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Published by Historic America Publishers, Chicago
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Contains TWO TITLES by two different authors together in the ONE booklet: "The Old Spanish Missions of California" by Anne Jennings Nolan, PLUS "San Gabriel Mission & the Mission Play" by Mildred MacLean. Front cover title: "The California Missions - The Romance & Drama of the Missions and the Mission Play at San Gabriel - With Illustrations in Color & Sepia". No date (circa 1930), with former owner's ink date on title page as "36", so prior to 1936. Rear text page notes the Mission Play recently in its seventeenth year in 1928. Illustrated in colour & sepia. Contains a total of 45 fascinating vintage photographs, many full-page. Rear cover with printed map of El Camino Real & the California Missions. Scarce thin booklet. Staple-bound in publisher's original green-printed wraps with colorized b&w photograph affixed to front. Split to fragile covers along spine (half detached), former owner's ink inscription to title page, shelfwear with edgewear to cover & small scrape to front cover photograph, small chip to bottom corner p.5/6, small white-out to bottom corner p.7/8, otherwise a nice clean softcover copy. 72pp. RARE.