first edition Hardcover
1950 · Garden City, NJ
by Nadeau; Remi A.
Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 309pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth over boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Illustrated endsheets. Bumping to extremities. In a subtly toned dust jacket, with light chipping and creasing to edges. Ex-libris Irving Stone. The award-winning biographical novelist has left a signature on the front free endpaper. An account of the crucial search for water in the Southwest, written by the great-great-grandson of Remi Nadeau, a leader in California's development and the man who built the first four-story building in Los Angeles- the Nadeau Hotel.
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