Name/Title
"OUT WEST," AUGUST 1902Entry/Object ID
2003.194.1.2Description
Color: Blue; White
"Out West," Volume 17, Number 2, August 1902, edited by Charles F. Lummis and published by Out West Company, Los Angeles and San Francisco. At the top of the front cover is the date and volume and number, as well as a note that the magazine was "FORMERLY 'LAND OF SUNSHINE'." Below this is the motto "The Right Hand of the Continent." Under this is the title and a shield with another motto "THE NATION BACK OF US, THE WORLD IN FRONT" with a classical image of a male and female figure pointing toward the sun rising in the horizon. A field at the bottom right reads "A MAGAZINE OF / THE OLD / PACIFIC / AND THE NEW / EDITED BY / CHAS. F. LUMMIS" and a mountain lion is below the shield. At the bottom are the copyright date, price for an issue and yearly subscription and the office addresses of the publisher in Los Angeles and San Francisco. On the spine is the title, volume and number, and the date. Contents include articles on California places, preservation of history and the Indians of the state; material on western America; original poems and stories; and illustrations. There are also many advertisements throughout. Contributors include Lummis, Mary Austin, and Professor Harold W. Fairbanks. With cover and page brittleness; cover creases; surface soiling; page yellowing; flaking of page and cover edges; losses to the cover; fingerprints and small stains to the cover; and some tears, the condition is fair.Lexicon
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Three-dimensional, Periodicals, Out West Company, California--Description and travel, Poetry, American, Literature, American