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Some Recollections of a Busy Life, Hawkins, Signed

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Some Recollections of a Busy Life, Hawkins, Signed
HAWKINS, T. S [THOMAS SAMUEL]. Some Recollections of a Busy Life. San Francisco: Privately Published by Paul Elder and Company, 1913. One of a limited edition of 300 copies printed for family and friends. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt title, top edges gilt. A presentation inscription signed and dated by T. S. Hawkins, a founder of Hollister, California, and great-great grandfather of author Dave Eggers (McSweeney's re-issued Hawkins' memoir in 2015). Good; some fading and staining to cover, toning on title page from facing tipped-in frontispiece, tear to edge of title page from page cutting, flyleaf and free endpaper missing at back.