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Denver: Powell Society Ltd., 1971. First Impression. Paperbound. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Demy octavo, [20cm/8inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 23. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Powell Society was incorporated in 1969 in order to promote the general study of the canyons of the American West, the study of the Colorado River Basin, and the study of John Wesley Powell and his work, and also to facilitate the publication of materials generated by these studies. Their official records, as collected by Dr. Henry W. Toll during his time as president of the society (1969-2008), are housed in University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections, Salt Lake City

Cincinnati : The Robert Clarke Company, 1900. Third Edition. Hardcover. In quite good condition./No dust jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed verdigris-green cloth sans dust jacket, pp. xv, 409, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Large folded map attached to rear free endpaper. Front hinge has been expertly bolstered with binder's tape. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1949. Revised Edition. In quite good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed ochre-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp.xi, 286, indexed. lightly penciled in first chapter. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. Second Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Demy octavo, [20cm/8inches], full gilt-embossed grayish-tweed cloth sans dust jacket, pp. xxi, 208, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Professor Richard A. Bartlett, taught history at Texas A & M University, and was a Professor of History at Florida State University from the mid 1950's until 1989. A prolific writer, he authored five nonfiction books during his teaching career, beginning with the award-winning Great Surveys of the American West, followed by The New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier, two books about Yellowstone; he co-authored a middle school history textbook, and edited Rolling Rivers: An Encyclopedia of American Rivers and The Guilded Age: America, 1864-1900. After retirement at age 69, he authored five additional books, including Troubled… Read More

Point Loma, California: Brian Wiersema, 2009. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full ebony-embossed maize-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp.140; 281. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. Brian Wiersema was a graduate of Point Loma High School, where he worked for the school paper, the Pointer, and was a pole vaulter for the track team. Brian went on to receive a BA from San Diego State University and a MA in Journalism from Northwestern University. He served the Air Force in Vietnam, navigating B-52 bombers. He wrote for San Diego newspapers including the Coast Dispatch and the San Diego Union and taught Journalism and Photography at Mira Costa College. Brian was an avid surfer, back packer, bicyclist, and gardener. In his final years, he became a painter, creating a 60-foot sea-based allegorical mural inspired by the teachings of Alcoholics Anonymous. An entrepreneurial spirit, he created the Reward… Read More

Yosemite National Park, California: Yosemite Natural History Association, 1961. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Yosemite National Park, California: Yosemite Natural History Association, 1960. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jackets. Octavos, [23cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers,. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Yosemite, California: Flying Spur Press , 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. In quite good condition./No dust jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full embossed Sequoia-green cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 100, indexed. The gilt on the front cover has been "rusticated." Illustrated with b-w halftones, caricatures &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Influential figures such as Galen Clark, clergyman Thomas Starr King and leading landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted were among those who urged Senator John Conness of California to try to preserve Yosemite. President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill on June 30, 1864 granting Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias to the State of California "for public use, resort and recreation," the two tracts "shall be inalienable for all time".This was the first time in history that a federal government had set aside scenic lands simply to protect them and to allow… Read More

Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris, 2003. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 79. Fully illustrated with b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... After graduation from college, Gruen moved back to New York City where he settled in Greenwich Village. He took jobs as a book buyer at Brentano's, a publicity director at Grove Press and a photographers' agent. Throughout his early years in New York, he aspired to be a composer and composed songs including settings of poetry by E. E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens and Rainer Maria Rilke. The songs were ultimately performed by Eleanor Steber and Patricia Neway. New Songs, a compilation of Gruen's work, was released in 1950 and was the first record issued by Elektra Records. He became friends with composer Virgil Thomson which inspired Gruen to contribute music reviews to the New York Herald… Read More

Cincinnati & New York: The Eclectic Press, 1888. Hardcover. In Fair Condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed cloth sans dust jacket, pp. , indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. After Frances Willard took over leadership in 1879, the WCTU became one of the largest and most influential women’s groups of the 19th century by expanding its platform to campaign for labor laws, prison reform and suffrage. With Willard’s death in 1898, the WCTU began to distance itself from feminist groups, instead focusing primarily on prohibition. Though its membership steadily declined following the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919, the WCTU continued to operate through the 20th century.

London: Oxford University Press, 1923. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Royal octavo, [26cm/10.25inches], full rouge-embossed light khaki-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 211. Fully illustrated with 19 colour and b-w halftones and 2 colour plates of Venetian watercolours by the American artist John Singer Sargent Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots. ... Neville Wilkerson, -(1869-1940)-, was educated at Harrow School and entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1889. He was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1890, promoted Lieutenant on 1 July 1896, and Captain on 1 April 1899. He served twice with his regiment in the Second Boer War, the second time from April 1902 when he was in command of reinforcements of 250 officers and men. They left Southampton in the troopship Dilwara on 15 April,[1] arriving in South Africa the following month. He retired from the army in 1907, although he returned to service in the… Read More