloth with orange and brown cover illustration and lettering. Gilt spine lettering. Repaired 2 inch tear to cloth at head of spine, along rear exterior gutter. Interior rear gutter glue reinforced. NAP.; (Baird & Greenwood, Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction, 1129 [Title only, not this edition]) (Wright, American Fiction 1876-1900, 2560-Title Only, not this edition); 302 pages.
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