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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 21, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 37.

The Pacific Coast by Pen and Camera

JUST now, many people are visiting the Pacific coast, from all parts of the world, and particularly from the various parts of the United States. Many of them are especially desirous of seeing the most interesting places, and of enjoying the finest scenery that may be afforded among the mountains and rivers of this great section of our continent.

Among the books that have been printed giving such information, none are superior, if indeed any are equal, to two volumes prepared by John H. Williams, the one entitled “Guardians of the Columbia,” and the other, “Yosemite and Its High Sierra.”

Mr. Williams has given his life to the study of the interesting places up and down the Pacific coast. He is an enthusiast over the beauties of nature that are afforded in our ever changing scenery. With his camera and his pen, he has described the most beautiful and the most interesting places; and with his trained abilities, he has given us, in the two volumes mentioned above, in the finest art that the best modern printers can produce, two rare volumes for the lovers of nature’s scenery.

Persons purchasing these volumes will without any question realize that they have secured some rare treasures. Our visitors from the East will have something very beautiful to show their friends, and the volumes will be helpful to them in refreshing their memories when they undertake to tell of some of the things they have seen while visiting among the mountains and along the rivers of this portion of the continent; while the resident of the Pacific coast will be glad to find in these books, pictured out and described, many scenes that he possibly may not be able to visit personally. Even if he has been able to see them, he will enjoy these volumes, because of the help they will give him in keeping the treasures of nature in mind.

“The Guardians of the Columbia” is furnished in three styles. The edition de luxe is $2.50, and the library edition is $1.50, with sixteen cents added for postage. The news stand edition on light paper is seventy-five cents, with eight cents extra for postage.

“Yosemite and Its High Sierra” also comes in three styles of binding, the edition de luxe at $2.50, the library edition $1.50, but the news stand edition is one dollar. Sixteen cents is the charge for postage on the first two styles, and eight cents on the news stand edition. Address the author and publisher, John H. Williams, at 424 Sheldon Building, San Francisco, California, or at Provident Building, Takoma, Washington.