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The Coppa Murals, Micaela Martinez's Copy.

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The Coppa Murals, Micaela Martinez's Copy.
UNNA, WARREN. The Coppa Murals: A Pageant of Bohemian Life in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1952. 8vo. Pictorial paper boards, cloth spine. Illustrations. Micaela Martinez DuCasse's copy, with her signature on front free endpaper. Condition: Some fading and dampstaining to covers; fading/discoloring to cloth spine; some foxing, mostly to margins/edges; inked marks/underlines on p. 49 and 51. Together with a clipped article on "Poppa Coppa" (Living Magazine 1976). From the Family of Xavier Martinez (1869-1943), Elsie Whitaker Martinez (1890-1984), and Micaela Martinez DuCasse (1913-1989). Xavier Martinez painted the black cat frieze at Coppa's Restaurant, the gathering spot of the Bay Area Bohemian crowd. Unna writes of Xavier "Marty" Martinez "...the exuberant spirit of La Boheme itself, the artist who had gone to the Parisian Latin Quarter and returned. And in returning he had brought with him the full flavor of Bohemian abandon..." Elsie Whitaker Martinez, a figure in the social scene with Marty and her father, Herman Whitaker, contributed her memories to the author. Together with:  BURGESS, GELETT. The Heart Line. A Drama of San Francisco. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Company, 1907.12mo. Gray cloth and pictorial paper cover. Illustrations by Lester Ralph. Condition: Fair-Good; front gutter with slight splitting, flyleaf missing, remnants of clippings/bookplates on pastedown. Unna writes that The Heart Line was based on Burgess's Coppa associations, renaming the cafe "Fulda's" and basing the main character, "Fancy Gray" on habitue Isabel Fraser, casting Marty Martinez as "Maxim", and George Sterling as "Philip Starr".