OS005003 Suttonhouse Publishers San Francisco, California, USA 1933 Second Edition Hard Cover Very Good Orange cloth on boards, black cloth on spine. Volume has light edgewear, is clean, pages are a glossy finished paper, making the book heavy. A novel set in Santa Barbara, California, (From the Foreword) featuring a carved wooden sculpture of Saint Barbara commissioned by the mercenary Cavalciotto, in the year 1432, in thanksgiving for his victories in a recent joust. The travels and travails of the figure are set out in the forward to the novel. The figure ends up in California and the novel proceeds from there. Hugo Ballin depicts Montecito-Santa Barbara as a Southern California Cote d'Azur of enervating dolce far niente. Ensconced in their sun-splashed mansions Ballin's characters pursue an easy agenda of dilettantism, sunbathing, dinner parties, drinking, and sexual intrigue while somewhere out there in the rest of America a Depression rages. From Wikipedia: "Hugo Ballin was born in New York City and studied at the Art Students League of New York. When the Wisconsin State Capital was built in the early 20th Century, Ballin created 26 murals for its interior. In 1917 he began working for Goldwyn Pictures in New Jersey as an art director and production designer and in 1921 he moved to Los Angeles at the request of Samuel Goldwyn. He was soon also directing, writing, and producing silent films for his own production company. When Hollywood began making talking pictures, Ballin left the film industry to return to his first career as a classically trained artist. He became one of the foremost muralists in the Los Angeles area, producing murals which still stand [2010] at landmark locations such as Griffith Observatory, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, LA County General Hospital (now known as Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center), and Burbank City Hall $40.00USD
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