Description
The first edition, first printing of Utah: The Land of Blossoming Valleys, part of the “See America First” series.
Octavo, xix, 371pp. Brown cloth, title and illustration embossed with gilt, decorative cover in pink, green and gold. Stated “First Impression, April, 1922” on the copyright page. Top edge gilt. Solid text block, a fine example. This work is complete with a frontispiece portrait, 56 illustrated plates (8 color plates, all with tissue covers), and a fold-out map of the State of Utah. Includes the publisher’s scarce dust jacket, small nick along front cover, spot of wear along heel of spine, a bright, near fine example. Free of marks or notations, a bright, attractive example.
In 1914, the Page Company of Boston began publishing a series of travel books intended to capitalize on the growing domestic travel market in the United States. The published volumes represent one of the most comprehensive series of American national travel history between 1880 and 1940. Over the course of the series publication between 1912 and 1931 twenty-one books were released that spanned a wide geographic range. These included books covering New England, New York, California, Texas, Arizona, Oregon, Florida, Colorado, Alaska, New Mexico, Virginia, Utah, Maine and Ohio as well as British Columbia and the Panama Canal. The series was officially launched by George Wharton James with his publication “California, Romantic and Beautiful”. (History Archive, Sabalico, 2025)
