L. W. Currey, Inc.

SIERRA CLUB. 1948 BASE CAMP. 1948 Sierra Club Base Camp [cover title]. N.p., n.d. [1948]. 27.5x21 cm, pp. A1-A2 [two leaves with versos blank] [1] 2 [two leaves with versos blank] [1-6] [three leaves with versos blank] B1-2 C1-6 7-111 [112-116], [1] 2-18, mimeographed from typewritten copy, 7 plates with illustrations reproduced from photographs (including folded frontispiece with a color photograph by Richard Kauffman), 5 plates with drawings by Chiura Obata, other illustrations in text, pictorial wrappers, brown cloth tape spine. First edition. A keepsake of the 1948 Sierra Club Base Camp at Vidette Meadow in Kings Canyon National Park near the head waters of the South Fork of the Kings River. A miscellany of essays, poetry, and reports on the natural history of the region (including "Base Camp Botany, 1948" by John Thomas Howell). This miscellany includes an essay by Chiura Obata, "The Worship of the Great Nature," pages 101-107, illustrated with five of his drawings. Compiled under the general editorship of Oliver Kehrlein. A very good copy. (#179382).