Mesa, Canon and Pueblo, Our Wonderland of the Southwest-Its Marvels of Nature-Its Pageant of the Earth Buildings-Its Strange Peoples-Its Centuried Romance
New York; (1925): The Century Co. First Edition. Octavo. Item #024188
Frontispiece, inscribed and signed by the author to Harry Noyes Pratt (1879-1944). This story deals with the million square miles of territory of which New Mexico and Arizona form the center. Lummis had devoted the better part of his life to seeing it and studying it. He was knighted by the King of Spain. This is basically a travel book of wonders, dealing with portion of our country, the strange civilization of the pre-historic southwestern Indians; of a natural bridge that is sixty times as big as Virginia's famous natural bridge; of six-story fortress homes for three thousand people built before Columbus; and of the 100,000 areas of giant pine trees which became trunks of agate and jasper. It contains over 100 illustrations. Pratt was a California author who served as editor of The Overland Monthly. He was also art critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, and curator and/or director of both the Haggin Museum in Stockton and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Pratt wrote poetry and short stories for numerous magazines and anthologies, and an operetta. A fine bright copy bound in brown pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in black and gilt, spine lettering black, in a pictorial dust jacket which has a piece torn away from the bottom edge of the front panel and a few chips to the head of jacket. A very nice copy.
Price: $700.00