Title: The Land of Little Rain Author: Austin, Mary Place: Boston Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Date: 1903 Description: Frontispiece after E. Boyd Smith, line illustrations in margins and chapter titles. (8vo) original cloth, pictorially stamped and gilt-lettered, top edge gilt. First Edition. Second issue, with publisher's "Note on the Illustrations" printed in black ink and bound in rather than in brown ink and tipped-in. "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. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends frayed, light wear, bookplate; separation in gutter at frontispiece; very good. Item number: 272575a
Title: The Land of Little Rain Author: Austin, Mary Place: Boston Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Date: 1903 Description: Frontispiece after E. Boyd Smith, line illustrations in margins and chapter titles. (8vo) original cloth, pictorially stamped and gilt-lettered, top edge gilt. First Edition. Second issue, with publisher's "Note on the Illustrations" printed in black ink and bound in rather than in brown ink and tipped-in. "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. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends frayed, light wear, bookplate; separation in gutter at frontispiece; very good. Item number: 272575a
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