L. W. Currey, Inc.

UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Circular of general information regarding Yosemite National Park[,] California ... open all year 1931 [cover title]. [Washington, D. C.]: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1931. 23.3x15 cm, pp. i-vi 1-83 [84: blank], 4 illustrations (on covers), 1 birdseye view and 4 maps (1 folded), original pictorial cream wrappers printed in black, side stapled. At head of title: "United States Department of the Interior / Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary / National Park Service / Horace M. Albright, Director." Provides general information about Yosemite National Park, rules and regulations for the park, approved 8 December 1930, and "authorized rates for public utilities, season of 1931," which provides detailed information on goods and services provided by hotels, lodges and camps, stores, transportation and other services within the park. The birdseye view and maps are: "Bird's-eye view of Yosemite Valley looking eastward to the crest of the Sierra Nevada," "Automobile guide map showing roads in the Yosemite Valley," which includes visitor services and points of interest, "Automobile routes," showing motor routes to western National Parks, "Map of Yosemite National Park" (folded), dated 1931, and "Railroad routes," to western National Parks. Light wear to wrappers, shallow chip from lower spine end, a very good copy. These booklets are chock full of interesting statistics and park history and are underrated as resource material, and they are now uncommon. (#168342).