David Bower Editor (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Collectible - Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. Abridged Version, First Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. VINTAGE 1968, Edition. Illustrated soft cover/VG; strong & sound w/light rubs & trace soiling to edges, faint creasing to lower front corner & small soil spot to front. Map to rear. Record of 1st American ascent of Mt. Everest, 1963. 160 pgs, color photos, in 16 chapters. Led by Swiss-born explorer, film-maker & mountaineer Norman G. Dyhrenfurth. Scientific research expedition sponsored by Nat'l Geographic. The team was academically brilliant . 5 members w/doctorates & 8 holding masters degrees. May 22nd, 1963. Luther G. Jerstad & Barry Bishop reached the summit of the South East Ridge summit, and Will Usoeld & Tom Hornbein the summit of the West Ridge. This is the account of scaling of the latter. Text by physician Hornbein; photos by Dyhrenfurth. The team was honored at the White House by President Kennedy, and awarded the Nat'l Georgraphic Society's Hubbard Metal. Norman G. Dyhrenfurth (Photographer) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, 2nd Printing, 1970. Text/NEW, showing margin discoloration and w/one check mark to Contents page. Softcover/VG; sound but tired w/edge & surface wear.Vintage 1970, First Edition, 2nd Printing. Anthology of essays presented at Sierra Club Wilderness Conferences. Published half-century past in 1969. Review of both successes in environmental preservation & that which remains of concern. 366 pgs, 34 essays in 3 parts: Part I, The Problem of Wilderness Preservation; II, The Values that Wilderness Preservation Seeks to Preserve; and III, The Program & Outlook for Wilderness Preservation. The article check marked to Contents page is William E. Siri's essay "Wilderness & Man in 2065".…

Hardcover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Thus. Text/NEW & Bright. EXHIBIT FORMAT SERIES. Collectible, Vintage 1964, Sierra Club First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed green linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG, strong & sound w/nips, chips to upper/lower edges; under mylar. History of a land that was once was. Text from Scottish-American naturalist & co-founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir (1838 - 1914), w/76 color plates, taken near a century later, by Ricard Kauffman (1916 - 1998), and, edited with an elucidating Forward by David Bower (1912 - 2000). NOTE: ISBN Number 0884861252, listed for convenience, is assigned to 1995 reprints of Bristol Park Books, NY . This copy in 167 pgs , 0 chapters: Chapter 1, Through the Foothills; 2, In Camp on the North Fork of the Merced; 3, The Yosemite; 4, Mount Hoffman & Lake Tenaya; 5, The Middle Ranges; 6. A Strange Experienfe; 6, The Mono Trail; 7, Up to the Highest Sierra Trail; 8, Bloody Canyon & Mono Lake; 9, Bloody Canyon & Mono Lake; 10, Along the East Side of the Crest Trail; 11, The Tuolumne Camp; and 14, Back to the Lowlands. Richard Kauffman (Photographer) (illustrator).…

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1949. First Edition. June, 1949 [Vol 34, No.6]. Original printed wrappers, 9" x 6". Photographs, sketches, charts, map. Minimal wear, near fine to fine, all around. Ektachrome frontis by William Hail of an Albicaulis tree, as well as numerous other b& w photos (32 pages of plates), as always, sketches, charts, map, as well. One of the new, thicker bulletins, in this case, 162 pp. Articles include: On A Wilderness Trail; Sierra Shorelines; Colonel Benson, Rover; Have You a Mountain Widow in Your Home ?; Oh, For the Life of a Packer !; Lightning and the Mountain; Roads in the National Parks; Sierra Snows - Past and Future; Still A Bugaboo; The Echo Lake Avalanches; Ancient Landscapes; A Children's Burro Trip; The Exploration and First Ascents of Mount McKinley; Matthes Crest; Winter Sports Possibilities in Mineral King; Will the Sierra Bighorn Survive ?; Expansion Anchors for Use in Rock Climbing; Seen From a Saddle; and regular departments. Sc1. From Photographs (illustrator).…