[Rarebooks] FS: Lummis, The Land of Sunshine, 1900

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Offered today: 

"California Babies" at the end is filled with photographic illustrations
of turn-of-the-twentieth-century children. Wow! 

LUMMIS, CHARLES FLETCHER (1859-1928), editor. 

_The Land of Sunshine: The Magazine of California and the West_, Volume
XII, No. 2, New Year, 1900. 

Los Angeles: The Land of Sunshine Publishing Co, 1900. 

8vo. 9 x 6 inches. [ads, viii], (71)-136, [ads, including "Commercial
Blue Book" for Los Angeles and Pasadena, xxviii] pp. Black-and-white
frontispiece painting "San Luis Was Thronged" drawn by L. Maynard Dixon,
black-and-white photographic illustrations throughout; text clean,
unmarked. Printed wrappers, stapled; binding square and tight. Fine. 

$ 45 

The contents for New Year 1900, include: "The Garden of Souls" a poem by
Dr. C. W. Doyle; "The Mission Graves" a poem by Nora May French; "One of
the Old Guard" by Lummis (illustrated); "To Carmen" a poem by C. P.
Holt; "A Mission Saint's Day in 1868" illustrated, by D. M. D.; "A
Fiesta at Mesa Grande" illustrated, by Constance Goddard Du Bois; "My
Brother's Keeper" illustrated, by Lummis; "A New Force" illustrated;
"Saving the Ranch" an illustrated story by T. S. Van Dyke; "Tin-A, a
Chinese story" by Sui Sin Fah; "The Desert Queen" a poem by Sharlot M.
Hall; "Pioneers of the Far West - Fray Zárate-Salmeron's Relacion, III";
regular features including "In the Lion's Den" by Lummis; "That Which is
Written" reviews by the editor; "The Landmarks Club"; as well as the
"Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League"; "The Pasadena Rose
Tournament" illustrated; "The Land We Love" illustrated; and "California
Babies" illustrated. 

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