Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. This paean to the high California desert consists of fourteen sketches based on personal observation following solitary sojourns tramping through desert trails and... More about THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. "As quoted by Lawrence Clark Powell, in his California Classics, bibliographer and historian Phil Townsend Hanna proclaimed Atherton’s Splendid Idle Forties as 'the finest stories ever..... More about THE SPLENDID IDLE FORTIES: Stories of Old California
Valencia, California: The Newhall Land and Farming Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition thus, an update and expansion of her earlier work, The Newhall Ranch (1958). Incorporated on the combined land holdings of railroad... More about A CALIFORNIA LEGEND: The Newhall Land and Farming Company
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the best titles in the Black's Beautiful Books series. Palmer's vibrant illustrations nicely compliment Austin's vivid descriptions of some of California's best natural scenery... More about CALIFORNIA: The Land of the Sun