JAMES S. COPLEY PRESENTATION COPY - Pourade GOLD IN THE SUN - 1st ed. RARE in DJ

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(California / Western Americana / James S. Copley / San Diego) Pourade, Richard F. GOLD IN THE SUN. Heavily illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps (some color). San Diego, CA: Union-Tribune Publishing Co., 1965.
First edition
. Quarto.
Fifth volume in the History of San Diego commissioned by James S. Copley, this is a PRESENTATION COPY FROM JAMES S. COPLEY, with his presentation bookplate
affixed to the front flyleaf.
James Strohn Copley (1916–1973) was a noted journalist and newspaper publisher who published the San Diego Union and the San Diego Evening Tribune, both later merged into The San Diego Union-Tribune in 1992
, from 1947 until his death in 1973. This is an
uncommon FIRST edition PRESENTATION copy of this lively history of Southern California from the turn of the last century to the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, including a supplement depicting the Spanish-Colonial architecture of the Panama-California Exposition and its subsequent influence throughout California
. Bound in the publisher's dark blue cloth covered boards. Contents clean and bright. Boards square and tight.
In the vividly illustrated dust jacket
, which is just a bit rubbed, with a hint of edgewear and a short closed tear along the bottom of the front fold.
SCARCE PRESENTATION COPY!
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