Powell John Wesley Text (2 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition (Stated). A fine copy in a bright and fine price-intact dust jacket with one closed tear now in a protective mylar cover. [No International shipping on this item].

Hardcover. Condition: NEW- COLLECTIBLE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/trace spotting (acidic paper reaction) to front & rear covers verso. Gilt embossed beige linen boards (subsequent printings in orange cloth)/Fine. DJ under mylar/Fine. Collectible 1969, First Edition, First Thus. PLEASE NOTE: Published w/o ISBN ---ISBN: 0525095233, included for identification convenience only; 1970 marks the historic moment when ISBNs came to be! Record of Major John Wesley Powell's (1834 - 1902) 1869 journal, in 4 boats, 13-week Geographic Expedition down the Green & Colorado Rivers, marking the first passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell's diaries were first published in Scribner's Magazine. For this volume, the journal is edited & introduced by Don Fowler. Book, includes drawings & illustrations by Powell's contemporaries, and augmented w/ a 48-page gallery of 4-color photos from photographer Eliot Porter (1901 - 1990) who, since the 1940s, used Eastman Kodak's new dye transfer processes for color photography. Porter's Epilogue is a memorial to Glen Canyon, giving a new identify of Lake Powell, of Glen Canyon Dam. 168 pgs. in 7 chapters: 1, From Green River City to Flaming Gorge; 2, From Flaming Gorge to the Gate of Lodore; 3, The Canyon of Lordore; 4, From Echo Park to the Mouth of the Uinta River; 5, From the Mouth of the Uinta River to the Junction of the Grand and Green; 6, From the Junction of the Grand and Green to the Mouth of the Mouth of the Little Colorado; and 7, The Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Fine Copy. Eliot Porter (Photographer: The Canyons of the Colorado - Past & Present 1969) (illustrator). …