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  • Barr, Nevada.
    HIGH COUNTRY.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Putnam, (2004.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - this one set at the Ahwahnee Hotel in California's Yosemite Park, where Pigeon has gone undercover to unravel the disappearance of four young seasonal employees. ISBN: 0-399-151443.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 37628
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  • NATURAL CONNECTIONS: Photographs by Paula Chamlee Accompanied by Selections from her Journals. by Chamlee, Paula; Estelle Jussim, introduction.
    Chamlee, Paula; Estelle Jussim, introduction.
    NATURAL CONNECTIONS: Photographs by Paula Chamlee Accompanied by Selections from her Journals.

    Edition: First printing.

    Revere, Pennsylvania: Lodima Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The artist's first book, a collection of 42 striking black and white photographs most rooted in the American southwest and west, printed one to a page each with a blank facing page, and interspersed with selections from her journals. Introductory essay by Estelle Jussim. Large oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-960564667.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (stamp on front endpaper, a bit of sunning to the dj)

    Book ID: 82997
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  • LOOKING FOR MO. by Duane, Daniel.
    Duane, Daniel.
    LOOKING FOR MO.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (third book) one which takes the reader inside the world of big-wall rock climbing. SIGNED on the title page. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-374190836.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 64015
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  • LAMBS IN MARCH and Other Essays. by Greene, Anne Bosworth (1878-1961)
    Greene, Anne Bosworth (1878-1961)
    LAMBS IN MARCH and Other Essays.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: Century Co, (1928). Hardcover first edition - A collection of ten essays, including an account of her childhood in England in the 1880s, others on animals (one of taking their cat on the train with her daughter). Perhaps most noteworthy are two essays on Yosemite (one on sketching there and the other on Clouds Rest) and another called "Attempting Yellowstone." Ironically, considering the fact that several of these essays are about her life as an artist, this is illustrated with small drawings - decorations - by Katharine E Gray and not Greene herself. 274 pp.

    Condition: Very good overall in sage green cloth with navy blue lettering, gilt bands on front cover (bookplate, corners slightly bumped and frayed)

    Book ID: 61079
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  • SCENES OF WONDER AND CURIOSITY IN CALIFORNIA: Illustrated with Over One Hundred Engravings. A Tourist's Guide to the Yo-Semite Valley by Hutchings, J. M.
    Hutchings, J. M.
    SCENES OF WONDER AND CURIOSITY IN CALIFORNIA: Illustrated with Over One Hundred Engravings. A Tourist's Guide to the Yo-Semite Valley

    Edition: Third edition, first printing.

    New York and San Francisco: A. Roman and Company, 1870. Hardcover - Also 'to the Big Tree Groves - the Natural Caves and Bridges - the Quicksilver Mines of New Almaden and Henriquita - Mount Shasta' and more. Originally published in 1860, this third edition is significantly expanded, revised and updated. Illustrated with wood-engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, two maps and 102 illustrations in text. 292 pp plus 4 pp publisher's advertisements.

    Condition: Fair condition overall in original dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover - some fraying to ends and sides of spine, wear to corners of boards, front hinge cracked with front free endpaper detached but present. Text is clean and very readable. Overall a reasonably attractive copy of an uncommon and important early book about the natural wonders of California.

    Book ID: 42011
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  • THE MULE MEN: A History of Stock Packing in the Sierra Nevada. by Jackson, Louise A.
    Jackson, Louise A.
    THE MULE MEN: A History of Stock Packing in the Sierra Nevada.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press, (2004). SIGNED first edition - A book which covers two hundred years, from the 1750s to the 1950s, of stock packing in the southern Sierra Nevada, the backcountry containing most of California's wilderness and national park lands - from From Yosemite to the Tehachapis, the Tuolumne River to the Kern, lands which are above and beyond any major roadways, the wild areas where the majority of the modern Sierra packers have plied their trade. Illustrated throughout with photographs. SIGNED on the title page. Includes several appendices listing historical pack outfits, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-878424997.

    Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease on front cover).

    Book ID: 88465
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  • RIVER LIGHT: Poems. by Olander, J. C. (Chris)
    Olander, J. C. (Chris)
    RIVER LIGHT: Poems.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Poetic Matrix Press, (2017). SIGNED first edition - Collection of poems by this Northern California writer, rooted in the natural world and most evoking the Sierras and California - from the American River to Yosemite. SIGNED on the title page. 110 pp plus author biography. ISBN: 978-0998146959.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 78300
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  • [Sierra Club] LeComte, Joseph; Matthes, Francois; Colby William Edward and others.
    SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN, Vol IX, No 1, January 1913.

    Edition: First printing in wrappers.

    San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1913. First edition - Publication No. 47 of the Sierra Club. Includes' Little Studies in the Yosemite Valley' by Francois E Matthes; 'The Soda Springs Property in the Tuolumne Meadows' by Joseph Le Conte; 'A Lightning Struck Tree in Kern Canon' by Willis Linn Jepson; 'National Parks--The Need of the Future' by James Bryce; Milestone Mountain and a New Kings-Kern Pass by William Colby and more. Illustrated with many photographs; advertisements including one for 'tramping boots' and others for railroads. 83 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in printed peach colored wrappers.

    Book ID: 23923
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  • [Sierra Club) Robbins, Royal; Brower, David; Colby, Will; Hyde, Philip and others.
    SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN, Vol 45, No 9, December 1960.

    Edition: First printing in wrappers.

    Washington, D.C.: The Sierra Club, 1960. First edition - Includes an article on climbing El Capitan by Royal Robbins, a section of photographs on endangered places by Philip Hyde with text by Brower, an article on scenic roads and more. Illustrated with photographs throughout. 92pp.

    Condition: Near fine in printed green wrappers.

    Book ID: 28965
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  • ENGINEERING EDEN: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature. by Smith, Jordan Fisher.
    Smith, Jordan Fisher.
    ENGINEERING EDEN: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Crown, (2016). First edition - Using the civil trial which attempted to recover damages after 25 yearold Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, this book becomes a larger account of the history of the environmental movement in the US and "the futile, sometimes fatal, attempts to remake wilderness in the name of preserving it. . . virtually every attempt to manage nature in the parks has only created cascading effects that require even more management." Focusing on Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier national parks, this book looks at the paradox of our natural parks which have a dual obligation to provide services and recreation for visitors and to preserve nature. Notes, 362 pp.

    Condition: Just about fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 81599
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  • Steele, David M.
    GOING ABROAD OVERLAND: Studies of Places and People in the Far West.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, 1917. Hardcover first edition - Accounts based on three transnational journeys by train from Philadelphia, where the author is the rector of the Church of St Luke and the Epiphany, to the West - among the places described are Lake Tahoe, the Grand Canyon, the Dakotas, Jasper National Park in Canada, Yellowstone, and more. Photographs, fold out map tipped in at back. 197 pp

    Condition: Good in dark red cloth with gilt lettering (some wear to the covers, rear hinge cracked, previous owner's name.

    Book ID: 30438
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  • CARLETON WATKINS: Making the West American by [Watkin, Carleton, 1829-1916] Green, Tyler
    [Watkin, Carleton, 1829-1916] Green, Tyler
    CARLETON WATKINS: Making the West American

    Edition: First printing.

    Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2018). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An award-winning book which looks at the influence Carleton Watkins had in shaping American thought. He is " widely considered the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century and arguably the most influential artist of his era. . . Watkins made his first trip to Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. His photographs of Yosemite were exhibited in New York for the first time in 1862, as news of the Unions disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg was landing in newspapers and while the Matthew Brady Studios horrific photographs of Antietam were on view. Watkinss work tied the West to Northern…

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    Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2018). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An award-winning book which looks at the influence Carleton Watkins had in shaping American thought. He is " widely considered the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century and arguably the most influential artist of his era. . . Watkins made his first trip to Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. His photographs of Yosemite were exhibited in New York for the first time in 1862, as news of the Unions disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg was landing in newspapers and while the Matthew Brady Studios horrific photographs of Antietam were on view. Watkinss work tied the West to Northern cultural traditions and played a key role in pledging the once-wavering West to Union. Motivated by Watkinss pictures, Congress would pass legislation, later signed by Abraham Lincoln, that preserved Yosemite as the prototypical 'national park,' the first such act of landscape preservation in the world." SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs throughout (list of illustrations at front of book). Notes, bibliography, index.xvii, 574 pp. ISBN: 978-0520287983.

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    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 80477
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