Berkshires

The American Mountain Series is similar in some ways to the much larger and better-known Rivers of America series. Instead of individual authors for each book, the Mountains books are anthologies of essays--for The Berkshires the essayist are Walter Prichard Eaton, A. Kenneth Simpson, George J. Wallace, Bartless Hendrick, Theodore Giddings, Haydn Mason,m Will Sl Annin, and Margaret Cresson

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1948. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 414 pages, plus many black-and-white illustrations throughout; book very gently used, only light traces of shelf and reading wear, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ rubbed, chipped at spine and hinge ends. See also our listing for Wallace Nutting's classic Massachusetts… Read more about this item

Vanguard, 1948. Very Good. Peattie, Roderick (Editor). The Berkshires: The Purple Hills. NY: Vanguard, 1948. 414pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Beige cloth with red and green embossing. Book condition: Very good. Gently bumped edges and small moisture stains on page edges near spine ends. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Lightly rubbed and chipped. In dust jacket protector.