{"product_id":"to-2026-081","title":"Benito and Loreta Delfin: Children of Alta California","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLEETCH, Dorothy Lyman; MORA, Jo (illustrator). \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBenito and Loreta Delfin: Children of Alta California.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e. Boston: Lothrop, Lee \u0026amp; Shepard Co., 1932.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSmall octavo. 267 pp. Illustrated by Jo Mora with a frontispiece and twenty-one line drawings. In the original pictorial dust jacket, which repeats Mora's front-cover design. A fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket, with darkening to the spine and edges, wear to the extremities, a short closed tear and creasing to the upper rear edge, and damp staining along the flap edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA children's novel of Spanish California — the story of a boy and a girl growing up in the mission-era world of the padres, the presidios, and the great ranchos — written by Dorothy Lyman Leetch. What lifts the book for the collector is the illustrator: Jo Mora, the sculptor, cartographer, and \"Renaissance Man of the West,\" who produced its frontispiece and twenty-one line drawings in 1932 — the same Monterey Peninsula years in which he was making his most sought-after pictorial maps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBenito and Loreta Delfin\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the Mora-illustrated canon alongside \u003cem\u003eDawn and the Dons: The Romance of Monterey\u003c\/em\u003e (1926) and \u003cem\u003eFifty Funny Animal Tales\u003c\/em\u003e (1932), and is one of the more accessible titles for a collector building a Mora shelf. The book is genuinely uncommon in its pictorial dust jacket, and copies offered without the jacket sell for a fraction of the jacketed price; the jacket is the principal scarcity factor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-081\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leetch, Dorothy Lyman","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459953217697,"sku":"TO-2026-081","price":325.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-081_02.jpg?v=1783398266","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-081","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}