Sagas of the Evergreens the Story of the Economic, Social and Cultural Contribution of the Evergreen Trees and Forests of the World by Lamb, Frank H - 1935

W. W. Norton , 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. No jacket ... Green cloth covered boards w/ blind stamped / embossed trees .. Embossed title on spine .. No corner wears or bumps. Spine and rear board faded/sunned. Map endpapers. Reverse of frontis carries about 15 assorted signatures with 11/21/' '38 date top corner. Content is clean and w/o dog ears. Binding tight.

NY: Norton. [c1938]. First Edition. 364p. , illus. , bibli. , index. **"...and forests of the world." .

W.W. Norton & Co., inc, 1938. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1938. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Photography by Asahel Curtis. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Spine is sunned. No dust jacket. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 364 pages with a bibliography and index. Illustrated with numerous b/w photograps, charts and map endpages. . In Sagas of the Evergreens, there is unfolded to the reader in accurate but easy reading not only the different species, but everything up, down, and sideways, bearing on each group-and much indeed there is to learn about these guardians of the mountains. Ancestry antedating the formation of the Alps or Rockies, adaptability to tropics or arctic, forests or deserts, economic uses for lumber, for pulp, for gum, not to mention the comforting campfire, management of forest preserves, and fire protection. Although never intended as a "mountain climber's" book, the appearance of the names of John Muir… Read More