In & Around The Grand Canyon (pasadena Edition) The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+. 1900. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This edition is limited to 500 signed and numbered copies. This is copy #17. This book is half leather (spine and corners are leather covered) with a pinkish linen cloth on front and rear covers. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued thus without a dust jacket. The spine joints of the book covers have w and rubbing, and there is rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book cover as well. The spine of the book has a two+ inch spot of darkening to the the leather. There is some foxing to the linen cloth on the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the first free page, and another owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page. "George Wharton James (27 September 1858 – 8 November 1923) was an American popular lecturer, photographer, journalist and editor. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he emigrated to the United States as a young man after being ordained as a Methodist minister. He served in parishes in Nevada and Southern California, gradually beginning his journalism and writing career. An editor of two magazines, he also wrote more than 40 books and many articles and pamphlets on California and the American Southwest. " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author .