Vermilion

New York, NY: Prentice-Hall Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1947. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The dust jacket has some light bumping, rubbing and beginning edge wear. The text pages are clean and bright. There is one small chip missing and a couple of small edge tears to the top spine end of the dust jacket. . "Idwal Jones (December 8, 1887 – November 14, 1964) was a Welsh-American novelist and non-fiction writer. Jones focused a lot of his writing on the beauty and population boom in California and the west. Jones was born in Merionethshire, Wales, to William W. Jones and Mary Catherine Hughes. He immigrated to New York in 1902. He studied mechanical engineering, which led to an interest in the California gold rush, and he moved to the state in 1911. He began his literary career writing book reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle, and later had his own columns in, The San Francisco Examiner "Rediscovering San Francisco" and "Passing By." He sold his first short story in the 1920s. He won a Newbery Medal Honor in 1937 for Whistler's Van." (from Wikipedia) .