The cabin by Stewart Edward White illustrated with photographs by the author. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911. 21.2x14.1 cm (octavo), pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-282 [283] [284-288: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], 17 inserted plates, original pictorial gray green cloth, front panel stamped in white, black and orange, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge gilt, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Sierra vignettes, emphasizing mountain philosophy, woodcraft, natural history, and wilderness travel, unified by an account of the renovation of a cabin on Whiskey Ridge in the San Joaquin High Sierra. Includes some account of White's travels in the Sierra back country. Francis P. Farquhar, "The Literature of the High Sierra," Book Club of California Quarterly News-Letter, (December 1934), page 8, comments: "... White's books: THE MOUNTAINS (1904), THE PASS (1906), THE CABIN (1911), are full of the spirit of the High Sierra and should certainly be on the list" of books on the Sierra back country to be included in a well-chosen library. A fine copy in very good dust jacket. (#166124).
"PUBLISHED, APRIL, 1911" on copyright page.