Buy this book on-line Wells, Harry L : CaliforniaHarry L. Wells, Los Angeles, CA
Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine with an impressed border decoration around the title. No date, circa 1929. 5" x 7 1/4." 125 unnumbered pages, complete. 104 black and white plates, complete. Former ownership inscription written in black ink on front free endpaper: "To Uncle Bish, from, Bill, Christmas 1931." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. A Fine copy. Harry Laurenz Wells (1854-1940) was an American author, poet, and editor. In addition to poems and prose, Wells also wrote on topical subjects such as local histories of the West Coast. Most of the book is a visual tour expressed through the plates with their accompanying captions, although there are excerpts on the landing of the Spanish explorers in California and how the state got its name; California missions; and California's mountains, forests, and lakes. The tour begins in southern California, progresses to Monterey and the central coast, and finally concludes in northern California. The following are some of the subjects shown in the photographs: a facsimile of a painting showing explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landing in California; Old Town, San Diego; La Jolla sea caves; the coast off of La Jolla; La Jolla Country Club; Balboa Park; San Diego's city skyline; Mission Beach, San Diego; El Cortez Hotel; naval ships in San Diego Bay; Coronado Hotel; U. S. Grant Hotel; Point Loma; Cariso Gorge; Torrey Pines; Long Beach; yucca plants in bloom in a desert landscape in southern California; General Sherman tree; El Camino Real; Los Angeles City Hall; Exposition Garden; a scene from the 1932 X Olympiad in the LA Coliseum; LA Elks Club; Hollywood Boulevard at night; Grauman's Chinese Theater; Santa Maria Inn; Pershing Square and Biltmore Hotel; Avalon, Catalina Island; Lake Arrowhead; San Fernando Memory Garden; Hollywood Bowl; Salton Sea; Mt. Rubidoux; President Theodore Roosevelt standing with a group of men in the Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park; a trolley line up Mt. Lowe; Pasadena City Hall; Huntington Library; Pasadena's Rose Bowl; Mt. Wilson observatory; a scene from the Pasadena Rose Festival; San Gabriel Playhouse; Arroyo Seco Bridge; a scene of orange trees with mountains Old Baldy and San Jacinto in the background; a grove of Joshua trees; Santa Barbara Channel; Santa Barbara Harbor; Morro Rock; Casino Amusement Park in Santa Cruz; San Luis Mountain and Bishop Peak in San Luis Obispo; Monterey cypresses off of Seventeen-Mile Drive; orchards in bloom in the Santa Clara Valley; San Francisco's Embarcadero; Chinatown, San Francisco; Japanese Tea Garden; San Francisco Civic Center; Cliff House and Seal Rocks; Ocean Beach, San Francisco; Mission Dolores; Oakland; Berkeley Bowl; Lake Merritt, Oakland; a field of California poppies; Yosemite Falls; American River Canyon; Donner Lake; Muir Woods and Mt. Tamalpais; California Redwood Park; Feather River Canyon; Castle Craggs; Carmel Mission; Sacramento Memorial Auditorium; California State Capitol; Carquinez Straits Bridge; Modoc Lava Beds; Mission Santa Barbara; San Francisco Bay; Mt. Lassen; "The Old Man's Face" in Gaviota Pass; Lake Tahoe; Sutter's Fort; Death Valley; Mission San Juan Capitstrano; a scene of desert flowers near LA; and Mt. Shasta.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Wells, Harry L : California. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including fine bindings, out-of-print books, libri antichi, out of print books and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |