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New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1890. Hardcover. Good+/None. Light olive and ivy green cloth boards and decorations with gilt titling on front, rubbed at extremities and spine toned. Front hinge is broken but attached. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket. 8vo. 5.5 x 8 inches. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents and list illustrations: 20 vintage B&W photographs, including Mt. Hood as frontis and a map of the Pacific Slope. 'The present volume is an attempt to give a general and impartial view of the whole Pacific Coast, from San Diego to Sitka.... I have found the scenery so much grander and the climate so much more delightful and exhilarating on the western side of our continent than on the eastern; and climate and scenery, in my opinion, make up fully one-half of human happiness.' (-from the Preface).… Read More

hansebooks, 2020. Paperback. New. 368 pages. 8.50x5.99x0.83 inches.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. 309pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Green cloth with gilt titles on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Bookplate on the front pastedown with offsetting to the facing page. Illustrated with black and white views. Early western travel narrative by the noted music critic. Henry Theophilus Finck (1854-1926) was an American music critic and author. Among "the most prolific and influential critics of his day", he was chief classical music critic of both the New York Evening Post and The Nation from 1881 to 1924.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1891. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 6". Not Stated. The very scarce to see first U.K. edition of Henry T. Finck's travel work on his tour of the American West Coast, complete with scenic plates. The very scarce first U.K. edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one map, and nineteen plates.Collated, complete. A topographical work following the author's travelling across the Pacific Coast, a wonderful look at the scenery of the coast towards the end of the nineteenth century, when the areas had boomed in popularity. With interesting passages on Yosemite, San Francisco's Chinatown, Lake Tahoe, Yellowstone Park, and more. Written by Henry Theophilus Finck, a prolific and respected music critic who wrote for the 'New York Evening Post' and 'The Nation'.Instructional label, for the Potter's Subscription Library Liverpool, to the head of the front board. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, a little worn. Institutional label to… Read More