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Author: Lindley, Walter and J.P. Widney
Title: California of the South: Its Physical Geography, Climate, Resources, Routes of Travel, and Health-Resorts - 2 copies, First and Third Editions
Place Published: New York
Publisher:D. Appleton and Company
Date Published: 1888 and 1896
Description:

Comprising:

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  viii, 377 +[4] ad pp. With 3 folding maps, 2 of which in color. 19x12.5 cm (7½x5"), red cloth with stamped black vignette, lettered in gilt on cover and spine. First Edition.


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  xii, 335 pp. With one folding color map. red cloth with stamped black vignette, lettered in gilt on cover and spine. Third Edition. (Bookplate and ownership marks).

"The guide book enjoyed great success, arriving early in 1888, close to the height of the Southern California Boom. A second edition was issued later in 1888, with 402 pages, including an Index and a short section on changes in the nine months since the first edition was published...A third , revised edition was issued in 1896" - Dawson 80: 38.

Light wear with a bit of staining to cloth, dampstaining to Third Edition copy; very good.