Description: California the Beautiful by Western Artists And Authors. Camera Studies By California Artists With Selections in Prose and Verse From Western Writers compiled by Paul Elder published by Paul Elder & Company, San Francisco, California, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated with tipped-in Photographic Plates. This book is an anthology of verse & prose accompanying photos of California’s architecture & natural beauty. CONDITION: This book is in acceptable condition. The name of the original owner is written on the front endpaper. The cover is soiled, stained, worn, ripped, scuffed, and torn. Binding/spine deterioration. Binding was reinforced by previous owner with tape. The thin sheet of tissue that contains Edward Pollock’s poem (The Golden Gate) is no longer attached to the spine but it is present. Still, this old beautiful book has a lot of character. Please see pictures. THE PICTURES ARE TO BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. PLEASE REVIEW THEM FOR A BETTER IDEA OF CONDITION. CONTENTS: Evening (The Golden Gate) by Edward Pollock California, "Oh, thou, my best beloved!" by Charles Warren Stoddard A California Spring (Prose) by Margaret Collier Graham California,"Sea-born and goddess, blossom of the foam" by Ina Coolbrith California, "A sleeping beauty, hammock-swung" by Clarence Urmy "Dared I but say a prophecy” by Joaquin Miller San Diego Bay by Madge Morris La Jolla by Rose Hartwick Thorpe California of the South by Grace Elllery Channing Los Angeles by Ben Field "The land where summers never cease" by Edward Rowland Sill On New Year's Day (Prose) by George Wharton James The Cross on Rubidoux by George Clark The Changeless Year, Southern California by Charlotte Perkina Stetson The Gardens of the Sea by George Sterling Santa Barbara by William Henry Hudson In a Montecito Garden by Belle Sumner Angier An April Day on the Hope Ranch by Marshall Haley Monterey by Daniel O'Connell The Monterey Cypress (Prose) by Ernest Peixotto The Glory of California Scenery (Prose) by David Starr Jordan Carmel by George Sterling At Carmel by Ina Coolbrith San Joaquin (Prose) by Frank Norria The Meadow-Lark by James Henry MacLafferty As I Came Down Mount Tamalpais by Clarence Urmy San Francisco (From the Sea) by Bret Harte The Seal Rocks by Alexander McAdie The Sea-Gull by Herbert Bashford San Francisco, the Impossible (Prose) by Gelett Burgess The Angelus (Heard at the Mission Dolores, 1868) by Bret Harte San Francisco by Edward Robeson Taylor The Japanese Tea-Garden (Prose) by Ernest Peixotto Old Chinatown (Prose) by Will Irwin San Francisco (From the Hills) by Howard V. Sutherland Portsmouth Square (The Plaza). The Early Sixties (Prose) by Gertrude Atherton From the Berkeley Hills by Louise H. Webb Siesta by Ralph Erwin Gibbs Eucalyptus Trees (Prose) by Adeline Knapp California's Cup of Gold by Joaquin Miller Copa de Oro (California Poppy) by Ina Coolbrith The Green Knight, A Selection (The Redwoods) by Porter Garnett In the Sierras by Charles Warren Stoddard The Joy of the Hills by Edwin Markham "Afar the Bright Sierras Lie" by Joaquin Miller Song-Birds in Yo Semite (Prose) by Olive Harper Yosemite by Herman Scheffauer Yosemite Valley (Prose) by John Muir Trail Song by Harold Symmes The Sequoias by Louis Alexander Robertson The Giant Forest (Prose) by Stewart Edward White Lake Tahoe by Helen Hunt Jackson El Rio Sacramento by Lucius Harwood Foote Mendocino by Lillian H. Shuey The Music of the Pines by Warren Cheney Shasta (Quatrain) by John G. Jury Shasta by Charles Keeler ILLUSTRATIONS: Golden Gate, San Francisco (Frontispiece) Point Loma, San Diego (photo) San Diego Mission, San Diego (photo) The Torrey Pine, near La Jolla, San Diego (photo) San Antonio Peak (Old Baldy), Sierra Madre Mountains (photo) San Gabriel Mission, near Los Angeles (photo) Marengo Avenue, Pasadena (photo) Mount Rubidoux, Riverside (photo) San Bernardino Peak, from Smiley Heights, Redlands (photo) Banning Beach, Santa Catalina Island (photo) Mission Santa Barbara by Moonlight (photo) Live Oaks, Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara (photo) The House of the Four Winds, Monterey (photo) Monterey Cypress, Seventeen-Mile Drive, Monterey (photo) Ocean Cliffs, Seventeen-Mile Drive, Monterey (photo) The Sand-Dunes at Point Carmel, Carmel (photo) Kearny Avenue, Fresno (photo) Mount Tamalpais, near the Golden Gate(photo) Seal Rocks, San Francisco (photo) The Sea-Gulls, San Francisco Bay (photo) Mission Dolores, San Francisco (photo) Japanese Tea-Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (photo) In Chinatown, San Francisco (photo) Stevenson Memorial, Portsmouth Square, San Francisco (photo) Berkeley. Oaks, University Campus, Berkeley (photo) Eucalyptus Trees by a Roadside near San Mateo(photo) Fan Palms, Mission San Jose(photo) In the Redwoods, Bohemian Grove (photo) Yosemite Valley (photo) Half Dome in Winter, Yosemite Valley (photo) Tissack, the Great Half Dome, Yosemite Valley (photo) Yosemite Valley, a General View (photo) In the Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park(photo) Lake Tahoe and Mount Tallac (photo) Sacramento River, below Sacramento (photo) Castle Crags, the Upper Sacramento (photo) Mount Shasta, Siskiyou County (photo)
Price: 175 USD
Location: Claremont, California
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Signed By: N/A
Book Title: California the Beautiful
Signed: No
Book Series: Californiana
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Paul Elder & Company Publishers
Original Language: English
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 1911
Type: Picture Book
Format: Hardcover
Literary Movement: Naturalism
Language: English
Era: 1910s
Illustrator: various
Author: Stewart Edward White, Helen Hunt Jackson, Herman Scheffauer, Harold Symmes, Louis Alexander Robertson, Edwin Markham, Joaquin Miller, Olive Harper, Porter Garnett, Charles Warren Stoddard, Ralph Erwin Gibbs, Adeline Knapp, Joaquin Miller, Howard V. Sutherland, Gertrude Atherton, Ernest Peixotto, Will Irwin, Louise H. Webb, Gelett Burgess, Edward Robeson Taylor, Alexander McAdie, Herbert Bashford, James Henry MacLafferty, Clarence Urmy, Ina Coolbrith, Frank Norria, Bret Harte, David Starr Jordan, George Sterling, Daniel O'Connell, Ernest Peixotto, Belle Sumner Angier, Marshall Haley, George Sterling, William Henry Hudson, George Clark, Charlotte Perkina Stetson, Edward Rowland Sill, George Wharton James, Grace Elllery Channing, Ben Field, Madge Morris, Rose Hartwick Thorpe, Clarence Urmy, Joaquin Miller, Margaret Collier Graham, Ina Coolbrith, Edward Pollock, Charles Warren Stoddard, Lucius Harwood Foote, Lillian H. Shuey, Warren Cheney, John G. Jury, Charles Keeler, Paul Elder (Compiler)
Features: Illustrated, Tipped-in Photographic Plates, 1st Edition, Large Print
Genre: Antiquarian & Collectible, Art & Photography, History, Pictorial works, Poetry, Illustrated works, Anthology, Travel, Art & Culture, Photography Collection, American History, History of California, Nonfiction, Non-fiction, Landscape photography, Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Topic: California, Photography, Description and travel, nature, mountains, trees, natural beauty, forests, parks, natural habitat, architecture, landscapes, Santa Catalina Island, Mount Shasta, Siskiyou County, Sequoia National Park, Lake Tahoe, Sacramento, San Mateo, San Jose, John Muir woods, Yosemite Valley, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Carmel, Fresno, San Francisco Bay, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Riverside, Redlands, San Francisco, San Diego, La Jolla, Berkeley
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Personalization Instructions: N/A
