Beschreibung:

JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON. In and Around the Grand Canyon. Boston, 1900 -- JAMES. The Story of Scraggles. Boston, 1906 -- JAMES. Indian Basketry...third edition. New York, 1903 -- JAMES. The Wonders of the Colorado Desert. Boston, 1906. 2 volumes -- JAMES. The Indians of the Painted Desert Region. Boston, 1907 -- JAMES. What the White Race May Learn from the Indian. Chicago, 1908 -- JAMES. Through Ramona's Country. Boston, 1909 -- JAMES. Heroes of California. Boston, 1910 -- JAMES. The Grand Canyon of Arizona. How to See It. Boston, 1910 -- JAMES. Francisco Palou's Life and Apostolic Labors of the Venerable Father Junipero Serra. Pasadena, 1913. Not inscribed -- JAMES. Indian Blankets. Chicago, 1914 -- JAMES. California. Boston, 1914. Together 13 volumes, various sizes (8vo and 4to), all rebound in similar (some matching) mostly three quarter green morocco, spines elaborately gilt, t.e.g., spines faded. Mostly FIRST EDITIONS, ALL PRESENTATION COPIES (except one noted above), each volume inscribed by James to Mrs. Josephine Goodyear on preliminary leaf bound in each volume. Bookplates of F.H. Goodyear. George Wharton James (1858-1923) was born in England, went to Nevada as a young Methodist circuit-riding minister and later to a pastorate in Long Beach. Ousted from the Church after a scandalous divorce, he became a popular public lecturer on social issues, on his own philosophy, and on the Western scene. He placed particular stress on the beauties of the desert, which he helped to popularize by declaring that it was a region to inspire one to higher and nobler things. His most well known and useful books are on Indian blankets and basketry. (13)