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Tall 8vo. xiii, [5], 202 pp. Gold-coloured cloth, gilt lettering on spine (slight starting to inner hinge), w/ d.j. (minor sunning to fore-edges & spine), still VG/VG copy. First edition of this fascinating history of the impact of victims of tuberculosis, asthma, rheumatism, and other diseases moving to southern California for "the cure," which in turn attracted more "quacks" to the West than any other section of the country, and set off a land and building boom.…