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JACKSON, Helen Hunt (1830–1885). Ramona. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. 8vo. 4 pp. ads. Publisher’s red cloth stamped in gilt and black, floral endpapers; housed in a cloth drop back box with leather gilt spine label by O’Connell & Gabriel (chipped). FIRST EDITION of this important California book which The Zamorano 80 expresses for two reasons being that “it spread the fame of California and no doubt inspired a considerable number of people to migrate here in the nineties and in the first two decades of this century…” and it exposed “the abuses to which Southern California Indians were subjected, it resulted in numerous wholesome reforms in the administration of Indian affairs.” A FINE COPY. BAL 10456; The Zamorano 80, 46.