Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell & the Second Opening of the West.
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Providence, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Company Boston. Good+. 1954. Hardcover. 1954 first edition. No dust jacket. Shelf wear and rubbing to the spine edges and corners. Fading to the title on the front cover and spine. Corners lightly bumped. The binding is tight and the pages are free from marking or defects. The multi-fold panoramic map of the Grand Canyon is present inside the front cover.; 8.40 X 5.60 X 1.60 inches; 438 pages .
Synopsis
In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was. "This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose." —Ivan Doig
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- Bookseller
- Orrin Schwab Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25155
- Title
- Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell & the Second Opening of the West.
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company Boston
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- KG2, Western Americana, Westernexplore
Terms of Sale
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Postage is $4.00 for the first book. Books are returnable for full refund if not as described.
About the Seller
Orrin Schwab Books
Biblio member since 2005
Providence, Utah
About Orrin Schwab Books
Orrin Schwab Books has been selling used and rare books full-time for 14 years. I specialize in Americana, Western Americana, Military, Childrens, and Historical topics of all time periods and regions. I also sell scarce and rare children's books and general antiquarian titles.
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- Shelf Wear
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- Spine
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Rubbing
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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