SIMONSON, HAROLD P. — Francis Grierson. ---- [AKA Jesse Shepard]

New York. Wayne Publishers, Inc. 1966, 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. From Twayne's United States Authors Series. Hardcover book, tight and unworn condition. In solid clipped-corner dust jacket with only light edge wear. Ownership signature of local historian/author on from endpaper. Inscribed by author SIMONSON on the half-title page "With Best Wishes, Harold P. Simonson, Nov. 11, 1972". Grierson, born Jesse Shepard, whose house is a revered San Diego historical landmark. was a pianist and spiritualist author, and "A key figure in the intellectual climate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.A blend of Victorian gentility, idealism and Romanticism", as well as, unstated, a gay man. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s).