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..

by George Wharton James

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1906. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo; 33 plates, 1 folding map, 1 double-page table inserted, numerous illustrations throughout text all after Carl Eytel; original beige cloth over blue cloth boards, gilt vignette on upper covers; the spines both a bit faded, and not quite uniform, the second volume with a mild dampstain at the lower spine, hinges of vol. II neatly reglued; a good set. With a long and interesting inscription

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