Hell’s Canyon: [or, seeing Idaho through a scrap book]. A story of the deepest canyon on the North American continent, together with historical sketches of Idaho. . . .
by [IDAHO]. BAILEY, Robert G
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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About This Item
Lewiston, ID: Robert G. Bailey, Printing Co., 1943. Tall 8vo. 575, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., w/ 100s of photo and text illustrations throughout, colour-illustrated sheet music art for My Home in Idaho for front endpapers, pictorial map on rear endpapers. Red publisher’s cloth, pictorial map of Idaho on front cover (minor soiling, faint tidemark to fore-edge of front cover, slightly cocked), w/ d.j. pictorial map on front cover of Idaho, photo illustration back cover (wear, edgewear, minor chipping, couple minor tears, soiling), still VG-/VG- copy, signed & numbered, together with [4] pp. Reviews of Hell’s Canyon laid-in. First edition, signed & numbered (1177), of this excellent work filled with historical notes, poetry, and personal memoirs of travel to Yellowstone from Idaho, bridges spanning the Snake River, Freemasonry in Idaho, gold mining, hunting Grizzly Bears, a substantial section on the Nez Perce Indians and their legends, Chief Joseph, as well as the logging and forestry practices of the Potlatch Forests, Inc. Very scarce in original dustjacket.
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- Bookseller
- Zephyr Used & Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55732
- Title
- Hell’s Canyon: [or, seeing Idaho through a scrap book]. A story of the deepest canyon on the North American continent, together with historical sketches of Idaho. . . .
- Author
- [IDAHO]. BAILEY, Robert G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Robert G. Bailey, Printing Co.,
- Place of Publication
- Lewiston, ID:
- Date Published
- 1943.
- Keywords
- Hell’s Canyon, Snake River, Idaho, Native Americans, American Indians, Forestry, Logging, Western Americana, Pacific Northwest, Signed Copies, Signed Firsts, Poetry, Memoirs, Yellowstone, Robert G. Bailey
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