California: Its Products, Resources, Industries and Attractions. What it Offers the Immigrant, Homeseeker, Investor and Tourist by T. G. Daniells, editor - 1904

Sacramento:: W. W. Shannon, Superintendent State Printing,, 1904. First Edition. Paperback. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9 x 5 3/4 inches. 208 pp. Black-and-white photographic illustrations throughout, a few tables; text clean, unmarked. Pictorial wrappers, stapled, added clear mylar dust-jacket; binding square and tight, covers soiled and chipped with loss, cellophane tape repairs, the spine is mostly chipped away, covers hold on with old cellophane tape, rear cover and remnants of the spine now nearly entirely separated, but held in place with a new mylar dust-jacket. SCARCE. Good. Published by the California, Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission. The front cover boasts a reproduction of an allegorical oil painting "California" that depicts California as a comely virgin holding the fruits of the new region and accompanied by two domesticated grizzly bears. Contains 32 separate articles by various leading authorities holding forth on the subjects they know best, including Wm. E. Smythe on "The Triumph of Irrigation;" Dr. C. T. Deane on "The Oil Industry of California;" Charles Bundschu on "Viticulture in California;" David Starr Jordon on "The Fishes of California;" James D. Phelan on "Commerce and Commercial Relations of California;" and J. R. Knowland on "Past and Present of the Franciscan Missions of California;" with additional articles on Oranges, Olives, Forests, Lumber, and much more. SCARCE: no auction records found. REFERENCE: not in Cowan, A Bibliography of the History of California.