mckinney dwight (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Original publisher's gray-brown paper wrappers with staple binding. Front cover features black lettering and an illustration of Henery peering into a cut-out window revealing a landscape illustration behind it. 11" x 8 3/4." Thirty-four pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations showing different places in California, complete. Pages are clean and intact overall but first few pages (especially the first page) and bottom edges of most pages have moisture damage and possible mold damage. The rest of the pages are relatively more clean and intact but have light age toning throughout and bumping and wrinkling at corners. Covers are clean and intact overall but have a closed tear at bottom edge of cut-out window on front, about 3 1/2" slit on back with tape repair, splitting along spine, and bumping, chipping, and small closed tears at corners and edges. A Good copy. Dwight F. McKinney's humorous character of Henery returns, this time to show readers around the state of California. Henery goes on a grand tour of Califiornia with his wife, "Ma." Henery and other people in the book make all sorts of comedic remarks as they see different places in California. The book is divided into brief sections or chapters with the following titles: "Henery Arrives in California," "Henery Takes the Coast Line to San Francisco," "Henery Sees the Sights of San Francisco," "Henery Takes the Bay and Mt. Tamalpais Trip," "Henery Visits Yosemite," "Henery Advises Conceited People to See the Big Trees," "Henery Is on a Rubber Neck Wagon in Los Angeles," "Henery Learns About Flowers," "Henery Takes the Mt. Lowe Trip," "Henery Sees Catalina," "Henery Visits the Ostrich Farm," "Henery Takes in the Alligator Farm," "Henery Talks About Bees," "Henery Goes to a Funeral," "Henery Takes the Old Mission-Balloon Route Trip," "Henery Sees Redlands, Riverside, San Bernardino," "Henery Goes to a State Society Reunion and Visits the Moving Picture Studios on the Topango Canyon Trip," "Henery Sees San Diego and Tia Juana," "Henery Finds California a Mecca for Grass Widows," and "Henery Is Home Again and Studying Philosophy.".

First edition. 8 1/2" x 11" in original pictorial die-cut gray over-sized wrappers, printed in black and gilt. Illustrations. Stapled. Contents. Illustrations. A well-illustrated promotional booklet advertising California's popular scenic attractions and tours, with emphasis on Southern California. Includes Henry's trip to Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees. Brief travelogues spiced with early twentieth-century humor of the traveling salesman variety. "'Be sure and take the Big Tree Trip on your way out of the valley,' says a man I met in camp. 'I came in that way. The folders say it's great.' 'Why do you take the folder's word for it when you went over the trip yourself?' says I. 'Well,' says he, 'I met [a] blonde on the stage and I had to read up on the folder when the trip was over to find out what I should have seen.' We took the man's advice and started one morning on the big tree trip" (p. 11). Light tanning to pages along with Light wear and chipping to over-sized wrappers. Very good.

First edition. Oblong quarto. 34 pp. with photographic illustrations on every verso and Humorous text on every recto. Publisher's pictorial brown wrappers with a viewoing window on front. Some edge wear to top front corner of wrapprs, old and slight waviness but no sign of water damage. A very fgood copy.