SEEING CALIFORNIA WITH HENERY. A COLLECTION OF HIS FAMOUS STORIES OF WIT AND HUMOR AND A VIEW BOOK OF AMERICA'S PLAYGROUND / (TITLE PAGE) SEEING CALIFORNIA WITH HENERY. A COMPLETE REVIEW IN PICTURE AND HUMOROUS STORY OF ALL POINTS AND FEATURES OF INTEREST IN THE GOLDEN STATE
Published by Daily Doings Publishing Company, 1920., Los Angeles, 1920
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
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First edition. 8 1/2" x 11" in original pictorial die-cut gray over-sized wrappers, printed in black and gilt. Illustrations. Stapled. Contents. Illustrations. A well-illustrated promotional booklet advertising California's popular scenic attractions and tours, with emphasis on Southern California. Includes Henry's trip to Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees. Brief travelogues spiced with early twentieth-century humor of the traveling salesman variety. "'Be sure and take the Big Tree Trip on your way out of the valley,' says a man I met in camp. 'I came in that way. The folders say it's great.' 'Why do you take the folder's word for it when you went over the trip yourself?' says I. 'Well,' says he, 'I met [a] blonde on the stage and I had to read up on the folder when the trip was over to find out what I should have seen.' We took the man's advice and started one morning on the big tree trip" (p. 11). Light tanning to pages along with Light wear and chipping to over-sized wrappers. Very good.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- SEEING CALIFORNIA WITH HENERY. A COLLECTION OF HIS FAMOUS STORIES OF WIT AND HUMOR AND A VIEW BOOK OF AMERICA'S PLAYGROUND / (TITLE PAGE) SEEING CALIFORNIA WITH HENERY. A COMPLETE REVIEW IN PICTURE AND HUMOROUS STORY OF ALL POINTS AND FEATURES OF INTEREST IN THE GOLDEN STATE
- Author
- McKINNEY, DWIGHT F
- Publisher
- Daily Doings Publishing Company, 1920., Los Angeles
- Publication year
- 1920
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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Buckingham Books specializes in new, used and Rare Books dealing with Western Americana, Ephemera and Mystery. Western Americana includes Maps, Photographs, Letters, Documents, Art, and Ephemeral Material related to the History of the American West, Canada and Northern Mexico. Our Specialties include Cowboys, Cattle and Development of the Range, Mountain Men and the Fur Trade, Frontier Military and Indian Wars, Outlaws and Lawmen of the Old West, Native American History and Ethnology, Exploration, Gold Rush, Railroad, Overland, Natural History and Travel. Books in Mystery include Detective Fiction, Golden Age, Espionage, Queen's Quorum, Sherlockiana, Artwork, Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, References and PBO. All of the books in our inventory are First Editions unless clearly stated otherwise. …
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