(#168523) A Chautauqua assembly under the pines in Yosemite National Park by George Wharton James ... For particulars about the Foresta Assembly for 1918 write to 625 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. FORESTA ASSEMBLY.

A Chautauqua assembly under the pines in Yosemite National Park by George Wharton James ... For particulars about the Foresta Assembly for 1918 write to 625 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. [San Francisco: Printed by San Francisco News Letter Press], n.d. [1918]. 24 cm, pp. [1-3] 4-15 [16], 14 illustrations, self wrappers, stapled. First edition. Advertises the forthcoming 1918 Foresta Assembly and reprints a magazine article by James describing the 1917 Assembly. For an account of the artists' colony at Foresta in Yosemite National Park see Henry Meade Bland, "Foresta and its Assembly," Overland Monthly, LXX (December 1917), 516-528. "An entire chapter of Shirley Sargent's book, Yosemite's Rustic Outpost: Foresta/ Big Meadow (Yosemite: Flying Spur Press, 1983) is devoted to this failed attempt at cultural commerce." - Larson, Controversial James: an Essay on the Life and Work of George Wharton James, p. 90. Lacks last leaf of text(pages 19/20), old horizontal mail folds, a good copy. Provenance: Bancroft Library, Farquhar Papers duplicate. (#168523).

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