THE GRAND COLORADO: THE STORY OF A RIVER AND ITS CANYONS
by Watkins, T.H. and Contributors
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
United States: American West Publishing Company, 1969. With a foreword by Wallace Stegner. B/W and color photographs throughout. Endpapers are topography map of the Grand Canyon. 310 pp. with index. Orange covers with gilt title on spine and gilt image of a driftwood horse on front. Missing DJ. Light wear to cover corners and edges, spine ends are bent and rubbed. Bookplate from previous owner adhered to title page. Interior pages are clean, tight. Book in VG/VG+ condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Photography by Philip Hyde. Size: Approx. 8 1/4 " x 11 1/4". Nature.
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- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007522
- Title
- THE GRAND COLORADO: THE STORY OF A RIVER AND ITS CANYONS
- Author
- Watkins, T.H. and Contributors
- Illustrator
- Photography by Philip Hyde
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- American West Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Colorado River, Western America, American History, Nature, Natural Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History; Western Americana;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 8 1/4 " x 11 1/4"
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bee Creek Books
Biblio member since 2010
Princeton, New Jersey
About Bee Creek Books
Welcome to Bee Creek Books! We specialize in rare and out of print books in a variety of subjects (fiction to fishing, the arts to agriculture), old government documents, rare periodicals, vintage journals, no longer printed reports and quarterlies, classic maps and charts, photos, and much more!
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- Tight
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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