Catalog / NFB-1015

The Land of Little Rain

Sierra Edition

Mary Austin — Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, n.d., ca. 1917 or later

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 Eighty)

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Bibliographic Description

Duodecimo, 7 inches. Mint green cloth, pictorial dark green design to front board and title to spine. In original printed brown paper dust jacket, advertising Austin's title The Ford which was published in 1917. xi + 281 pp.

Condition

Cloth bright and square; boards clean with negligible wear; endpapers with tanning from contact with acidic jacket. Text block clean and sound. Jacket with moderate edge chipping along top edge, loss at head of spine, one small hole at spine center; intact and presentable. Near Fine. Original dust jacket present, graded Good.

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