Ramona; A Story [Introduction by Susan Coolidge and Illustrations by Henry Sandham from A. C. Vroman photographs] [Pasadena Edition, two volumes bound in one]

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1905. Later edition. Good. [8x5.5in]; Vol. I - xxix [introduction], [4], Notes to and lists of illustrations, 310 pp., frontispiece of Helen Hunt Jackson with signature, 8 plates of illustrations, 14 chapter heading illustrations, Vol. II - [2] illustration lists, 308 pp., frontispiece plate illustration, 7 plates of illustrations, 12 chapter heading illustrations; Maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, gilt illustration on front of houses and landscape with line border; top edge gilt and all others untrimmed; Some shelf wear to covers, edges and corners with rubbing to joints and minor fraying of top and bottom of spine, slightly faded spine, several spots on covers, hinges cracked and loose, but holding, all plates present and several with old tape repair at hinges, tipped in magazine article of "Ramona Land". [Zamorano80 #46, Powell California Classics #23]. Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was an American poet, writer and activist in the treatment of Native Americans. This novel was published in 1884 to highlight the continuing impacts of the California missions on the Native Americans. Instead, it was seen as a nostalgic historic romance novel that grew into a tourist attraction. From the Volkmann Collection catalogue, "In summarizing the importance of Jackson's novel, Lawrence Clark Powell wrote: 'Ramona was the first novel about Southern California. Today, nearly a century after its publication, it remains the best California book of it kind ..."

In the Volkmann Collection catalogue, Gary Kurutz discusses noteworthy later editions with illustrations and points out "... the Pasadena edition (1902) with photographic illustrations by A.C. Vroman, the noted amateur photographer.