Whitehead, Richard S. — Alta California's Four Fortresses

Los Angeles, California, Zamorano Club, 1986. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine reprint edition from the Zamorano Club of the original publication from the Southern California Quarterly, LXV (Spring 1983). Big, tall, pumpkin-colored wraps, front bottom tip crimped, sewn binding, double-column texts, lovely initials, and with plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs including facsimiles, each depicting the historical backdrop and colonial underpinnings of Spain's attempts to claim and colonize Upper California, five California Presidios. Architectural plans, portraits, letters, memos. A lovely keepsake indeed. Unpaginated, but roughly 24 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine