Romantic Cities of California.

New York:: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1939.. 4th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with dark blue text; owner's gift note on the front endpaper, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped.. about 9 inches tall by 7 inches wide . Index. illustrated endpapers. Description: Dust jacket art, endpapers, a color frontis, and several black and white illustrations by E H Suydam. (50 Great Western Illustrators, Suydam Number 9.) The publisher's blurb reads: ''A wholly delightful, informative and charming book, which expresses to perfection California as it was and as it is today (remember ''today'' means 1939). Here are San Diego, California first port of call; Los Angeles and the amazing contrasts in the city; the beaches, Long Beach and Laguna Beach; Pasadena and Hollywood; the lovely triangle of Ventura, Ojai, and Santa Paula; Santa Barbara and the mission; through the Valley of Gardens to Santa Maria, Lompoc and San Luis Obispo; Contra Costa; up the Redwood Highway to Ukiah and Eureka; Sacramento, Queen of the Golden Empire; the gold towns of Weaverville and Chico, Placerville, and Coloma, Auburn, Grass Valley, and Nevada City, the cities of the Santa Clara and San Joaquin valleys. All these points of interest Miss Hawthorne pictures in this book.''