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Published by Institute of Metals, Institute of Metals, 1950
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
hardcover. B031321; 164 pp, small missing pieces; fully illustrated; discolored front & back end pages; prev. owner's inscription hardcover; good contents & covers; dustjacket has edge tears & Institute of Metals Monograph and Report Series No. 8.
Published by Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1909
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. J.N. Le Conte, John Andrew & Son, G.K. Gilbert, J.S. Hutchinson, Glenn Allen, C.W. Pohlmann, James Rennie, Eva Channing, Ralph Dyer, Mary Randall, Dr. Edward Gray (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1909. First Edition. January, 1909 Issue [Vol VII, No. 1]. Octavo, staple and circuit-bound printed wrappers, 84 numbered pp. + ads + numerous unnumbered photographic plates. Standard fold-over of the cover edges due to the circuit binding process used by the SC at that time; signature of later member and contributor Elliot sawyer on contents page (see scan); otherwise, really quite fine, with immaculate contents. See all scans. The feature article is "The High Mountain Route Between Yosemite and the King's River Canon (sic, with a tilde over the "n"), by J.N. Le Conte, who has provided as well a multi-foldout sketch map of that route. Other articles include "With the Sierra Club in the Kern Canon (sic)" (Marion R. Parsons), Down the Kern-Kaweah (George P. Putnam), and "An August Outing in the Upper Merced Canon (sic)" (S.L. Foster. Illustrated with plenty of spectacular black-and-white glossy photographic plates as always with the Bulletin, the lion's share here by the great J.N. Le Conte, but with substantial contributions as well from John Andrew & Son, G.K. Gilbert, J.S. Hutchinson, Glenn Allen, C.W. Pohlmann, James Rennie, Eva Channing, Ralph Dyer, Mary Randall, and Dr. Edward Gray. Standard departments as well. SC-2.