The Gorgeous Isle
by: Atherton, Gertrude / Coles Phillips (Illust.)

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Co. , 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rust colored cloth binding decorated in silver and gilt. Color illustrated end papers. Four color plates by C. Cole Phillips. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948) was an American author. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. Light smudge to blank prelim page, otherwise clean.