The Sierra Nevada: the range of light edited by Roderick Peattie with an introduction by Donald Culross Peattie. New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1947]. 23x14.8 cm, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-398, 26 illustrations on 17 plates including frontispiece and integral title page spread, folded map in pocket on rear paste-down, original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown and black. First edition. A collection of monographs on the human and natural history of the range comprising: "Sierra Panorama" by Weldon F. Heald, "Empire in the Sky" by Weldon F. Heald, "'On a Trail of Beauty'" by Lester Rowntree, "The Trees and Forests" by Mary Tresidder, "A Geologist's View" by François E. Matthes, "Winter Sports" by David R. Brower, "Mother Lode Folk" by Idwal Jones, "Some Birds of the Sierra Nevada" by Charles Albert Harwell, "Sierra Climate" by Richard Joel Russell, and "Yosemite, a Mecca for Mountaineers" by Oliver Kehrlein. Robinson 17. Mild abrasion to front paste-down where a bookplate was removed, a very good, clean copy in very good dust jacket with wear along top and bottom edges. (#167917).
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