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Title: Ten volumes written or published by George Wharton James Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: 10 volumes. Some illustrated. Various bindings and editions. Two volumes are inscribed by the author. Included is a selection of works by James on a variety of subjects, including basket weaving, the power of memory, and how to cure snake bites. George Wharton James was an American popular lecturer, photographer, journalist and editor. Characteristics of his writing included romanticism, an enthusiasm for natural environments, idealization of aboriginal lifeways, and promotion of health fads. He also founded the Anti-Whispering Society, "devoted to the suppression of talking audiences, peanut fiends, and crying babies." Includes: James, George Wharton, editor. The California Birthday Book. Prose and Poetical Selections from the Writings of California Authors with a Brief Biographical Sketch of Each. Edited, arranged, and with an introduction by George Wharton James (12mo), decorative cloth. First Edition. Los Angeles,, Arroyo Guild Press., 1909. James, George Wharton. Indians of the Painted Desert Region Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais. (8vo), decorative cloth. Areas of dampstaining to boards and corners of preliminary pages.First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, 1903. James, George WhartonPractical Basket Making. Illustrated from photographs and text illustrations. (8vo), blue cloth stamped in gilt. Sixth Edition, Enlarged. Cambridge. Mass: J.L. Hammett Company, [1916]. James, George Wharton. Quit Your Worrying! (8vo), green cloth stamped in gilt. Inscribed by the author on the half title. First Edition. Pasadena: The Radiant Life Press, 1916. James, George Wharton. The Rattlesnake Bite and How to Cure It. 12pp. 14x8 cm (5½x3¼), pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Pasadena, [c.1905?]. James, George Wharton. The Story of Scraggles. With photographic frontispiece and 5 illustrated plates. (8vo), illustrated cloth. Inscribed by the author at the half-title. First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1906. James, George Wharton. Your Memory!: A Delightful and Profitable Servant. 28 pp. (12mo), printed wrappers. A chapter from "Delight and power in speech" by L.G. Nattkemper and G.W. James. Scarce. Pasadena: Radiant Life Press, [1919]. McCrackin, Josephine Clifford. The Woman Who Lost Him and Tales of the Army Frontier. With an introduction by Ambrose Bierce. Illustrated from photographic plates. (8vo), original cloth. Some dampstaining to plate margins and preliminary pages. First Edition. Pasadena: George Wharton James 1913. Palou, Francisco. Life and Apostolic Labors of the Venerable Father Junipero Serra, Founder of the Franciscan Missions of California. Introduction and Notes by George Wharton James Translated by C. Scott Williams Illustrated with a few plates; folding map not present. With the decorative bookplate of Carl Sumner Knopf. (8vo), three quarter cloth and decorative boards, spine label lettered in gilt. Pasadena: George Wharton James 1913. Plummer, Charles Griffin. Gun-Grabbing Johnny. Numerous plates illustrated from photographs. (8vo), original decorative cloth. Dampstaining to front boards and preliminary pages. First Edition. Pasadena: Radiant Life Press, 1923. James, George Wharton Lot Amendments Condition: Varying degrees of general wear; all volumes very good. Item number: 288204