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Soft cover. Condizione: 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 (illustratore). 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.

Wraps. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Stitched wraps. 9" x 6". 28 pages. Tan printed wraps. Soiled front cover. Covers are split on the joints and mostly detached (or probably will detach upon handling). Interior contents are clean. No physical copies located in OCLC as of 12/23.

Condizione: Good. - Octavo, 9-7/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover, light grey printed wraps. Apparently bound by the publisher in the incorrect wrappers, with corrections penned in ink by an early owner to match the information on the title page. The edges of the covers are chipped with a few short tears. and the head & tail of the spine are chipped with a small piece out from the head of the spine. viii & 456 deckle-edged pages, illustrated with 3 folding charts from the "U.S. Coast Survey / A.D. Bache, superintendent". The charts depict: "Approximate Cotidal Lines / Sailing Lines and Lines of Equal Hieght of Tides / of the Atlantic Coast of the United States From Investigations in the Coast Survey. 1857", "Diagrams of Winds at San Diego and San Francisco California and Astoria Oregon, from Observations by the U.S. Coast Survey 1857", and "Measurement of Epping Base Maine 1857". Several page corners are slightly creased. Very good. Included is an article by John LeConte, M.D. "On the Influence of Musical Sounds on the Flame of a Jet of Coal-Gas" [pages 62 through 67]; R.W. Haskins, A.M. on "The Open North Polar Sea" [pages 84 through 91]; J.D. Dana's "Agassiz's Contributions to the Natural History of the United States" [pages 202 through 216 and 321 through 341]; W.P. Blake on "The Chalchihuitl of the ancient Mexicans: its locality and association, and its identity with Turquois" [pages 227 through 232]; H. James Clark's "Recapitulation of the 'Embryology of the Turtle' as given in Professor Agassiz's 'Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America" [pages 342 through 357]; I.I. Hayes on "The Passage to the North Pole" [pages 384 through 392]; and the "Fifth Supplement to Dana's Mineralogy; by the Author".