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Published by Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1936
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good, plus some. See scans and description. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1936. The February, 1936 issue of the Sierra Club Bulletin, that being Volume XXI, Number I. 9 1/4" x 6 3/16", staple-bound wraps but with squared-off spine, 116 pp + ads + 25 image plates. Very Good, plus some; moderate stain toward top right of cover (scan), roughening at spine bottom (scan), no other flaws, contents Fine. Topics for this issue of the always content-rich SCB are The Trinity Alps, Mount Olympus National Park, Personal Recollections of John Muir, a One-Man Diamond Hitch, The First Ascent of Mount Humphreys From the East, Skiing on the East Side of the Sierra, Wetterstein and Dolomites Climbs, Part III of the Mount Whitney Story, and of course more. Writers include editor Francis P. Farquhar; Bestor Robinson; Hatfield Goudey; Robert B. Walkinshaw; William A. Magee; Robert L. Lipman; Norman B. Livermore, Jr.; H.R. Luck; Norman Clyde; Walter Mosauer; and Glen Dawson. Contributing photographers: Ansel Adams, David R. Brower; Richard M. Leonard; Homer D. Erwin; J.R. Dempster; Cedric Wright; W.E. Dassonville; Everett Griffin; W.W. Campbell; Anders Angstrom; and C.G. Abbot. Hours of the Club's best. For the collector, in collectible condition. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box; no bag. LSC2.
Published by Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1941
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Cedric Wright; David R. Brower; Weldon F. Heald; Henry E. Timby; David Burd; Raffi Bedayan; Spencer Austin; Richard M. Leonard; Thomas Morley; W.E. James (illustrator). 1st Edition. Near Fine - very. See scans and description. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1941. The February, 1941 issue of the Sierra Club Bulletin, that being Volume XXVI, Number 1. Tall octavo (9 1/4"), printed perfect-bound wraps, 193 pp. (158 pp. numbered, 34 plates, one onionskin). Quite Near Fine, with in fact no salient flaws to point to; this example is, in all likelihood, in the same condition in which it was originally received in 1941. See all scans. This issue feature a 16-plate section of majestic photos of the King's Canyon National Park by Cedric Wright (as well as two other Wright plates elsewhere); a fold-out reproduced map of the San Joaquin Valley, originally created by Lieutenant Jose Maria Estudillo in 1819; and onionskin foldout map of the Mt. Whitney Region, executed by the Sierra Club itself, new for this issue; an 1875 article on the King's River Valley by John Muir, originally published in The Daily Evening Bulletin; two 1875 photos by W.E. James which may be the first photographs ever taken in the King's Canyon National Park; sketch-illustrated pieces on climbing and camping; and a lot more. See scan of contents page. Photographers: Cedric Wright; David R. Brower; Weldon F. Heald; Henry E. Timby; David Burd; Raffi Bedayan; Spencer Austin; Richard M. Leonard; Thomas Morley; W.E. James. Writers of the above-mentioned pieces and others on Mountain Wind, King's River Sierra, Mount Avon, End of the Rope, High and Dry, Little Gem Company, Snowpatch, the legislative history of Sequoia and King's Canyon National Park, Botany, Mountain Photography, and Mountaineering Notes include: Francis P. Farquhar; John Muir; Ansel Adams; Joseph N. LeConte; Norman Livermore; Charlotte E. Mauk; Weldon F. Heald; Blanche Stallings; Fritz Lippmann; John Thomas Howell; May Pridham; Cedric Wright; Bestor Robinson; Leland Curtis; John D. and Ruth Mendenhall; Arthur B. Johnson; Braeme Gigas; Howard Koster. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LSC2.