For the Soul of Rafael Marah Ryan book 1909 mission CA Native Americans South selling West vintage antique

For the Soul of Rafael

vintage arts selling and craft book

Marah Ellis Ryan

This is a novel set in an early mission in southern California.

A C McClurg & Co. Chicago 1909 eighth edition

First published in 1906

Illustrated from photographs taken expressly for the book and tipped onto each page, by Harold Taylor

Each page has a beautiful decorative border hand blocked and designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. Seymour was a well known artist and publisher, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Fletcher_Seymour

(Frontispiece titled "Because of One Little White Vampire" plus 18 more illustrations: Dona Angela; Raquel Estevan; Keith Bryton; "Never on any other shore"; "you lied to me--all of you! "; "Ruelas me fecit: me llama san juan 1796"; "then I heard your voice"; "here among the ruins consecrated"; "there is no forgetting"; "the aliso tree"; "an inner court"; the serenade; "after the very gay supper"; "their hostess had arrived"; "and he was an arteaga"; "each way he turned he met an altar or a priest"; "one wordless minute"; "things known and never told".)

Harold Taylor was a well know photographer of the arts and crafts movement in San Diego.

Bound in leather with gold. 5 ½ X 8 inches, 378 pages.

Condition: Covers have rubs and small tears on the edges. Binding is partly split in the front & the insides of the front & back covers have toning on the edges. The outside edges of the pages are toned. Overall a very beautiful book. (The red streak in the photo of the spine is from my scanner.)

For more information about the author see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marah_Ellis_Ryan

Los Angeles, July 11 (AP)”Mrs. Marah Ellis Ryan, writer and authority on Indians, died today at her home in the Silver Lake district from encephalitis (sleeping sickness) at the age of 68. Mrs. Ryan went to live among the Hopi Indians twenty-five years ago and claimed to be the only white woman ever admitted to the secret religious rites. She was noted as an authority on the tribal life of the Indians in the United States and Mexico. Mrs. Ryan was born in Butler County, Pa., a daughter of Graham and Sidney Mechling Martin. As a young woman she wrote a few poems and stories under the pen-name of Ellis Martin. In 1883 she married S. Erwan Ryan of New York, an actor, who died several years ago. Among the many books by Mrs. Ryan issued over a period of thirty-six years, 1889-1925, were the following: Love's Domain,Squaw Eloise,A Flower of France,That Girl Montana,Indian Love Letters,The Woman of Twilight,The House of the Dawn,Treasure Trail, and The Dancer of Tuluum.

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