AUSTIN, Mary.
California: The Land of the Sun.
FIRST EDITION. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914.
Large 8vo, viii, 178 pp + [2] pp publisher's advertisements. Illustrated by Sutton Palmer. Thirty-two tipped-in colour plates by Sutton Palmer with captioned tissue guards (including the frontispiece). Folding map of California at rear. Index. Original green cloth with signed pictorial design by Henry Hunt Clark, printed in blue, orange, and yellow on front and spine; titling background blocked in gilt on front and spine; top edge gilt. Part of A & C Black's Colour Books series. Inman 649; Cowan p. 23; Rocq 16661.
Austin's California in the form of an English colour book, her eight essays moving from origin myth and geology through the coast, Monterey, the missions, the Central Valley, and the eastern Sierra. Palmer's plates take in Yosemite (the subject of five), Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta, the Trinity Alps, the Coast Range, Monterey, and Southern California.
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