Buy this book on-line Scammon, Lawrence Norris : Sierra Country[ca. 1929].
Lithograph measuring 3 x 2 1/4 inches (sheet size: 7 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches). Signed and titled in pencil under image. Very good, a few diagonal creases lower left, in margin and also over the image. Edition unknown; probably less than 50. Born in San Francisco, on October 26, 1872, Lawrence Norris Scammon's father had been the captain of a whaling vessel which came around the Horn to California in the 1850s. After graduating from UC Berkeley, the younger Scammon taught at that school at the turn of the century. He studied art at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute in 1898-99. Most of his sketching was done around the hills of Oakland where he lived most of his life on Buena Vista Avenue. He taught privately and was a designer for Roberts Manufacturing Company in San Francisco. Scammon died in Oakland on Oct. 12, 1947. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Scammon, Lawrence Norris : Sierra Country. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, fine bindings, antiquarian books, incunabula and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |