Second printing. Originally issued as an Autograph Edition of 1000 numbered and signed copies. A story of the Southern California chaparral as it edges toward the Mohave Desert, and of the people there in the 1940s and early 1950s, Jews, who were among the first rose farmers, and who cut out a chunk of it and sometimes disintegrated from the passions of the settlement that made them. They raised and hybridized roses, roses were their livelihood and...