{"product_id":"to-2026-070","title":"The Eggshell Season: A Letter from Monterey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGARNER, William R. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Eggshell Season: A Letter from Monterey.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonterey, California: Privately Printed, 1976.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA miniature book, approximately 3 × 2³⁄₁₆ inches, 7 pp., hand-set in Bookman type and printed in a limited edition of 100 copies by Roger R. Hilleary. Issued with its original envelope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe text reproduces a letter written from Monterey by William R. Garner — the English expatriate who served as secretary to Walter Colton, the first U.S. alcalde of Monterey — first published in the Philadelphia \u003cem\u003eNorth American\u003c\/em\u003e on December 7, 1846. Garner's 1846–47 letters are among the most vivid and reliable firsthand accounts of California life in the years just before the Gold Rush; Colton himself drew on them for his own \u003cem\u003eThree Years in California\u003c\/em\u003e (1850). The original envelope makes a fitting presentation for a text that is itself a letter — a charming small-press production with a genuine double appeal: to collectors of Monterey and early-California history, and to the dedicated miniature-book collecting community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-070\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Garner, William R.","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459952791713,"sku":"TO-2026-070","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-070_01.jpg?v=1784604612","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-070","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}