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Sale 469: Americana - Travel - Cartography (#469) 12/15/2011 11:00 AM PST Closed
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Lot #11The Land of Little Rain

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Sale 469: Americana - Travel - Cartography (#469) 12/15/2011 11:00 AM PST Closed
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Description

Title:

The Land of Little Rain

Author:

Austin, Mary

Place Published:

Boston and New York

Publisher:

Houghton, Mifflin

Date Published:

1903

Description:

Frontispiece after E. Boyd Smith, line illustrations in margins and chapter titles. 8½x6¼, original cloth, pictorially stamped and gilt-lettered, top edge gilt. First Edition.

"These charming sketches of the desert and semi-desert country comprising the Owens Valley and the approaches to the great sink of Death Valley have become practically a classic" (Zamorano). Cowan p.24; Graff 114; Howes A400; Zamorano Eighty 2.

Condition:

Lightly rubbed at edges; name in ink written on front free endpaper, rear hinge cracked; very good.

Item#:

223022

Headline:

The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin 1st ed
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