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Mary Austin's California: The Land of the Sun

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Mary Austin's California: The Land of the Sun

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Author: Austin, Mary
Title: California: The Land of the Sun
Place Published: London
Publisher:Adam and Charles Black
Date Published: [1914]
Description:

viii, 178 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with 32 tipped-in color plates from paintings by Sutton Palmer, with printed tissue-guards; folding map of California in the back. (4to) color pictorial green cloth stamped in blue, gray, orange, and dark green, spine lettered in dark green inside of a gilt background. First Edition.

Scenic views in color include: Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta, Monterey, Mt. Tamalpais, and San Diego. Newspaper clippings of the author's death mounted to front flyleaf. Illustrated bookplate of the Pacific-Union Club on front pastedown, early ownership signature.

Condition

Light rubbing to cloth edges; 2 leaves at front, including frontispiece and half-title, detached together and laid in; very good.

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