Saunders, Charles Francis. Finding the Worth While in California: With Maps and Illustrations. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1916. First Edition. [11240]
Green publisher's cloth, gilt title to front & backstrip, 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches, clean. Adverts on the end papers & frontispiece. 229 clean pp. with index. Hinge at title page weak but not detached. The maps are single-page b/w drawings. All seven b/w illustrations are present; they are reproduced from photographs. Very good. Hardcover.
A fine clean copy of this first edition, first printing (November, 1916).
The adverts are for the California Limited, "The only train to Southern California via any Line exclusively for first-class travel"; Northern Pacific recommending Yellowstone National Park; and the Great Northern Railway, promoting Glacier National Park.
The author comments that his focus has been on the great outdoors of California, since American cities in the east and in the west are very similar. Chapters on the area of Los Angles; San Diego Country; Monterey; San José, San Francisco; North of San Francisco; Big Things of the Mountains; Summer Camp Life; Petroleum, Mines and Agriculture; and a chapter on Climate, Clothes and Cash.
