New York: Putnam, 1936. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes accounts of trips to Alaska, Chicago, the Pacific Northwest, the Southwest, Mexico, and especially many trips of excursions around California, including the Mother Lode country of the Sierra Foothills, the high Sierras, the desert and more. Illustrated with many photographs. Presentation copy INSCRIBED by the author to Howard L. Rowe, Madera County Superintendent of Schools and dated in 1941. 241 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book about the "quintessential American desert . .. Stretching from the outskirts of Los Angeles to the psychic fringes of Las Vegas, it contains such archetypal American spots as Death Valley, Edwards Air Force Base, Joshua Tree National Park, and the Panamint Mountains (where the forty-niners found silver and the Manson family prepared for Helter Skelter)" and one uniquely defined by the automobile. INSCRIBED on a preliminary page to Oklahoma collector Larry Owens "A midwestern desert afficionado like many of the people described in this book" and dated in the year of publication. Selected bibliography, index. 337 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8050-16317.