Author: ELDER PAUL
Title: California The Beautiful, Camera Studies By California Artists With Selections In Prose And Verse From Western Writers
Description: San Francisco, Paul Elder & Co. 1911, First Edition. Decorative Boards, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Ill.: Arnold Genthe. (1500 grams) tan paper covered boards with pasted on photo, 1/2 burlap spine, upper board lightly soiled, with some flaking to the gilt titling and a scuff at the top corner, a larger scuff with loss of top surface of some paper from the lower ( rear) board, 72 pp + 37 tipped in photographic plates, two by Arnold Genth, Contributions by Charles Warren Stoddard, Ina Coolbrith, Joaquin Miller, George Sterling, David Starr Jordan, Frank Norris, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess, Gertrude Atherton, Edwin Markham, John Muir, printed on tan card stock with the plates tipped on at one edge, tissue guard present at frontis Album of 37 monotone photographs, each tipped-in to a seprate page. Text of book, containing extracts from various California and Western writers and poets, is printed on brown stock. Book is bound in original hardcover binding - canvas-backed spine, brown paper-backed boards, front cover lettered in gold with photograph mounted within gold ruled borders. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Charles Warren Stoddard, Ina Coolbrith, Joaquin Miller, George Sterling, David Starr Jordan, Frank Norris, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess, Gertrude Atherton, Edwin Markham, John Muir, California Regional Writing Photographic Studies Prose Poetry Arnold Genthe


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