The 1910 Trip of the H.M.M.B.A. To California and the Pacific Coast
San Francisco: Press of Bolte and Braden Co., 1911. First Edition. Quarto. Item #023928
377 pp. (5) publisher's ads, illustrated with photographic images. H.M.M.B.A. The Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, which was an organization formed in Chicago in 1879 for leading hotel professionals in the United States. This book was written about the trip made from those business men. Invitations were sent to those leading men of the Association to visit Southern California which they all accepted. San Fransico was still cleaning up their city afterr the big earth quake so Southern California was the associations new destination. The author describes every city they visited in detail with photgraphs of their stops. Bound in brown cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, no owner's names or bookplates. A very nice sharp cornered copy.
Price: $145.00