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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/Very Good+. First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with brown lettering, camel illustration on cover; brown title box on spine; light soiling to rear board. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean map-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated. Size approx. 7" x 10-1/2". Seventh book in the Stanford Transportation Series, designed by Arthur Lites, composed in Linotype Granjon type, printed and bound on the Stanford Campus. Calligraphic initials and titles were freely drawn from Legend type, with certain modifications introduced to heighten the allusion to Arabic script. 93 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, a few tiny closed edge tears, very light soiling. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An historical account of the role camels played in the Western United States. Following the war with Mexico, the United States considered the use of camels to solve the difficult problems of transportation in the arid Southwest. A Navy ship was modified for carrying the camels and a commission was sent abroad to purchase camels at various Levantine ports. By 1857, two shiploads had been landed in Texas and in the subsequent years both Arabian and Bactrian camels were used extensively for the carrying of supplies and express and the pioneering of new routes between Texas and California.