Romantic Cities of California by Hawthorne, Hildegarde - 1943

Horney Press, 2007-03-15. Paperback. Used:Good.

New York, NY: D. Appleton-Century, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. E. H. Suydam. 456 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. Good, price clipped, dust jacket. "San Diego California, Christmas 1939" written on half-title page. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

Appleton-Century, 1939. Book. Illus. by Suydam. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Bookplate. No jacket. .

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1943. 456 pp. 98 black & white illustrations. Brown burlap board are scuffed with rubbed edges, dime-sized hole on front. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Prior owner name and doodle on fep. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Suydam, E. H. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Crane & Co., 1908. 2nd edition (?) . Soft cover. VG. 8vo. Paper, bound with ribbon; edges a bit tattered

D. Appleton-Century. 1939. Hardback. Good. Light shelf wear. Spine lettering a bit faded.. California cities in the 1930s. There are illustrations by E. H. Suydam.

NY: D. Appleton-Century. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Gilt titles on spine worn, page tops . soiled. Jacket price-clipped, toned, chipped with ½” x 1” piece missing . from bottom of spine.. 1939. First Printing. Hardcover. Light brown buckram. xvii, 456 pages. Color frontispiece, black and white endpapers and illustrations, index. A statewide 1930s trip through the cities and regions of California lavishly illustrated by renowned regional artist E. H. Suydam. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts., 1939. Fourth printing.. Tan cloth, gilt spine title, blue cover title, pictorial endpapers. . very good plus, tight and unmarked, in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.. 23.3x17 cm.. Illustrated by E. H. Suydam.. A nicely illustrated tour through mid-century California. weight: 2.4 lb. Color frontis, numerous illustrations.

D. Appleton-Century Company Inc, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. . First ed. SIGNED by author on half-title. Jacket in mylar, minor shelf wear, some dust staining to back of jacket ONLY. No rips, overall VG. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

New York:: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1939.. 4th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with dark blue text; owner's gift note on the front endpaper, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped.. about 9 inches tall by 7 inches wide . Index. illustrated endpapers. Description: Dust jacket art, endpapers, a color frontis, and several black and white illustrations by E H Suydam. (50 Great Western Illustrators, Suydam Number 9.) The publisher's blurb reads: ''A wholly delightful, informative and charming book, which expresses to perfection California as it was and as it is today (remember ''today'' means 1939). Here are San Diego, California first port of call; Los Angeles and the amazing contrasts in the city; the beaches, Long Beach and Laguna Beach; Pasadena and Hollywood; the lovely triangle of Ventura, Ojai, and Santa Paula; Santa Barbara and the mission; through the Valley of Gardens to Santa Maria, Lompoc and San Luis Obispo; Contra… Read More