The Land of Little Rain
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. 1st Edition. Publisher's Cloth Binding. Large 8vo. (8 4/8 x 6 2/8 inches). Half-title, vignette title-page. Frontispiece and 2 plates, numerous marginal illustrations in the text by E. Boyd Smith. Original publisher's olive pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others deckled. First edition. An early campaigner for preserving the natural landscape and culture of the American Southwest, and the early years of her disastrous marriage, in which she and her husband lived in a number of small desert towns, provided the background for this her first book, 'The Land of Little Rain'. Essentially a collection of fourteen sketches about the natural world of the desert and the people and beliefs it nurtured. '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 2. Very Good. Item #9235
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