Search Results: california romantic and beautiful by james george wharton

BiblioBazaar, 2009-11-25. Paperback. Good.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-02-06. Paperback. Used:Good.

BiblioLife, 2009-11-25. Paperback. Good.

24.5cm by 16.5cm, 433pp, second impression, illustrated in b/w and colour frontispiece of El Capitan with tissue-guard, covers faded, spine almost completely faded, cracked joint but still square and firm, piece torn off lower corner of second last page, no text missing, unmarked.

Boston: The Page Company, 1921. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. v-xxiv, 3-434. Frontis. color illustration of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs on glossy paper. Bibliography. Index. Final two leaves uncut. Decorated endpapers. Top edge gilt. Bound in forest-green cloth with titles and illustration of a tree and young woman gilt & embossed in an Art Nouveau style on cover. Includes a map of California detached but laid in. Spine dulled, and with a small bleach mark. (Please see photos.). James, the great promoter of California, sets forth in his pleasant armchair-style with a narrative enhanced by many photo plates throughout, some in color. The decorated cloth is a triumph of design.

New.

Boston Ma: The Page Company, 1919. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Color Folding Map, 72 Plates Of Which 8 Are In Color. Xxv, 433 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Gilt, Yellow, Brown And Flesh Illustrated Endpapers. Folding Map And 72 Plates, 8 Colored. Fifth Printing, 1919, Stated. Near Fine, No Marks, Bright And Clean.

Boston: The Page Company, 1914. Hardcover. Very good. Second impression, November 1914. A volume in the See America First series. Title continues: The History of it Old Missions and of its Indians, A Survey of its Climate, Topography, Deserts, Mountains, Rivers, Valleys, Islands and Coast Line. A Description of its Recreations and Festivals, a Review of its Industries, An Account of its Influence upon Prophets, Poets, Artists and Architects and some Reference to what it Offers of Delight to the Automobilist, Traveller, Sportsman, Pleasure and Health Seeker. 433 pp, including index and bibliography, with 72 plates from photographs (8 in color) and folding map. Original dark blue art nouveau-style pictorial binding with decoration in gilt, yellow, and purple. Corners and spine ends rubbed, internally sound and clean. The book's opening line, "Romance and Beauty are words inseparably connected with California" sets the tone for the work. James' travel guide was intended to capture the essence of the… Read More

E-021: The Page Company. Good+. 1916. Third Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Page Company, Boston, MA 1916. Xxv, 433 pgs. 1 folding map, 72 plates with 8 in color (including the frontispiece). Decorated endpapers. Third printing. Bound in striking blue pictorial Art Nouveau gilt decorated floral binding with gilt decorated orange tree motiff present to the front board and the spine. Boards are ligthly scuffed and worn to the spine ends. Stamped on the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid Lavish popular guide to the Golden State's people, places, and history, along with descriptions of its flora and fauna. A volume in the See America First series, with a striking pictorial Art Nouveau trade binding. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 433 pages .

The Page Company, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. . Light edge wear, spine just barely faded, looks good on a shelf. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

Boston: The Page Company, 1914 First Printing in gilt-stamped & elaborately-decorated full blue cloth, the former copy of noted early California socialite Margaret Rishel Sartori with her bookplate to front pastedown (now fallen loose & laid in), no markings, NOT ex-lib, minor shelf wear to boards with rubbed wear & very beginnings of fraying to ends & corners, last white page torn with half-inch portion missing at foredge, hinges tight pages bright clean & unfoxed, color folding map present & in great shape as are all 72 plates, the 8 color with captioned tissue guards intact; Margaret Sartori was the wife of prominent early California banker, Joseph Francis Sartori, founder of what would eventually become Security Pacific Bank, one of the nation's largest banks before its merger with Bank of America in 1992; Margaret, a leading social figure in Southern California life at the turn of the last century, was a Regent of the University of California as well as part of the UC Berkeley Faculty Club, the… Read More