Author: Field, Maria Antonia
Title: Where Castilian Roses Bloom: Memoirs of Maria Antonia Field
Description: San Francico, Grabhorn Press, 1954. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, Brown spine with blue title block and gilt lettering. 142 pages : illustrations, color coats of arms, facsimiles, portraits. Contents: My family in California -- Random notes -- La Granja, my old home in Monterey -- Dr. Manuel Quixano -- Glimpses of the Spanish era of California -- A glipmse of San Carlos Church, Monterey, and of San Carlos Mission in Carmelo -- My father -- Family life in our old home as I knew it -- Sister Mary Angelica -- "The old order changeth" -- My experiences during the financial depression of the 'Thirties -- Musings -- Sojournings in Europe -- Pilgrimage to Saint Anne de Beaupre -- Vale -- Epilogue. VG. Ex-lib copy Cover shows minor wear. Bookblock has light age toning.

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