The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (Southern California): Its Rivers and its Mountains, its Canyons and its Springs, its Life and its History, Pictured and Described including an Account of a Recent Journey made down the Overflow of the Colorado River to the Mysterious Salton Sea

Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1906

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Seller: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.Sutton Books

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TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE Hbks, royal 8vos, Volume 1: 270pp; Volume 2: pp 271-547+advertisements, illustr frontis in each volume with tissue-guards, 337 pen-and-ink sketches, 33 halftone photo plates, maps (1 folding), lacking original djs, beige cloth over embossed and gilt blue cloth, gilt spine titles, gilt top foredges, Volume 1 has 3 small smudges to the cloth (fingermarks perhaps), otherwise the boards are bright, clean and crisp, now in custom acetate jackets, all hinges sound, Association Copy Frank C. and Clara Churchill (Churchill was Special Agent and Indian Inspector for the Department of the Interior from 1899 to 1909 and his library formed the heart of the National Museum of the American Indian collection), Churchill’s bookplate on front endpapers along with museum reference collection stamps, in three instances (half-title page and pages 318 and 319) there is toning caused by the careless placement of newspaper articles between the pages, otherwise the text is bright, clean, tight and unmarked and overall a very good+ set.

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Title
The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (Southern California): Its Rivers and its Mountains, its Canyons and its Springs, its Life and its History, Pictured and Described including an Account of a Recent Journey made down the Overflow of the Colorado River to the Mysterious Salton Sea
Author
JAMES, George Wharton with Carl Eytel (illustr)
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1906
Condition
Near Fine
Binding
Hardcover

Sutton Books

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Sutton Books is an ABE 'Heritage Bookseller,' and a member of IOBA, trading online almost exclusively since 1995. The proprietors travel extensively and have bases both in the USA and the UK. Our specialty is books in religion and theology, but we stock all academic subject areas and seek to serve the academic community with books of scholarly interest and usefulness.

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Norwich, VT U.S.A. 05055