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A Day in the Siskiyous: An Oregon Extravaganza
by J. Frank Hanly
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About This Item
Indianapolis: The Art Press, 1916. First Edition. 4to. 154 pp. Beautiful color and black & white plates after photographs by various photographers, with captioned tissue guards. Large folding panorama showing Ashland town in four panels. The text includes stanzas by various poets and authors. Green, black & gilt pictorial cloth in scarce cream illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (chips and wear along edges, spine ends and corners; 1" triangle chip on lower rear edge; some darkening and water spotting). The Siskiyous are part of the Shasta Cascade region along with the Oregon border. In this work, written over a period of four years, the authors shares is delight and reverence for this exceptionally beautiful area of the American West.
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- Carpe Diem Fine Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21693
- Title
- A Day in the Siskiyous: An Oregon Extravaganza
- Author
- J. Frank Hanly
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Art Press
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1916
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- Western Americana;
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Carpe Diem Fine Books
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Monterey, California
About Carpe Diem Fine Books
Carpe Diem Fine Books offers a discriminating selection of out-of-print, signed and unusual books in all fields – with an emphasis on the history and literature of California and the West. Proprietors James Bryant and Mary Hill have served an international clientele of private collectors and libraries since 1995. Their book gallery, located in a charming 1930's Carmel stone building just steps from the Robert Louis Stevenson House in historic Old Monterey, features a constantly changing inventory - from the classics to the unexpected.
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